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+title: 2024-11-04 Waku Weekly
+tags:
+  - waku-updates
+date: 2024-11-04
+---
+## [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] message transfer protocol and integration with sync
+    - [research] More store sync investigations
+  - next:
+    - [research] encoding optimization, metrics, logs, spec
+    - [research] Continue with store sync testing, update test plan
+
+## [Milestone - Static Sharding - dedicated shards](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/31)
+
+- [Telemetry: Measure Bandwidth](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/195)
+  - achieved: [chat] updated NetworkMonitor
+
+- [Sharding peer management and discovery hardening](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/172)
+  - achieved: [chat] add option to specify prefered peers for filter [feat: add option to specify preferred peers for filter](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/pull/1250) and [fix_: simple bad peer check logic for lightmode](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5964)
+
+## [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] [Support for discovery of circuit-relay peers](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/2514)
+    - [nwaku] [feat: adding waku_dial_peer and get_connected_peers to libwaku](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3149)
+    - [nwaku] [feat: running periodicaly peer exchange if discv5 is disabled](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3150)
+    - [nwaku] [fix: libwaku's dns discovery multiaddresses](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3155)
+    - [nwaku] [chore: naming connect procedure](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/pull/3157)
+    - [nwaku] [feat_: dial, drop and retrieve connected peers](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/6013)
+    - [nwaku] [feat: supporting peer exchange with nwaku](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5983)
+
+## [Milestone: Incentivise running a Waku infrastructure node](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/35)
+
+- [Service Incentivisation - Pay for RLN provision PoC](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/245)
+  - achieved:
+    - [research] start working on service incentivization PoC
+    - [research] Started investigating private payments with SP1
+  - next:
+    - [research] continue with the PoC; prepare for team discussions at the Bangkok offsite
+    - [research] Evaluate feasibility (circom vs sp1 performance)
+
+## [Milestone: Bandwidth optimization and protocol review](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/31)
+
+- [Status usage of Waku scaling and bandwidth optimization recommendation](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/197)
+  - achieved: [chat] test the bandwidth difference between relay and light mode [Bandwidth Usage Between Relay and Light](https://www.notion.so/Bandwidth-Usage-Between-Relay-and-Light-12a8f96fb65c802489f3eef02fb952a4)
+
+- [Review usage of content topics in Status Chat and Communities protocol](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/198)
+  - achieved:
+    - [chat] phase2 of content-topic change for communities [feat_: use content-topic override for all community filters](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5993)
+    - [research] draft PR opened for phase-2 changes [feat_: use content-topic override for all community filters](https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/5993)
+
+### [Milestone: Demonstrate product-market fit](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/36)
+
+- [Customer Interviews](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/251)
+  - achieved: Had a meeting with one of the gaming projects, in doubt if there’s a fit;
+  - next: interviewing a network states project;
+
+- [Co-design sessions](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/252)
+  - achieved:
+    - have a soft commitment to co-design with one of the gaming projects
+    - another soft commitment to co-design with an L2
+    - Co-designing with an Activism/Privacy project
+
+### [Milestone: Acquire first 10 customers](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/milestone/37)
+
+- [5-10 Highly qualified leads](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/254)
+  - achieved:
+    - Got Waku a workshop in the Credible intents event
+      - This should help find more leads in the intents vertical;
+    - We have confirmation that one project in the activism vertical is integrating Waku and they shared the use case document with us;
+
+- [Review current integrations](https://github.com/waku-org/pm/issues/255)
+  - achieved:
+    - [chat] Devcon, Qaku improvement (progress on integrating Codex for persistency, fixing issues)
+    - [chat] Devcon portal - integrating UCANs based authentication
+
+## Other Work
+
+### Maintenance
+
+- next:
+  - [nwaku] prepare Rust app for devcon workshop
+  - [nwaku] [Bump vendor dependencies for release 0.34.0](https://github.com/waku-org/nwaku/issues/3087) Vendor version upgrades are finished. Major achievement having latest web3, eth and libp2p libraries in nim-waku. Under review and testing.
+
+### Bugs
+
+- achieved: [chat] investigate various issues reported by status QA wrt message reliability and slow recovery after disconnections [Significant delay or missing messages on 4G in community (without re-login or app closure)](https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/21172) and [Messages are slow and some of them are marked as not delivered (1-1 chat between relay/light) when devise time is async](https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/21497)