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| Comparing Waku and libp2p |
Since Waku is built on top of libp2p, they share a lot of concepts and terminologies between them. However, there are key differences between them that are worth noting.
Waku as a Service Network
Waku intends to incentivize mechanisms to run nodes, but it's not part of libp2p's scope. Additionally, users or developers do not have to deploy their infra as a prerequisite to use Waku. It is a service network.
However, you are encouraged to run your node to support and decentralize the network.
Waku as a Keyturn Solution
Waku includes various protocols covering the following domains: privacy preservation, censorship resistance, and platform agnosticism, allowing it to run on any platform or environment.
libp2p does not provide out-of-the-box protocols to enable mostly offline/resource-restricted devices, Waku Store/Waku Light Push/Waku Filter caters to those use cases.
Economic Spam Protection
libp2p does not have strong spam protection guarantees, RLN (Rate Limit Nullifier) is a protocol being developed by the Waku team towards this goal.