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---
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Waku is a family of protocols that enable private, censorship-resistant communications; a suite of open-source software; and the name of the public, permissionless and decentralized network facilitating generalized messaging. By communications, we mean the exchange of data or messages between two or more entities, whether they are users, devices or nodes.
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Waku is a family of protocols that enable private, censorship-resistant communications; a suite of open-source software; and the name of the public, permissionless and decentralised network facilitating generalised messaging. By communications, we mean the exchange of data or messages between two or more entities, whether they are users, devices or nodes.
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Waku was built as open-source public goods infrastructure to serve as the communications layer of the decentralized web. As such, its development focuses on the following:
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Waku was built as open-source public goods infrastructure to serve as the communications layer of the decentralised web. As such, its development focuses on the following:
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- **Generalized:** Waku's focus on generalized and ephemeral messaging facilitates communication between users, subsystems or nodes according to developers' needs.
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- **Generalised:** Waku's focus on generalised and ephemeral messaging facilitates communication between users, subsystems or nodes according to developers' needs.
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- **Peer-to-peer:** Waku is implemented via a decentralized p2p network, yielding the advantages of censorship resistance while remaining adaptive and scalable.
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- **Peer-to-peer:** Waku is implemented via a decentralised p2p network, yielding the advantages of censorship resistance while remaining adaptive and scalable.
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- **Runs anywhere:** Waku was designed to run in resource-restricted environments—like phones and browsers—enabling users operating lower-spec hardware or with intermittent bandwidth to participate as peers.
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- **Modular:** Waku's modularity enables developers to make tradeoffs according to their users' privacy expectations and performance demands by implementing only those protocols that are relevant to their applications. While one app might value privacy above all else, another may be willing to make compromises to deliver a more frictionless UX.
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- **Platform agnostic:** Waku can run on any platform or in any environment making it a suitable messaging solution for decentralized applications regardless of the network on which they're deployed.
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- **Platform agnostic:** Waku can run on any platform or in any environment making it a suitable messaging solution for decentralised applications regardless of the network on which they're deployed.
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Waku is the communication standard for the decentralized web. A suite of generalized messaging protocols, it enables private, secure, bidirectional human-to-human, machine-to-machine and human-to-machine communication without reliance on centralized intermediaries.
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Waku is the communication standard for the decentralised web. A suite of generalised messaging protocols, it enables private, secure, bidirectional human-to-human, machine-to-machine and human-to-machine communication without reliance on centralised intermediaries.
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Waku serves as the communications branch of the [Logos](https://logos.co/) tech stack. Alongside the computational branch, [Nomos](http://www.nomos.tech), and the storage branch, [Codex](http://www.codex.storage), it is one of the Logos Collective's foundational projects.
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Today's internet is increasingly controlled by a vanishingly small number of tech giants. The Googles, Amazons and Metas of the world dictate what we see and with whom we can communicate. Their influence is absolute, and their actions shape global public opinion and even geopolitics.
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To anyone that understands the internet's present architecture, this outcome should be expected. The centralized entities through which we communicate have privileged access to reams of data that we, as internet users, produce daily, presenting an opportunity for the kind of surveillance that was once confined to the pages of science-fiction literature. Thinking that the most powerful commercial and political institutions would not leverage this would be naive.
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To anyone that understands the internet's present architecture, this outcome should be expected. The centralised entities through which we communicate have privileged access to reams of data that we, as internet users, produce daily, presenting an opportunity for the kind of surveillance that was once confined to the pages of science-fiction literature. Thinking that the most powerful commercial and political institutions would not leverage this would be naive.
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Yet, it doesn't have to be this way. Advances in cryptography, P2P technologies and decentralized networking provide an alternate path forward.
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Yet, it doesn't have to be this way. Advances in cryptography, P2P technologies and decentralised networking provide an alternate path forward.
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### (Slowly) moving toward a decentralized web
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### (Slowly) moving toward a decentralised web
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The early Ethereum community realized this. Initially, the plan was to rebuild the web's architecture along decentralized lines by developing the so-called "Holy Trinity of the Decentralized Web." Ethereum itself would handle computation, Swarm was the reimagined web's storage layer and Whisper would take care of messaging.
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The early Ethereum community realised this. Initially, the plan was to rebuild the web's architecture along decentralised lines by developing the so-called "Holy Trinity of the Decentralised Web." Ethereum itself would handle computation, Swarm was the reimagined web's storage layer and Whisper would take care of messaging.
