Waku Development Updates - August 2025

🤔 What Waku Just Built

By Waku
Aug 14, 2025, 4:36 PM
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Key Updates for Waku Protocol:

  • nwaku adds shard-specific metrics and enhanced HTTP URL regex
  • RLNv2 now live in nwaku v0.​36
  • Protocol incentives framework taking shape

July brought significant progress with the successful deployment of RLNv2 and continued development of protocol incentives.​ The team's virtual offsite helped establish strategic direction.​

Recent Technical Improvements:

  • Memory management fixes for publishing
  • Metrics support added to status-go
  • New js-waku version released

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Here’s what happened at Waku over the past week: [nwaku] →Preparing for v0.36.0 release →Analysing memory leak during message publishing →Investigating waku-go-bindings and libwaku bugs [js-waku] →Improved peer selection across protocols →Fixed issue with LightPush not

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🚀 js-waku new release is out! 🚀 Available versions: - waku/core: 0.0.36 - waku/interfaces: 0.0.31 - waku/sdk: 0.0.32 (and others…) 🔎 Highlights 🔍 ✔️ Breaking changes: upgraded libp2p, Node.js, and TypeScript; removed not needed types and interfaces. ✔️ Event-based Filter

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It’s time to look back on the last week in Waku! [nwaku] → Enhanced algorithm for detecting network disconnection → Strengthened libwaku and Nim C library template against possible segfaults → Allowed the creation of a libwaku DLL for Windows → Simplified health monitor

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It’s time to look back on the last week at Waku! Here are the highlights: [nwaku] → Adapted libwaku to provide metrics → Enabled dynamic log level changes through REST in wakunode2 [js-waku] → Smart peer management for Store → Made SDS process all messages synchronously

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The latest weekly highlights from the Waku team are here! [nwaku] →Deployed nwaku v0.36.0 on Waku fleets [js-waku] →Added module for Waku-specific events →Re-organised and improved connection management →Implemented recovery mechanism for lost connections Read all the

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The latest Waku weekly highlights are here: [nwaku] →Integrated nwaku metrics in Status Desktop →Simplified nwaku-compose’s onboarding process →Minimised nim-chronos raw async methods [js-waku] →Chunked Store queries in 24h ranges →Expose js-waku events from unified source

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