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Improved rate limiting and stateless light clients in The Waku Network

Improved rate limiting and stateless light clients in The Waku Network

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

Message Reliability

Message Reliability

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

Permissionless Community Creation

Permissionless Community Creation

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

Deep Dive Into The Graph: Powered by Waku

Deep Dive Into The Graph: Powered by Waku

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

Deep Dive Into RAILGUN: Powered by Waku

Deep Dive Into RAILGUN: Powered by Waku

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

April Progress Report

April Progress Report

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

March Progress Report

March Progress Report

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

The Waku Network: Technical Overview

The Waku Network: Technical Overview

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

The convergence of AI, Blockchain and Privacy

The convergence of AI, Blockchain and Privacy

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.

Build a dApp Using Waku and Vue.js

Build a dApp Using Waku and Vue.js

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

Cree una dApp con Waku

Cree una dApp con Waku

Read in English TL;DR ¿Sabías que, más allá de ser una mera palabra de moda en el sector, la comunicación descentralizada representa una respuesta estratégica a las vulnerabilidades inherentes de los sistemas centralizados? Da prioridad a la privacidad, la seguridad y la resistencia a la censura, lo que la

February EcoDev Roundup

February EcoDev Roundup

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

January EcoDev Roundup

January EcoDev Roundup

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

Building a Tic-Tac-Toe Game with Waku

Building a Tic-Tac-Toe Game with Waku

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’

Key Learnings from Waku Hackers in 2023

Key Learnings from Waku Hackers in 2023

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

The Waku Roadmap

The Waku Roadmap

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

Scaling Waku: A Progress Update

Scaling Waku: A Progress Update

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 in Js-waku and Go-waku

Device Pairing in Js-waku and Go-waku

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

The Future of Waku Network: Scaling, Incentivization, and Heterogeneity

The Future of Waku Network: Scaling, Incentivization, and Heterogeneity

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,