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Recent podcast guests include: ◾ Whistleblower and security expert Edward Snowden: press.logos.co/podcasts/logos-state/edward-snowden-censorship-resistance-cyber-states-privacy ◾ Lawyer and human rights activist Stella Assange: press.logos.co/podcasts/logos-state/stella-assange-human-rights-alternative-modes-of-organising ◾ Robin Linus of ZeroSync and BitVM: press.logos.co/podcasts/hashing-it-out/robin-linus-zerosync ◾ Co-author of the Privacy Pools paper Ameen Soleimani: press.logos.co/podcasts/hashing-it-out/ameen-soleimani-privacypools

Technological breakthroughs have historically spurred great changes in the way humanity lives and organises.

The printing press democratised access to knowledge, leading to the Renaissance and Reformation. The advent of steam power fuelled the Industrial Revolution, prompting the growth of the working class and a swathe of movements demanding more just treatment of the underserved.

More recently, the Internet enabled instant, global communication and made humanity’s collective knowledge more accessible than ever. Wider access to information and the ability to organise led citizens worldwide to demand change, as seen in the Arab Spring uprisings.

Although hugely transformative, we believe central chokepoints like proprietary servers cap the Internet’s disruptive potential. To support institutions that compete with those currently monopolised by the nation state, we need a politically neutral network.

Logos is building technologies and standards to enable such a network.

◾ Waku provides a communications standard powering private and generalised messaging without central servers. ◾ Codex is a decentralised cloud storage system that removes central points of capture, control, and failure. ◾ Nomos is a forthcoming network of blockchains that protects users’ civil liberties and extends maximum sovereignty to those settling on the network.

Upon these foundations, Logos and other groups passionate about reforming society can deploy opt-in alternative systems that compete with government monopolies.

Spurred by competition, next-generation institutions will emerge.

In his latest post, Vitalik Buterin argues for a return to Ethereum’s original vision — a decentralised technology stack built to provide “the base layer of a more open internet”.

Through our development of Waku (Waku.org), Codex (Codex.storage), and Nomos (Nomos.tech), we are actively building the protocols required for this vision. The values Vitalik mentions, including open participation, censorship resistance, and credible neutrality, direct everything we build.

The cypherpunk torch remains lit; Logos is carrying it. vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/12/28/cypherpunk.html

Logos is building a censorship- and surveillance-resistant tech stack upon which communities can deploy voluntary, opt-in social, governance, and financial services.

This stack comprises the trustless agreements layer (nomos.tech),,) the durable data archiving layer (codex.storage),,) and the disintermediated communications layer (waku.org)..)

Today, let’s discuss Waku’s place in the Logos stack.

Corporate and government surveillance is real — remember the Snowden revelations? — and its reach grows every year.

Communication surveillance is frequently cited as a means to protect society from nefarious actors. However, programs like PRISM undermine the rights of hundreds of millions with little evidence that they prevent the threats they claim to guard against.

Waku is privacy-focused and generalised messaging infrastructure built as a public good. Waku is deployed via a P2P network, removing central intermediaries that could disrupt our communications through malicious intent or duress. The protocols leverage cutting-edge ZK tech to protect applications from DoS attacks in a decentralised manner.

When communicating ideas or with systems that potentially undermine national sovereignty, powerful entities have an even stronger incentive to monitor messages.

Waku can be used to make such surveillance infeasible, thus representing a crucial component of a tech stack built to protect civil liberties and lay the foundations of a network state future.

Waku’s modularity enables application developers to implement the protocols they need in accordance with their users’ privacy expectations and hardware availability.

When catering to resource-restricted environments like phones and browsers, devs can choose to integrate only those protocols with lower resource demands.

Scalability is also crucial. If only a handful of users can use Waku at any given time, its potential for adoption as the messaging layer for DApps is severely limited.

Waku employs sharding to limit the number of messages nodes must relay, thus enabling more concurrent users to benefit from the privacy-focused communications infrastructure.

Waku is already in production and can be integrated into web3 DApps today — see blockchain-based super app Status and Ethereum-based on-chain privacy solution RAILGUN for examples of Waku bringing decentralised communications to apps.

Ongoing optimisations look to further increase the network’s scalability, readying it for widespread adoption as the communications standard for web3 and the network state vision.

Learn more about Waku:

⚫ waku.org ⚫ docs.waku.org ⚫ github.com/waku-org ⚫ discord.waku.org ⚫ X.com/Waku_org