Vac
In 2019 I founded Vac, an R&D
org building public good protocols for the decentralized web, with a
focus on privacy and communication. In 2023 I left the project.
Since then Vac has grown to 20+ contributors, and it is now in good
hand with many talented individuals, supported by free.technology.
As part of Vac, we created Waku, Zerokit and wrote many
protocol specifications. Here are some
relevant links:
- Using ZKP
for better p2p messaging with Waku (Devcon6, Bogotá) [video]
2022-11-16
- Building
Privacy-Protecting Infrastructure 2022-11-04
- Building
Privacy-Protecting Infrastructure (Devcon6, Bogotá) [video]
2022-10-14
- WAKU-RLN-RELAY:
Privacy-Preserving Peer-to-Peer Economic Spam Protection (Sanaz
Taheri Boshrooyeh, Oskar Thorén, Barry Whitehat, Wei Jie Koh, Onur
Kilic, Kobi Gurkan) 2022-06-30
- vacp2p/zerokit
[code] A set of ZK modules designed to be used in
different environments 2022-01-17
- Vac
Sustainability and Business Workshop 2021-12-20
- Regulatory and
legal considerations ((Vac Business Workshop, slides)
2021-12-13
- On
ZK gas costs and scaling solutions today, tomorrow and beyond (forum
post) 2021-10-17
- Vac <3 ZK
2021-09-01
- [Talk at
COSCUP] Vac, Waku v2 and Ethereum Messaging 2021-08-06
- Vac, Waku
v2和以太坊的消息傳遞 (中文字幕/English subtitles) (COSCUP 2021,
Taipei) [video] Also see slides
2021-08-06
- ZKPs for
Spam Protection & Decentralized Messaging with Status
(ZKPodcast) [audio] (Oskar Thorén and Sanaz Taheri-Boshrooyeh)
2021-06-23
- [Talk] Vac,
Waku v2 and Ethereum Messaging 2020-11-10
- Vac, Waku
v2 and Ethereum Messaging (Taipei Ethereum Meetup, Taipei)
[video] 2020-11-05
- Waku v2
Update 2020-09-28
- What’s the Plan for
Waku v2? 2020-07-01
- Waku
Version 2 Pitch (forum post) 2020-06-26
- RFC:
Topic propagation extension to libp2p PubSub (forum post)
2020-06-04
- waku-org/nwaku
[code] Waku node and protocol 2020-04-28
- What Would a
WeChat Replacement Need? 2020-04-16
- From
Whisper to Waku (ETHCC3, Paris) [video] (Dean Eigenman, Oskar
Thorén) 2020-03-03
- Waku Update
2020-02-03
- Private
and Reliable Data Sync for Messaging Over Whisper (Devcon5, Osaka)
[video] (Dean Eigenmann & Oskar Thorén) 2019-12-09
- Fixing Whisper
with Waku 2019-12-03
- Feasibility
Study: Semaphore rate limiting through zkSNARKs 2019-11-08
- P2P Data Sync with a
Remote Log 2019-10-04
- Vac - A
Rough Overview 2019-08-02
- P2P Data Sync
for Mobile 2019-07-19
- Vac.dev Vac
website 2019-07-17
- vacp2p/rfc
[code] Vac RFCs 2019-06-18
- (Mostly)
Data Sync Research Log 2019-03-15
- Whisper v2
Implementation Panel (EthCC2, Paris) [video] (Fatemeh Shirazi,
Oskar Thorén, & Sebastian Bürgel, Harry Halpin) 2019-03-11
- vacp2p/research
[code] Thinking in code 2018-12-18