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### Research Blog

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## What's the Plan for Waku v2?

July 1, 2020
by
Oskar
14 min read

Read about our plans for Waku v2, moving to libp2p, better routing, adaptive nodes and accounting!

## Feasibility Study: Discv5

April 27, 2020
by
Dean
6 min read

Looking at discv5 and the theoretical numbers behind finding peers.

## What Would a WeChat Replacement Need?

April 16, 2020
by
Oskar
26 min read

What would a self-sovereign, private, censorship-resistant and open alternative to WeChat look like?

## From Kademlia to Discv5

April 9, 2020
by
Dean
9 min read

A quick history of discovery in peer-to-peer networks, along with a look into discv4 and discv5, detailing what they are, how they work and where they differ.

## Waku Update

February 14, 2020
by
Oskar
6 min read

A research log. What's the current state of Waku? How many users does it support? What are the bottlenecks? What's next?

## DNS Based Discovery

February 7, 2020
by
Dean
6 min read

A look at EIP-1459 and the benefits of DNS based discovery.

## Fixing Whisper with Waku

December 3, 2019
by
Oskar
10 min read

A research log. Why Whisper doesn't scale and how to fix it.

## Feasibility Study: Semaphore rate limiting through zkSNARKs

November 8, 2019
by
Oskar
8 min read

A research log. Zero knowledge signaling as a rate limiting mechanism to prevent spam in p2p networks.

## P2P Data Sync with a Remote Log

October 4, 2019
by
Oskar
5 min read

A research log. Asynchronous P2P messaging? Remote logs to the rescue!

## Vac - A Rough Overview

August 2, 2019
by
Oskar
6 min read

Vac is a modular peer-to-peer messaging stack, with a focus on secure messaging. Overview of terms, stack and open problems.