Waku wallet

What is Waku (WAKU)?

WAKU is the token of Wakweli, a protocol for certifying that a digital item is what it claims to be, whether that is an NFT, a social profile or another piece of online data. Its consensus design, which the project calls Proof-of-Democracy, splits the work across roles: someone requests a certificate, certifiers issue it, electors take part in deciding, and challengers can dispute the outcome. WAKU is what those roles are denominated in, and it is the governance token of the protocol.

A warning about the name before anything else. There is a well-known peer-to-peer messaging protocol also called Waku, developed in the Status orbit, and it is a different thing entirely. If you searched the name and landed on documentation about message relays and light clients, that was not this token.

The token itself is a standard ERC-20 and exists on more than one EVM chain. The same ticker on two chains means two distinct balances, priced against different gas conditions: an Ethereum transfer costs ETH at Ethereum fee levels, while the Base one costs a fraction of that, also in ETH.

Supported networks in Tangem (2): Base, Ethereum.

Tangem shows those chains as separate lines and states which network a transfer is leaving on, so you can hold it against whatever the recipient told you before the card signs. One ticker sitting on two chains is precisely the case where that explicit labelling earns its place, and it is why WAKU is worth keeping in a wallet that never collapses the two into a single figure.