Waku Service Marketplace: Decentralized Infrastructure for dApps
Waku is a generalized peer-to-peer (P2P) communication protocol stack built on libp2p. It provides secure, decentralized messaging and is used by projects like Status, Railgun, and The Graph. An emerging idea is a Waku-based service marketplace, where developers can pay independent providers to deliver infrastructure services, such as querying historic messages, directly to their users off-chain. Using a marketplace instead of running their own nodes reduces complexity for dapp developers, avoids single points of failure, and improves decentralization. Additionally, users could interact with the marketplace directly, choosing providers without relying on the dApp developer. Marketplace consumers would maintain a reputation system to filter out providers with poor service. The marketplace concept is still in early stages. This talk presents the idea, outlines key challenges, and invites technical feedback.