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Waku Launches Decentralized DoS Protection, Set to Support 1M Users

Waku Launches First Decentralized and Privacy-Friendly DoS Protection Measures for Peer-to-Peer Messaging

The Waku network has announced a groundbreaking innovation in the world of decentralized messaging. It has launched the first decentralized and privacy-friendly DoS protection solution for peer-to-peer message transmission. This innovation paves the way for supporting up to a million users on the Waku network.

Waku Network MVP Ready for Web3 Apps

The team behind Waku, a leading privacy-oriented peer-to-peer communication protocol, announced that the open-source Waku network MVP is now ready to be tested by real users in Web3 apps. It is estimated that the MVP can support up to eighty thousand users. For comparison, the largest number of daily users in a peer-to-peer network was about one hundred and fifty thousand (BitTorrent in 2008).

Waku Network and Privacy

The Waku network introduces a message rate limit that provides DoS protection measures in a decentralized way, without compromising privacy or resilience to censorship. Users can join a group on the blockchain and prove their membership in each message in a way that requires no knowledge, so their privacy is never compromised.

Decentralized Communication Paths

So far, decentralized messaging has involved direct exchange between peer-to-peer identities such as blockchain addresses. However, the Waku network decentralizes the communication path itself. This is a breakthrough for the future of decentralized communication and allows for an even higher degree of privacy.

Scalability through Sharding

Scalability is greatly improved in the Waku network by introducing sharding. The Waku network was launched with eight shards. Modelling and simulations by Vac show that each shard can support up to ten thousand active users, while the bandwidth requirements for participating relay nodes remain reasonable.

About Waku

Waku is a public good developed to replace Ethereum’s Whisper when it became clear that it was not suitable for its intended purpose. Waku’s messaging protocols are blockchain-agnostic and can be implemented on any Web3 or even Web2 app. They are already used by Status, Railgun, and the Graph.

About Logos and Vac

Logos creates a self-determining, decentralized technology stack that protects civil liberties by design and can be used to create consent-based social, economic, and governing institutions. Waku serves as the communication layer for the Logos technology stack. Vac develops public protocols for the decentralized web. As an integral part of the Logos collective, Vac includes R&D service units, incubator projects, deep research, and the RFC (specification) process for Logos projects.

Source: AMBCrypto