This post is part of a series focusing on Waku's features. The goal is to help developers understand how they can leverage Waku for their own applications and projects. Peer-to-peer networks, DDoS, and resource usage Any system, including peer-to-peer networks, may face Denial-of-Service (DoS) issues, where users cannot

TLDR: We have just shipped two important features to The Waku Network that offer more granularity for RLN rate-limiting and add support for stateless light clients. Introduction to The Waku Network Waku launched The Waku Network last December 2023. A first-of-its-kind decentralized network focused on privacy and censorship resistance, running

An introduction to message reliability and the role of Waku protocols in ensuring it. Waku provides a suite of protocols to enable Denial-of-Service (DoS) protected, peer-to-peer message routing and access to said peer-to-peer network for resource-restricted devices. Those protocols have been designed to solve message routing, focusing on privacy and

An overview of the foundational requirements of permissionless communities and Waku's research on autosharding to enhance decentralisation, privacy, and scalability. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to building permissionless communities. Indeed, Waku and other projects are still researching the best ways to enable such communities while retaining decentralisation, privacy

Learn more about how The Graph uses Waku to build a decentralised data querying layer for blockchains Indexing blockchain data can be challenging for projects with complex smart contracts. Managing and querying the vast data generated has become a significant challenge as the blockchain ecosystem proliferates. The inherent properties of

Learn more about how RAILGUN uses Waku to build a privacy layer on top of EVM based chains Does your Dapp need to offer private on-chain transactions? The following scenarios are examples of users that have such privacy requirements: * Donations made for humanitarian reasons: A humanitarian cross-border organisation like UNICEF

Highlights from the Waku team in April 2024. Welcome to the monthly Waku progress report. The EcoDev group at Waku covers community, growth, partnerships, and communications. The Research and Development group covers the academic and engineering research that supports Waku’s development, as well as the core team of Waku

Highlights from the Waku team in March 2024. Welcome to the monthly Waku progress report. The EcoDev group at Waku covers community, growth, partnerships, and communications. The Research and Development group covers the academic and engineering research that supports Waku’s development, as well as the core team of Waku

A comprehensive overview of the Waku Network. Last December we announced the Waku Network. The Waku Network is the first decentralised and privacy-preserving network that provides Denial-of-Service (DoS) protections for peer-to-peer messaging. It aims to enhance privacy and security in peer-to-peer communication by implementing innovative protocols and technologies. Let us

An overview of the need for decentralised and privacy-preserving artificial intelligence. After the recent boom in the generative artificial intelligence (AI) space, several critics have questioned the convergence of AI and web3. There is also a growing misconception that web3 does not have native use cases within the AI space.

Read in Spanish Did you know that far beyond being a mere industry buzzword, decentralised communication represents a strategic response to the vulnerabilities inherent in centralised systems? It prioritises privacy, security, and censorship resistance, making it an indispensable component in web developers' toolkits. Traditional centralised communication systems have long

Updates from the EcoDev team in February 2024, plus highlights from the community call. The EcoDev team at Waku covers community, growth, partnerships, and communications. Each month, we will share the key highlights and team progress. You can subscribe to the monthly newsletter if you prefer to receive an abridged

Updates from the EcoDev team in January 2024, plus highlights from the first Waku community call. The EcoDev team at Waku covers community, growth, partnerships, and communications. Each month, we will share the key highlights and progress of the team. You can subscribe to the monthly newsletter if you prefer

In this beginner-friendly tutorial, we will be building a basic TicTacToe game that can be played by two players who are connected using Waku. What is Waku Waku is a family of robust, censorship-resistant, and privacy-preserving communication protocols designed to enable perfomant messaging for web3 apps. When I say ‘messaging’

A review of the key learnings from Waku hackathon participants this year and what we are doing to improve developers' experience. 2023 has been an incredible year for Waku. We attended eight events across four continents, participated in three ETHGlobal hackathons, and hosted the first Waku Hacker House. It

A comprehensive review of the Waku roadmap for H2 2023 Background on Waku To understand why Waku exists, you need only to consider the centralised internet. Technology giants can dictate what we see and with whom we can communicate. The centralised platforms we regularly use to communicate have privileged access

A glance into how Waku has progressed its scaling capabilities throughout 2023 As we move forward into the last months 2023, our primary goal has been to solidify the scalability of Waku protocols, focusing on Status Communities. We have set and reached our milestone of providing a Waku network that

Device pairing and secure message exchange using Waku and noise protocol. As the world becomes increasingly connected through the internet, the need for secure and reliable communication becomes paramount. In this article it is described how the Noise protocol can be used as a key-exchange mechanism for Waku. Recently, this

Learn how the Waku Network is evolving through scaling, incentivization, and diverse ecosystem development and what the future might look like. Waku is preparing for production with a focus on the Status Communities use case. In this blog post, we will provide an overview of recent discussions and research outputs,