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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 uses cutting-edge zero-knowledge technology to protect applications from Denial of Service attacks. Tailor your application's privacy settings to suit your needs.

2

Censorship resistant

Decentralised human-to-human, machine-to-human, and machine-to-machine communication, with no single point of failure. Work to develop Waku's native incentivisation mechanism is ongoing. It will aim to stimulate 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 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.

2024 H2
08

RLNv2: Flexible rate limit & onchain Merkle tree. Peer-to-peer and end-to-end reliability protocols.

2025+
09

Simplify Waku API. Incentivization, RLN in mainnet and browser, Status chat protocols scalability and optimization.

Team

Aaron

Aaron

Arseniy

Arseniy

Danish

Danish

Darshan

Darshan

Franck

Franck

Gabriel

Gabriel

Hanno

Hanno

Ivan

Ivan

Pedro

Pedro

Prem

Prem

Richard

Richard

Simon-Pierre

Simon-Pierre

Sasha

Sasha

Sergei

Sergei

shash256

shash256

Tanya

Tanya

Václav

Václav

Zoltan

Zoltan

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