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2025 H2 Roadmap
Roadmap, milestones and FURPS for 2025 H2
2025-06-10 22:00:16 +10:00

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Introduce Mixnet For Message Sending

Estimated date of completion: 30 Sep 2025

Resources Required for 2025H2:

  • 1 core research engineer for 3 months

A PoC implementation to improve anonymity in Waku message publishing by mixing Waku Lightpush requests and responses.

FURPS (see deliverables)

GitHub Milestone and deliverables:

Integrate libp2p mix into lightpush

Owner: core research

Feature: Mix

FURPS:

  • F1. Relay nodes can mount mixnet protocol, acting as entry, exit or mixnet nodes.
  • F2. Nodes can discover mixnet relay and exit nodes using available peer discovery mechanisms.
  • F3. Client nodes can send light push requests over the mixnet before delivery to a service node.
  • F4. Client nodes can receive a response to a light push request over the mixnet.

Checklist:

  • Specs: link to specs
  • Code: link to GitHub issues/PRs/Epic
  • Dogfood: link to dogfooding session/artefact
  • Docs: links to README.md or docs.waku.org (TBD)