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---
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title: The Story of Waku
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---
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Waku v1 was a fork of Whisper with some added tweaks for efficiency. Waku v2 is a completely redesigned suite of protocols designed to address the goals set out [previously](/#motivation-and-goals).
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```mermaid
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%%{init: { 'logLevel': 'debug', 'theme': 'base', 'gitGraph': {'showBranches': true, 'showCommitLabel':true,'mainBranchName': 'HISTORY'}} }%%
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gitGraph
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commit id:"2013"
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commit id:"2015" tag:"R&D"
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commit id:"2018" tag:"R&D" type: HIGHLIGHT
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branch v1
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checkout v1
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commit id:"2020" tag:"release"
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checkout HISTORY
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merge v1
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branch v2
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checkout v2
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commit id:"2021" tag:"release"
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checkout HISTORY
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merge v2
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commit id:"🔥"
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```
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### 2013
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The introduction of the Ethereum White Paper marked the unveiling of the Holy Trinity, which comprises Ethereum for consensus, Swarm for decentralized storage, and Whisper for peer-to-peer messaging.
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### 2015-2018
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The development of the Whisper protocol lagged behind the advancements made by the Ethereum EVM and Swarm, primarily because there was no dedicated team working on building the protocol.
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### 2018
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Due to the lack of progress made on Whisper and growing concerns around scalability, Vac was established to focus on researching and developing more scalable peer-to-peer messaging solutions.
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### 2020
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Status introduced Waku v1 as its messaging protocol, which replaced Whisper.
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### 2021
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Waku v2 supersedes Waku v1.
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