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Waku is Uncompromising Web3 Communication at Scale

A family of robust, censorship-resistant communication protocols designed to enable privacy-focused messaging for web3 apps.

Features

1

Private

Waku leverages cutting-edge zero-knowledge encryption to guarantee all messaging and associated metadata benefit from rock-solid privacy, protecting users from third-party intervention.

2

Censorship resistant

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.

3

Modular

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.

4

Scalable

Waku employs message sharding for efficient throughput, while its discovery protocol ensures a user connects to nodes serving messages they are interested in.

Logos Network State

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.

User Endorsements

Status

"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.”

Railgun

"RAILGUN contributors selected Waku to run its relayer network as an early-stage but promising product of the privacy-centric status.im ecosystem. We have not been disappointed. The developers are extremely professional and responsive, and continue to strive to understand and meet our needs as a communication layer for relaying private transactions."

The Graph

"Our experience with Waku has been transformative, proving to be a valuable tool that reveals the potential of peer-to-peer communication technologies. We are excited to continue using Waku's advanced features and contribute to the growth of Graphcast and the broader Graph ecosystem."

Roadmap

Waku aims to support tens of millions of simultaneous users, truly serving as the communications standard across web3

2013
01

Ethereum's Whisper unveiled as web3 messaging protocol

2018
02

Status establishes Vac to R&D Whisper improvements

2020
03

Waku v1 replaces Whisper in Status app

2021 Q1
04

Waku v2 specs and PoC released with RLN Relay

2021 Q2
05

JS-Waku (for browsers) and Go-Waku released

2022 Q3
06

DNS Discovery added, plus availability in more languages

2022 Q4
07

SQLite for Waku Store, RLN Relay testnet debuts at DevCon

2023 Q2
08

Relay sharding, opt-in spam-protected topic

2023 Q4
09

Auto-sharding, DoS protection, bandwidth capping

2024+
10

Operator Incentivization, use-case specific SDKs

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