Waku weekly 2025-01-27 (#170)

* create waku weekly 2025-01-27

* docs: research update

* nwaku update

* chat updates

* js-waku update

* cleanup

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Co-authored-by: Hanno Cornelius <68783915+jm-clius@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Ivan Folgueira Bande <ivansete@status.im>
Co-authored-by: pablo <p.lopez.lpz@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sasha <oleksandr@status.im>

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+title: 2025-01-27 Waku Weekly
+tags:
+  - waku-updates
+date: 2025-01-27
+---
+## [Milestone - Scale one-to-one chats and app protocols](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/40)
+
+- [Specify one-to-one protocol stack](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/285)
+  - achieved: [chat] summary on how the [encryption works in Status](https://www.notion.so/How-Encryption-Works-in-Status-1838f96fb65c8097a61fcf14096c75aa)
+
+## [Milestone - Store Service Upgrade](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/28)
+
+- [Store v3 - store synchronisation](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/132)
+  - achieved: [research] several PRs updates and fixes
+  - next: [research] merge final PRs to complete ync 2.0 feature
+
+## [Milestone - RLN Mainnet](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/34)
+
+- [Pay for RLN provision first PoC](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/207)
+  - achieved: [research] implemented Anvil-based testing and addressed comments, [PR](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3166) merged
+  - next: [research] outline next steps for the incentivization PoC
+
+- [Implement RLN smart contract for paid, multilevel memberships](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/256)
+  - achieved: [research] started integrating new contract in nwaku 
+  - next: [research] plan the rest of the required work to point nwaku to new contract instance 
+
+- [RLNv2 Web management interface](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/281)
+  - next: [js-waku] [preliminary investigation of RLN Contract](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2218)
+
+## [Milestone: Nwaku in Status Desktop](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/33)
+
+- [Nwaku in Status Desktop](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/203)
+  - achieved:
+    - [nwaku] Enhance integration of `waku-go-bindings` in external applications
+      - https://github.com/waku-org/waku-go-bindings/pull/17
+      - https://github.com/waku-org/waku-go-bindings/pull/18
+      - https://github.com/waku-org/waku-go-bindings/pull/20
+  - next:
+    - [nwaku] Continue with the integration of waku-go-bindings into status-go
+
+## [Milestone: Bandwidth optimization and protocol review](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/31)
+
+- [Review usage of content topics in Status Chat and Communities protocol](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/268)
+  - achieved: [chat] merged PR for phase-1 changes for single content-topic in status communities [#5864](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5864)
+
+## [Maintenance H1 2025](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/275)
+- achieved:
+  - [nwaku] Fixed outstanding bug of Store usage with SQLite: https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3244
+  - [nwaku] Fixed failing interop tests:
+    - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3248
+    - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3249
+  - [nwaku] Capping max-connections [#3184](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3184)
+  - [nwaku] REST API and RLN sync - Resolve RLN Syncing Issue: Investigate and address RLN syncing issues with the REST API [#3220](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/3220).
+  - [nwaku] Kickstart RLN learning
+- next:
+  - [nwaku] New v.35.0 release
+  - [nwaku] js-waku - nwaku interoperability test stabilization
+  - [nwaku] Enhance filter issues (needed by Railgun) - facing test issues
+    - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/3192
+    - https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/3191
+  - [nwaku] [deprecate tree sync strategy](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2924)
+  - [js-waku] [decrease latency during core operations by removing dependency on PeerStore](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2232)
+  - [js-waku] [js-waku - nwaku interoperability investigations](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2176)
+  - [js-waku] [update test artifact dependency in CI](https://github.com/waku-org/js-waku/issues/2220)