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VAC researches peer-to-peer, private, censorship resistant communication.
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<a class="link link--external" href="https://vac.dev/" target="_blank"
>See VAC openings</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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The communication layer for Ethereum. A tech stack enabling
decentralized communication between DApps and people.
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About
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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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Research log
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