Proven on real hardware
Dated, factual notes as TAWK moves from specification to running hardware. Short on adjectives, long on things that actually happened.
Cross-radio relay demonstrated end to end
A TAWK message originated on a device with only a long-range, low-power radio and was delivered to a device with only a different radio type entirely — crossing three radio technologies through two independent relay devices. Every relay in the chain handled the message blind: able to pass it along, unable to read it. This is the first end-to-end demonstration of TAWK’s transport-agnostic relay on physical hardware, and it worked exactly the way the specification says it should.
The full protocol on low-cost embedded hardware
The complete TAWK node — routing, message envelopes, multi-hop relay — now runs on the class of inexpensive, battery-friendly microcontrollers used in consumer electronics, across three different board families. One device demonstrated bridging two radios at once, relaying between networks while participating in both.
A cleaner post-quantum core
The cryptographic core was migrated to a fully self-contained implementation of the NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms. The same codebase now builds for every processor family TAWK targets, with an extensive interoperability test suite passing on all of them. Work has also begun on hardware-accelerated coordinator configurations — the path to the independently validated, higher-assurance tiers described in the configurations.
Coordinator load testing
The coordinator design was load-tested across a fleet of machines, sustaining message volumes far beyond what any of the deployments described on this site would generate — on a single commodity computer. Detailed figures will be published after the current patent and export-review process completes.
TAWK is patent pending. Some technical detail is deliberately withheld while filings and export-control review are in process. If your evaluation needs specifics, get in touch: consulting@ckservicesllc.com.