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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 class="link link--external" href="https://vac.dev/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
      >See VAC openings</a
    >
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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.
        </p>
        {%- comment -%}
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          <a
            class="link link--external group-hover:text-white"
            href="https://vac.dev/"
            target="_blank"
            rel="noopener noreferrer"
            >Visit Vaku</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.
        </p>
        {%- comment -%}
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          <a
            class="link link--external link--dapp group-hover:text-peach"
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            target="_blank"
            rel="noopener noreferrer"
            >Visit DApp Connect</a
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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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