Waku Network Unveils Game-Changing MVP for Decentralised Communications

Waku, the trailblazing privacy-centric peer-to-peer communications protocol, has officially launched its highly anticipated open-source Waku Network MVP. This marks a pivotal moment for decentralised messaging in web3 applications, now set for real-world trials with an anticipated user capacity of up to eighty thousand.
Compared to historical milestones, including BitTorrent’s peak of one hundred and fifty thousand daily users in 2008, the Waku Network aims to surpass these benchmarks. Its innovative approach integrates a shared routing layer, prioritising user privacy while fortifying security. A key feature is the introduction of message rate-limiting, a decentralised solution to potential Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, ensuring robust protection without compromising user privacy or censorship resistance.
The Waku Network’s implementation of message rate-limiting provides decentralised DoS protections while preserving user privacy and censorship resistance. Users can join a group on-chain, verifying membership in each message using a zero-knowledge approach. Publishers are initially constrained to one message per second at launch, with the team exploring alternative models—a significant leap in addressing challenges of DoS and spam messaging without compromising privacy.
The Waku Network, conceived as a public good to replace Ethereum’s Whisper, operates as a blockchain-agnostic solution applicable to any web3 or web2 application. Already adopted by projects such as Status, Railgun, and the Graph, it plays a pivotal role in the web3 trifecta, encompassing decentralised consensus, communications, and storage.
The Waku Network launch was celebrated at a side event in Bengaluru, India, alongside ETHIndia, where Waku has $10,000 in bounties available during the hackathon from 8th to 10th December.
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