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**Research and Studies**: Protocol simulations and theoretical analysis to support the design of Waku protocols. The protocol definitions are on the [Waku RFCs](https://rfc.vac.dev/waku) website.

**Benchmarks**: Results of implementations and engineering-related benchmarks for Waku clients.

Waku also has the following published research papers:
- [**WAKU-RLN-RELAY: Privacy-Preserving Peer-to-Peer Economic Spam Protection**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00117)
- [**Message Latency in Waku Relay with Rate Limiting Nullifiers**](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1073)
- [**Waku: A Family of Modular P2P Protocols For Secure & Censorship-Resistant Communication**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00038)
- [**The Waku Network as Infrastructure for dApps**](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10646404)