Abstract:In this paper, we propose WAKU-RLN-RELAY as a spam-protected gossip-based routing protocol that can run in heterogeneous networks. It features a privacy-preserving peerto-peer (p2p) economic spam protection mechanism. WAKU-RLN-RELAY addresses the performance and privacy issues of the state-of-the-art p2p spam prevention techniques including peer scoring utilized by libp2p, and proof-of-work used by e.g., Whisper, the p2p messaging layer of Ethereum. In WAKU-RLN-RELAY, spam protection works by limiting the mess… Show more
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