[NEW]: Waku 'light node' in rust

[ameba23]

Introduction

• Who you are: My name is Peg, i grew up in London and live in Germany. I am passionate about peer-to-peer networks and protocols. github.com/ameba23 gitlab.com/pegpeg.
• What you do: I work for Entropy, a threshold signing MPC network. Previously worked on Dark Crystal social key recovery.
• How you got first into Ethereum: I was working on a social recovery system for the peer-to-peer social network 'secure scuttlebutt'. Since key recovery systems are also relevant to blockchain we had a lot of interest from blockchain projects which took me in that direction.
• What brings you to ETHBerlin: The opportunity to learn together with a bunch of motivated hackers.

Idea description

Waku 'light node' in rust

Waku is a suite of generalised messaging protocols aiming to be the communication standard for the decentralised web. It is used by Status instant messaging, Railgun and the Graph.

Waku has implementations in Nim, Go and JS. For rust there are bindings to the Go implementation, but these require that the Go implementation is built and installed and make it difficult to understand logs and errors without understanding the Go implementation.

There is already an unofficial rust implementation, but its is not actively maintained and has several issues. But it can serve as the inspiration or base for this project.

Given how much time we have, the proposal is to only make a 'light node', that is implement the following protocols:

• peer exchange
• filter
• light push

These are much simpler and easier to implement than the full-node protocol, but downside is that they rely more on existing infrastructure, meaning things are more centralised. However it does allow us to be able to send and receive Waku messages, so its a good start.

Skillset

What skills do you need, or think you might need to implement the idea?

• Knowledge of the waku protocols
• Knowledge of libp2p (as waku is largely based on libp2p)
• JS/typescript - for understanding the waku JS implementation
• Go - for understanding the waku Go implementation
• Nim - for understanding the waku Nim implementation
• Rust - for this project
• General experience with protocols / networking
• Enthusiasm!

Communication

• Matrix handle: @peg_23:matrix.org

[gordon-to]

I'm a golang dev with experience in JavaScript. Im also familiar with rust and nim. I'm new to the web3 space and looking for a team.

matrix: gordon-to:matrix.org

[ameba23]

Here is the project, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/LesnyRumcajs/waku-oxidized