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Milestones Presentation (Half-Year to Dec-2025): Waku
🧭 Key Outcome(s) of Vision you are supporting
- Create Chat SDK MVP - one-to-one (Browser, Nim, Rust, Golang), support Status' technical roadmap, supports Logos Movement and Logos Core by enabling secure conversations over Waku
- Simplify a reliable Waku API and SDK (Browser, Nim, Rust, Golang), supports Chat SDK, Logos Movement and Logos Core, make it is easy to integrate
- Improve Waku Developer Experience by stabilizing The Waku Network and reviewing Docs: Support Logos Movement, make it is easy to integrate
- Deploy metrics to measure Waku and any Waku app's level of adoption: Support measuring success of Logos Movement
- Introduce mixnet for message sending: Support Logos Vision of a private technology stack
- Formalize and Expand Waku Web Apps: Support Logos Movement on teaching them how to hunt
- Integrate RLN with Waku API: Supports Chat SDK, and Logos Movement to make it easy it to integrate Waku RLN.
- Streamline DevEx: Mobile, and Web dev, supporting Status to have nwaku and chat sdk on mobile, provide tooling to make it easy to integrate js-waku
- Extend Chat SDK with Group conversations: ditto create chat sdk
- Nim Usage Improvement: Dedicate time to improve nim usage (nimble usage, iterate on ffi api, study nimsuggest behaviour): to improve nwaku contributor experience, enable all goals above and make it easy to contribute
- Continue Waku Incentivization: Finish Light push PoC and define next step, to make Waku infrastructure decentralized and sustainable, as per Logos Vision
Strategy changes:
- New Chat protocol over adapting existing code and protocol (justification)
- Prioritized simplifying Waku API/SDK, to enable Chat SDK but also "make it easy to integrate"
- Prioritized RLN API/SDK, to use with Chat SDK and have early RLN integration in the Chat stack (this time)
- De-prioritized nwaku on mobile in favour of Waku API and RLN API
- Increased commitment to build applications over Waku (Web and Logos Core), to "teach them how to hunt"
- Introduced Developer Experience items: to support Chat SDK, and "make it easy to integrate"
- Nim Usage Improvement: increased priority to support new chat sdk, and "make it easy to contribute"
- De-scoped any Communities or existing Status chat protocol work, apart from e2e reliability as it is a re-usable block for Chat SDK.
- RLN Mainnet is a long term goal, focused instead of smaller, achievable items that enable integration and dogfooding of RLN.
🚩 Proposed Milestones(s)
| Milestone Headline | Strategic Objective | Capacity* | Business Val (0/10) | FURPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Define Incentivisation for RLNaaS | Logos Vision: Core Values Alignment | 1.5 | 7 | TODO |
| Improve DevEx: API, TWN, Metrics, Docs | Logos Movement Community Enabling via Dev-X + Telemetry | TODO | 8 | FU__+ |
| Introduce mixnet for message sending | Logos Vision: Core Values Alignment | 1 | 6 | |
| Formalize and Expand Waku Web Apps | Logos Movement Community Enabling | 1.5 | 7 | |
| Create Chat SDK MVP | Logos Movement Module Build Out | 3 | 9 | |
| Integrate RLN with Waku API | Logos Movement Module Build Out | 0.5 | 9 | |
| Streamline DevEx: Mobile, Rust and Web dev | Logos Movement Community Enabling via Dev-X | TBD | 9 | |
| Extend Chat SDK with Group Conversations | Logos Movement Module Build Out | 9 | ||
| Incentivisation follow-up (write outline) | Logos Vision: Core Values Alignment | TBD | 7 | |
| Nim Usage Improvements | Logos Movement Community Enabling: Dev Journey | 5 | TBD |
🧩 Strategic Benefits Realisable from coming Half-Year (Top 5)
- Logos Vision - Core Values Alignment: Progress on making Waku sustainably scalable, resilient, private and censorship-resistant.
TODO: more like above
Sustainable, scalable, secure and usable Chat protocol: Enables anyone to build private native chat application, and set sustainable foundations for Status application.
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Deliver better APIs and SDKs: Broadens utility of Waku protocol, including RLN, enable building desktop, browser and mobile app using a unified, simple, Waku and RLN API.
