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2.4 KiB
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33 lines
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title: Why Waku?
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Communication today is rife with third party interference.
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From censorship and deplatforming, to rent seeking intermediaries, to the misuse of data in the surveillance economy.
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Waku is designed to place control of communication back into the hands of the individual.
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It is the communication layer for Web3 -- **decentralized communication that scales**.
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- Waku fills the void left by Whisper.
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- We are building Waku as a public good for the Ethereum and multi-chain ecosystem.
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- It is not tied to a specific chain.
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- It is modular and adaptive, enabling various use cases.
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- It enables developers to decentralize communication in their dApps or move actions off-chain without compromising decentralization.
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- It aims to run anywhere, in the cloud and browser alike.
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Private. Secure. Runs anywhere.
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| | Whisper | Waku |
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| **Scalability** | Whisper doesn't scale very well, specifically when it comes to bandwidth usage on mobile devices. | Uses gossipsub and content topics. |
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| **Spam Resistance** | Proof of work requires too much battery and compute power making it a poor mechanism for heterogeneous nodes. | Uses innovative p2p economic spam protection mechanism RLN Relay |
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| **No incentivized infrastructure** | There is no incentive to run a Whisper node | Research in progress to design incentivization for node operators. |
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| **Formal Specification/Documentation** | Lack of formal and unambiguous specification | Open source specs & docs and available for anyone to read or improve. |
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| **Portability** | Runs over devp2p which limits where Whisper can run and how | Waku is built using libp2p, making it easy to run Waku anywhere. |
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