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+title: 2024-05-15 Waku Weekly
+tags:
+  - waku-updates
+date: 2024-05-15
+---
+
+## Research Milestones
+
+[Store Incentivisation](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/23)
+- Status: In Progress
+- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/17
+  - in-progress:
+    - [nwaku] [feat: experimental incentivize store protocol](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1961)
+
+[RLN in resource-restricted clients](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/159)
+- Status: In Progress
+- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/18/views/1
+  - achieved: PR for message validation in lightpush before relaying.
+  - next: continue lightpush attaching RLN proofs to messages received from clients.
+
+[RLNv2](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/163)
+- Status: In Progress
+- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/21/views/1
+  - achieved: Test implementation WIP.
+  - next:
+    - Continue planning for next waku fork (RLNv2 + onchain root/proofs) See: https://github.com/waku-org/research/issues/96 (future section). RLN v2 testing. New smart contract with both features. Prepare presentation for DLT conference.
+    - Test implementation continued and testing.
+
+[Store v3 - Waku Sync](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/21)
+- Status: In Progress
+- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/20/views/1
+  - achieved:
+    - Explored if there is a way to prune the negentropy storage based on timestamp.
+    - Ttype state machine implementation and pruning mechanism.
+  - next:
+    - write subrange wrappers for negentropy and use subranges to sync.
+    - using hashes to fill the archive with the missing messages.
+
+[Store v3 - message hashes](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/20)
+- Status: In Progress
+- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/16/views/1
+  - achieved:
+    - bug fixes
+  - next:
+    - fix compatability with Waku sync
+
+## Engineering Milestones
+
+[Composing Waku Protocols to Improve Reliability](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/114)
+- Status: In Progress
+- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/9/views/1
+  - completed:
+    - [js-waku] [refine Filter](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1890)
+    - [js-waku] [chore: protocol implementations in @waku/core should be as unopinionated as possible](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1886)
+    - [js-waku] [feat: SDK for redundant usage of filter/lightpush](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1463)
+    - [js-waku] [bug: lightPush is not able to keep node connections](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1966)
+    - [js-waku] [https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2002](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2002)
+  - in-progress:
+    - [js-waku] [feat: peer management for protocols (with disconnection management)](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2002)
+  - next:
+    - [js-waku] [investigate suspended js-waku in suspended mode](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2000)
+    
+[DOS protection for req-res protocols and metrics](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/66)
+- Status: In Progress
+- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/11/views/1
+  - completed:
+    - [nwaku] [chore: Address more attack vectors in rate limiting non-relay protocols](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2589)
+  - in-progress:
+    - [nwaku] [feat: Rate limit phase#3 - peer request rate registration and prioritization](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2683)
+    - [nwaku] [feat: Proper bandwidth metrics per shard](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1945)
+    - [nwaku] [feat: Enforce service specific rate limits](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2032)
+  - next:
+    - [nwaku] [feat: Failsafe mechanism (guide) for BW limiting](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1946)
+
+[Bindings](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/121)
+- Status: In Progress
+- Project: https://github.com/orgs/waku-org/projects/6/views/6
+  - [nwaku] [chore: support setting DiscV5 and DNS-discovery in libwaku](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2455)
+
+## Other Work
+
+### Bugs
+
+#### In Progress
+
+- [js-waku] [feat: map/use correct bootstrap nodes fleet according to the configured pubsub topic](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2011)
+- [js-waku] [test: create scripts for running light-push/filter and measuring ratio of messages sent and received](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2007)
+- [nwaku] [bug: flaky test fails on MacOS](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2701)
+- [nwaku] [bug: nwaku <> js-waku interop tests failing](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2621)
+- [nwaku] [bug: Peer Reconnection not working?](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2592)
+- [nwaku] [bug: build error on new AMD cpu's (ubuntu 22.04 LTS)](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2560)
+- [nwaku] [bug/regression: node ca be started on multiple clusters](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2552)
+
+#### Next
+
+- [js-waku] [bug: ApplicationInfo to PubsubTopic doesn't take clusterId into consideration](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1902)
+- [nwaku] [bug: Deserialization error on POST /relay/v1/auto/messages with ephemeral field in body](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2643)
+- [nwaku] [bug: running testwaku can hang in some cases of UPnP or nat-pmp networking](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2628)
+- [nwaku] [bug: Store REST API returns invalid digest](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2615)
+- [nwaku] [bug: autosharding resolves content topics to wrong shard](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2538)
+
+### Enhancements
+
+#### In Progress
+
+- [js-waku] [feat: map/use correct bootstrap nodes fleet according to the configured pubsub topic](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2011)
+- [nwaku] [feat: light protocol tester application](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2700)
+
+#### Next
+
+- [js-waku] [feat: improve reuse of pubsub/content topic configuration](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/1814)
+- [js-waku] [feat: better developer experience](https://github.com/waku-org/js-rln/issues/76)
+- [nwaku] [feat: RLN-proofs as a lightpush service](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2593)
+- [nwaku] [Add a flag to require minimum number of peers to publish a message on relay](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/1004)
+
+## Ecosystem Development
+
+### BD
+
+- Qualified two leads
+- Advanced one lead toward deal 
+- Set up two meetings with potential partners
+
+### Dev Rel
+
+- The Waku Network hit 500 nodes - yay!
+- Events page update 
+- The Graph blog article draft
+- The Graph interview 
+
+### Comms and Events
+
+- X: +489
+- Linkedin: +7
+- Discord: +44
+- Waku intro finalized - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIWx5Vp_Qxk 
+- 2 “how to run nodes” tutorials went live 
+- Published Montly newsletter   
+- Railgun interview went live
+- Builder Spotlight went live 
+
+### Docs
+
+- Implemented a script on waku.org for automatic creation and updating of the specs section
+- Submitted a pull request to the specs repository to fix broken links and adjust the front matter
+- Got the specs repo PR approved and merged Follow up with Hanno on [RFC website](https://github.com/waku-org/waku.org/pull/76#issuecomment-2090271892) plans Added high level overview of waku simulation results