waku.guide/docs/About/1.md

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Introduction

Waku (v2) is family of modular peer-to-peer protocols for secure communication. The protocols are designed to be secure, privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant and able to run in resource restricted environments.

It enables you to add communication features to your dApp in a decentralized manner, ensuring to your users that they will not be censored or de-platformed.

• removes centralized third parties from messaging: enabling private, secure, censorship-free communication with no single point of failure.
• provides privacy-preserving capabilities: sender anonymity, metadata protection and unlinkability to personally identifiable information.
• designed for generalized messaging: enables human-to-human, machine-to-machine or hybrid communication.
• runs everywhere: desktop, server, including resource-restricted devices, such as mobile devices and browsers.