Waku is Uncompromising Peer-to-Peer Communication at Scale
A family of robust, censorship-resistant communication protocols designed to enable securely scalable, privacy-focused messaging for breakthrough applications in Web3 and beyond.
Features
1
Scalable and Reliable
Waku is a comprehensive and modular stack of protocols, bringing turnkey reliability and scalability to decentralisation communications. Designed to work out of the box and scale with confidence.
2
DoS Protection
Waku is the first protocol to offer network-level protection from Denial-of-Service attacks that preserves privacy and decentralisation. RLN Relay integrates built-in safeguards to decentralised communications.
3
Web and Mobile
Waku enables truly decentralised access to its P2P network for end-users on browsers and smartphones. With secure, permissionless light protocols, Waku is built to thrive even in resource-restricted environments.
4
Marketplace
Soon
Waku nodes need incentives to service mobile and web users. The Waku Service Marketplace offers a privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant platform that lets projects service users withut running their own infrastructure.
Logos Collective
Waku is powering the communication layer of the Logos technology stack. Logos is a grassroots movement, building the infrastructure for trust-minimised, corruption-resistant governing services and social institutions for peaceful people worldwide.
Learn more about our ambitious vision.
What is Waku?
Watch this introductory video to understand Waku's technology and purpose.
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."
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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; Waku v2 with Relay PoC and spec with relay.
2021
04
Waku v2 specs and PoC released with RLN Relay and light protocols; JS-Waku (for browsers) and Go-Waku released.
2022
05
Discv5 and DNS Discovery added; SQLite for Waku Store; RLN Relay testnet debuts at Devcon 6.
2023
06
Relay sharding, including auto-sharding; opt-in spam-protected topic; Launch of The Waku Network, a permissionless proto-network DoS protected by RLNv1.
2024 H1
07
Functional Waku edge node in Status mobile, using light protocols; Store v3 protocol to enable hash message queries, allowing implementation of peer-to-peer reliabilty protocols.