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Whisper was a promising start but scalability shortcomings quickly became apparent. Meanwhile, for reasons upon which we can only speculate, the development of Swarm and Whisper was relegated to a backseat while Ethereum took center stage. Yet, without adequate communication and storage layers, the decentralized web's potential for disruption remained severely handicapped.
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Whisper was a promising start but scalability shortcomings quickly became apparent. Meanwhile, for reasons upon which we can only speculate, the development of Swarm and Whisper was relegated to a backseat while Ethereum took centre stage. Yet, without adequate communication and storage layers, the decentralised web's potential for disruption remained severely handicapped.
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Status, the decentralized messaging application, hoped to leverage Whisper but with development grinding to a snail's pace, it was forced to take up the job itself. Consequently, the R&D group [Vac](https://vac.dev/) was put together in 2018 to research solutions to Whisper's scaling woes.
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Status, the decentralised messaging application, hoped to leverage Whisper but with development grinding to a snail's pace, it was forced to take up the job itself. Consequently, the R&D group [Vac](https://vac.dev/) was put together in 2018 to research solutions to Whisper's scaling woes.
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Given Waku v1's scaling difficulties, the team behind Waku is primarily focused on ensuring v2 scales securely. By the end of Q2 2023, we aim to support more than one million users.
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Meanwhile, the team is also working on ensuring production readiness alongside network and development sustainability. Although work on these areas is already underway, our efforts will intensify as we progress toward our million-user-milestone. Finally, Waku aims to promote itself among developers looking to add decentralized communications to their applications.
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Meanwhile, the team is also working on ensuring production readiness alongside network and development sustainability. Although work on these areas is already underway, our efforts will intensify as we progress toward our million-user-milestone. Finally, Waku aims to promote itself among developers looking to add decentralised communications to their applications.
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## Waku Research
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Our research efforts are led by a former telecoms engineer with almost a decade of experience, and supported by a post-doctoral research engineer who specializes in communications networks.
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Our research efforts are led by a former telecoms engineer with almost a decade of experience, and supported by a post-doctoral research engineer who specialises in communications networks.
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## Waku Development
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{`Waku is Uncompromising Web3 Communication at Scale`}
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</HeroTitle>
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<HeroDescription>
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{`Waku is powering the communication layer of the Logos Network State. Logos is a grassroots movement to provide trust-minimized, corruption-resistant governing services and social institutions to peaceful people worldwide.`}
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{`Waku is powering the communication layer of the Logos Network State. Logos is a grassroots movement to provide trust-minimised, corruption-resistant governing services and social institutions to peaceful people worldwide.`}
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</HeroDescription>
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<HeroAction href="https://docs.waku.org/" target="_blank">
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{
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title: 'Censorship resistant',
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description:
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"Decentralized human-to-human, machine-to-human, and machine-to-machine communication, with no single point of failure. Waku’s native incentivization mechanism stimulates an expanding node distribution, promoting an increasingly secure network.",
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"Decentralised human-to-human, machine-to-human, and machine-to-machine communication, with no single point of failure. Waku\'s native incentivization mechanism stimulates an expanding node distribution, promoting an increasingly secure network.",
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title: 'Modular',
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description:
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'Waku protocols are adaptive and platform agnostic and can be customized based on an application’s unique demands. Waku is built to flourish even in resource-restricted environments like browsers and mobile devices.',
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'Waku protocols are adaptive and platform agnostic and can be customised based on an application\'s unique demands. Waku is built to flourish even in resource-restricted environments like browsers and mobile devices.',
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<CallToActionSection
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title="Logos Network State"
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columns={1}
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description="Waku is powering the communication layer of the Logos Network State. Logos is a grassroots movement to provide trust-minimized, corruption-resistant governing services and social institutions to peaceful people worldwide. Learn more about our ambitious vision."
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description="Waku is powering the communication layer of the Logos Network State. Logos is a grassroots movement to provide trust-minimised, corruption-resistant governing services and social institutions to peaceful people worldwide. Learn more about our ambitious vision."
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label="Explore Logos"
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logo: '/showcase/status-mark-black.svg',
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logoDark: '/showcase/status-mark-white.svg',
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`"Waku v2 has been instrumental in helping us scale the Status application securely while maintaining the decentralized nature of our network. The Waku team has been invaluable in providing practical solutions during the development of the Waku v2 protocol, enabling us to deliver essential Status Communities features.”`,
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`"Waku v2 has been instrumental in helping us scale the Status application securely while maintaining the decentralised nature of our network. The Waku team has been invaluable in providing practical solutions during the development of the Waku v2 protocol, enabling us to deliver essential Status Communities features.”`,
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