Everyone talks about Ethereum giving us the holy trinity: compute, storage, communication
We got compute (smart contracts) We got storage (IPFS, Arweave)
But communication? It's been ghosted
That’s where @Waku_org caught my eye
Backstory is wild:
forked from Whisper in 2019 by the @ethstatus team when it couldn't scale. Now rebuilt by the Vac Research crew (same guys who’ve been in the trenches with Status since 2018)
And the numbers:
• Each shard = 10k+ users
• 8 shards live since Dec ’23
• 10x better than Whisper
• First to crack decentralized DoS protection
What makes it different from Push or XMTP?
No central servers, no spam headaches, no gas fees Just pure p2p works on browser, mobile, even machine to machine
The underrated part → Waku Connect API You can drop encrypted chat or notifications into a dApp in minutes. No infra headaches, no middlemen
Vitalik even called it the "true successor to Whisper" Gavin Wood literally imagined this back in 2014
While Big Tech controls the convos we have today
Waku is quietly building the one we actually need tomorrow:
private, censorship-resistant, built for scale
The decentralized web trinity might finally be complete
cc @0xcyp
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