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Waku web apps: demonstrate how to build on Waku, and iterate on dev ex and UX of Waku APIs and protocols, including RLN.
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Introduce mixnet: Deliver on our promise of network level anonymity, starting with sender anonymity.
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Improve Nim usage: improve the efficiency of Waku nim developers, to better delivery our commitments and "make it easy to contribute".
🚩 Key Cross Project Alignments (Top-5)
| Project / Community | Specific | Confirmed with Project(Yes/No) |
|---|---|---|
| Status Application | Create Chat SDK MVP, Extend Chat SDK, Integrate RLN w/ Waku API | Yes |
| Logos Core | Formalize and Expand Waku Web Apps: Logos core app | Pending |
| Logos Movement | Formalize and Expand Waku Web Apps: Forum | Yes |
| Status Application | Streamline DevEx: Mobile | Yes |
| Codex | Formalize and Expand Waku Web Apps: More Codex Integrations | Pending |
| Status L2 | Integrate RLN With the Waku API: Deploy SC on Sepolia | Yes |
🚩 Key Cross Project/Shared Service Dependency (Top-5)
| Project | Specific | Confirmed with Project(Yes/No) |
|---|---|---|
| Vac-DST | Proceed with status-backend benchmarks for nwaku and new chat sdk migration | Yes |
| Vac-QA | Proceed with status-backend non-regression testing for nwaku and new chat sdk migration | Yes |
| Status Network | Support usage of Sepolia | Yes |
| Vac-ACZ | Assist with using zerokit in the Browser | Yes |
| Vac-ACZ | Assist in determining best libraries to use for cryptography in new Chat SDK | Yes |
| Infra | Maintain Waku fleet, apply config changes requests, deploy new nodes for metrics | TODO |
| Vac-SC | Support of functional extension of RLN Smart Contract | Yes |
Funding and Resources (By Strategic Objective)
Rolled-Up By Strategic Objective
TODO: copy from strategic objectives in milestone table.
| Strategic Objective | People Costs | Infra Costs | Other Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protocol Enhancement on Waku Chat | 300k | 50k | |
| Enable Logos Vision Chat Protocol | 400k | 10k |
Budget Consultation
TODO
| Headline Activity | Status |
|---|---|
| Financial Review Status | [new,renew,review,approved] |
| Finance Comments | please add comment rows as needed |
By Resource
| Resource Headline Item | People | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Present Resource | 20 | |
| Additional Resource Ask | 2 | backfills (more to ...TODO strategic objhectve) |
| PeopleOps Informed | Yes |
PeopleOps Consultation
TODO
| Review Status | [new,renew,review,approved]|
| Review Comments | [new,renew,review,approved]|
⚠️ Keys Risks Identified & Controls
TODO: big ones
Accept: you accept the risk and it may realize Own: you spend effort to resolve the risk Mitigation: you find a way to reduce the risk impact
| Risk | (Accept, Own, Mitigation) |
|---|---|
| [Risk] | [Mitigation strategy] |
| [Risk] | [Mitigation strategy] |
| [Risk] | [Mitigation strategy] |
✅ Key Observations
[Specific observations from this last execution window]
TO CLARIFY Lessons, strategic observations, other improvements. "Key Improvements"/retrospective.
TODO: remove below
🛠️ FURPS Reference by Proposed Milestone
TO CLARIFY
| Headline 1 | FURPS Defined | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Waku Store database narrative | F2(3) U(1) R (1) P(2) S(0) | link to FURPS |
| RLN standard module 1 | F2(3) U(1) R (1) P(1) S(0) | link to FURPS |
| Chat SDK version 1 | F2(3) U(1) R (0) P(0) S(0) | link to FURPS |
Appendix A (Optional)
See links in Proposed Milestones(s)
FURPS
See links in Proposed Milestones(s). Each milestone has FURPS
Risks Identified
TO CLARIFY: is this per milestone?
TO CLARIFY: What does "(Accept, Own, Mitigation)" mean?
| Risk | (Accept, Own, Mitigation) |
|---|---|
| Readiness of status-go for Chat SDK integration | Weekly sync up on chat sdk and status-go refactoring topic between Waku and Status teams, collaborative planning done to align goals and API. |
| [Risk] | [how to we address this risk] |
| [Risk] | [how to we address this risk] |