what's Waku?
Waku is a family of robust, censorship-resistant communication protocols designed to enable privacy-focused messaging for Web3 applications. It facilitates private and secure human-to-human, machine-to-machine, and human-to-machine communication without reliance on centralized intermediaries, supporting scalable one-to-one and many-to-many messaging. Evolving from Ethereum's Whisper protocol, Waku realizes Gavin Wood's vision for decentralized communication as highlighted by Vitalik Buterin.
Vitalik endorsed Waku as Whisper's successor, powering apps like Status.
Received endorsement from Vitalik Buterin describing Waku as the evolved successor to Whisper and noting it already powers multiple applications including Status.
nipsysdev launches Ash, a censorship-resistant coordination tool featuring offline maps and encrypted group chat built on Waku and Tor Project infrastructure for activists and community responders.
RealFi Hack bounty program in partnership with Funding Commons and Tor Project closes on October 16, featuring two tracks for privacy infrastructure and resilient activist technology development using Waku.
New technical integration launched with Fileverse, incorporating Waku for stateless real-time collaboration in their v0.2 product release.
New technical collaboration launched with Codex to develop censorship-resistant file sharing capabilities.
TokenGate campaign launched with secret code system, where users can earn secret points by participating in community activities.