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<h1 class="text-2xl text-gray font-semibold text-center lg:max-w-2xl lg:text-left">About</h1>
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<p class="text-base text-gray font-semibold mb-5 md:mb-9">Communication today is rife with third party interference. From censorship and deplatforming, to rent seeking intermediaries, to the misuse of data in the surveillance economy.</p>
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<p class="text-base text-gray font-semibold">Waku is designed to place control of communication back into the hands of the individual.</p>
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<h2 class="ont-semibold leading-10 text-2xl md:text-center lg:text-left lg:w-36">Motivation and goals</h2>
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<p class="text-sm font-semibold mb-8 leading-7 md:text-center md:mb-6 lg:text-left lg:mb-12">Digital signature, public key difficulty hashrate whitepaper, Merkle Tree double-spend Mempool outputs, double-spend problem?</p>
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<h3 class="text-sm font-semibold mb-4 text-gray md:mb-6">Privacy</h3>
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<p class="text-sm leading-relaxed text-gray75">These applications have a desire for some privacy guarantees, such as pseudonymity, metadata protection in transit, etc.</p>
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<h3 class="text-sm font-semibold mb-4 text-gray md:mb-6">Peer-to-Peer</h3>
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<p class="text-sm leading-relaxed text-gray75">These applications sometimes have requirements that make them suitable for peer-to-peer solutions.</p>
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<h3 class="text-sm font-semibold mb-4 text-gray md:mb-6">Generalized messaging</h3>
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<p class="text-sm leading-relaxed text-gray75">Many applications require some form of messaging protocol to communicate between different subsystems or different nodes. This messaging can be human-to-human or machine-to-machine or a mix.</p>
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<h3 class="text-sm font-semibold mb-4 text-gray md:mb-6">Resource restricted</h3>
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<p class="text-sm leading-relaxed text-gray75">These applications often run in constrained environments, where resources or the environment is restricted in some fashion. E.g.:</p>
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<li>limited bandwidth, CPU, memory, disk, battery, etc.,</li>
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<li>not being publicly connectable,</li>
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<li>only being intermittently connected; mostly-offline.</li>
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<h2 class="font-semibold leading-10 text-2xl md:text-center lg:text-left lg:w-36">History</h2>
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<p class="text-sm font-semibold mb-8 leading-7 md:text-center md:mb-6 lg:text-left lg:mb-12">Only Waku v1 was a fork of Whisper with some added tweaks for efficiency. Waku v2 is a completely redesigned suite of protocols designed to address the goals set out in the "Motivation and goals" section.</p>
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<span class="text-white">2013</span>
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<p class="text-sm w-8/12">Ethereum White Paper was introduced with the Holy Trinity, consisting of Ethereum for consensu, Swarm for decentralized storage, and Whisper for p2p messaging.</p>
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<span class="text-white">2015</span>
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<span class="text-white">2018</span>
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<p class="text-sm w-8/12">R&D of Whisper was slow to follow progress of the Ethereum EVM and Swarm without a dedicated team building out the protocol.</p>
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<span class="text-white">2018</span>
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<p class="text-sm w-8/12">With little progress made on Whisper and significant scalability concerns growing, Vac was formed to conduct R&D on more scalable p2p messaging.</p>
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<span class="text-white">2020</span>
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<p class="text-sm w-8/12">Waku v1 was introduced as the messaging protocol in Status, replacing Whisper.</p>
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<span class="text-white">2021</span>
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<p class="text-sm w-8/12">Waku v2 replaces Waku v1 (details)</p>
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<li class="mb-4"><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="/about">About</a></li>
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<li class="mb-4"><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="https://rfc.vac.dev/spec/10/">Specs</a></li>
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<li class="mb-4"><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="/node">Run a node</a></li>
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<li class="mb-4"><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="/blog">Blog</a></li>
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<li class="mb-4"><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="https://forum.vac.dev/">Forum</a></li>
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<li><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="https://jobs.status.im/">Careers</a></li>
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<li class="mb-4"><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="https://twitter.com/vacp2p">Twitter</a></li>
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<li class="mb-4"><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="https://discord.gg/ev9GQGJ9Dg">Discord</a></li>
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<li><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="https://github.com/vacp2p/">GitHub</a></li>
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<li class="mb-4"><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="https://github.com/status-im/go-waku">go-waku</a></li>
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<li class="mb-4"><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="https://github.com/status-im/nim-waku/">nim-waku</a></li>
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<li><a class="text-sm leading-6 hover:underline hover:text-blue" href="https://github.com/status-im/js-waku">js-waku</a></li>
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<p class="text-sm leading-6 order-4 md:order-3 xl:order-2">Waku is a privacy-preserving, peer-to-peer messaging protocol designed for resource restricted devices.</p>
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