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    <h1 class="text-xl md:text-xxl mb-10 sm:max-w-md lg:max-w-xl">
      VAC researches peer-to-peer, private, censorship resistant communication.
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    <a
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      Work
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      Building protocols and products at all layers of the stack including
      underlying transports, p2p overlays and routing, initial trust
      establishment, and semantics for things like group chat.
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          Waku
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          A gossip based messaging protocol for private, secure, p2p messaging
          with implementations written in go, nim, java script.
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          <a
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          DApp Connect
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          The communication layer for Ethereum. A tech stack enabling
          decentralized communication between DApps and people.
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      Our research is designed to remove centralized third parties from our
      communication. We believe in the right to privacy, security, and autonomy
      of the individual.
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