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The MVP release of the Waku Network provides first-of-its-kind denial-of-service (DoS) protections that do not compromise privacy or censorship resistance. This release paves the way for supporting one million users on the Waku Network. 7th December 2023, Bengaluru, India.  The team behind Waku, a leading privacy-first peer-to-peer communications protocol, announced that the open-source Waku Network MVP is now ready to be trialed with real users in web3 apps. The MVP is estimated to support up to eighty thousand users.  Comparatively, the largest number of daily users on a peer-to-peer network was around one hundred and fifty thousand (BitTorrent in 2008). The Waku Network is set to scale beyond this, with all peers participating in a shared routing layer and a focus on preserving user privacy.  The Waku Network introduces message rate-limiting, which provides DoS protections in a decentralized way without compromising privacy or censorship resistance. Individuals can join a group on-chain and prove their membership in each message in a zero-knowledge way, so their privacy is never compromised. At launch, publishers are limited to one message per second but the Waku team is exploring alternative models. This is a significant advancement in decentralized messaging, which, until now, has yet to offer viable solutions to DoS or spam messaging that do not compromise privacy or censorship resistance. The Waku Network is the first-ever useable implementation of decentralized routing for a generalized and shared communications layer. The routing layer refers to the path a message takes when it is being sent from one peer to another. Traditionally, decentralized messaging has involved direct communication between peer-to-peer identities like blockchain addresses. However, the Waku Network decentralizes the communication path itself. This is a breakthrough in the future of decentralized communications, allowing an even greater degree of privacy. Scalability is also greatly improved in the…

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