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+# wasmCloud
+
+## Name of project
+
+wasmCloud
+
+## Project description
+
+wasmCloud is a universal application platform that helps you build and run globally distributed WebAssembly applications on any cloud and any edge.
+
+Our goal is to make development more joyful and efficient by giving developers the tools to write only the code that matters—and making it easy to run that code anywhere.
+
+wasmCloud leverages WebAssembly's security, portability, and performance to compose applications from tiny, independent building blocks.
+
+These building blocks are managed declaratively and reconfigurable at runtime. You shouldn't need to recompile your whole app to upgrade a database client or patch a vulnerability. You shouldn't need to recompile anything to move your app from development to production.
+
+wasmCloud is designed around the following core tenets:
+- Distributed from day one
+- Run anywhere and everywhere
+- Secure by default
+- Faster iteration and lower maintenance
+
+**Move from concept to production without changing your design, architecture, or your programming environment.**
+
+### Impact and Features
+
+wasmCloud is a cloud native application runtime for distributed WebAssembly applications. Developers write code in their preferred language, compile it to a WebAssembly component, and deploy it to the wasmCloud runtime. The wasmCloud runtime provides a secure, distributed, and portable execution environment for WebAssembly modules.
+
+wasmCloud is designed to be a _better_ way to write, deploy and manage applications. Using WebAssembly for the unit of compute removes the responsibility of the user to consider the target operating system or architecture. Explicit communication protocols to access resources outside of the WebAssembly sandbox provide a secure-by-default environment and keeps developers from creating brittle specific security policies to lock down an application. The use of NATS for inter-service communication lets microservices and monoliths written as wasmCloud applications be deployed anywhere and communicate seamlessly whether they are running on the same machine or on opposite sides of the globe. NATS also provides common service-mesh capabilities without the heavyweight management of a layer 7 mesh like load balancing, immediate failover and service discovery. These concepts are abstracted for the individual developer and are handled automatically (but can be tuned for advanced users.)
+
+wasmCloud integrates directly into modern cloud native environments. At the base level the wasmCloud runtime is a native binary that can run on x86_64 and aarch64 architectures (with more like riscv64 coming soon). We also distribute a multi-platform container image and a helm chart for Kubernetes deployment. Being compatible with but not dependent upon containers and Kubernetes allows wasmCloud to be deployed in a variety of environments from the cloud to the edge, on different clouds and using different orchestrators. wasmCloud supports running its WebAssembly binaries by downloading from OCI compliant registries (AzureCR, GHCR, etc), exporting traces to [OTEL](https://opentelemetry.io/) compatible collectors, and defines its declarative application manifests using the [Open Application Model](https://oam.dev/). All events published from wasmCloud use the CloudEvents format. Soon, wasmCloud will add metrics support using [Prometheus](https://prometheus.io/).
+
+## Preferred maturity level
+
+Incubation
+
+## Sponsor / Advisor from Toc
+
+Ricardo Rocha
+
+## License
+
+All wasmCloud code is licensed under Apache 2: [https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/blob/main/LICENSE](https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/blob/main/LICENSE)
+
+## Source control
+
+All wasmCloud code is open source under the [https://github.com/wasmcloud/](https://github.com/wasmcloud/) organization, which belongs to CNCF enterprise GitHub.
+
+## Issue tracker
+
+wasmCloud issues are tracked under their specific repositories in the [https://github.com/wasmcloud/](https://github.com/wasmcloud/) organization, most issues from bugs to feature requests to RFCs are filed under [wasmcloud/wasmcloud](https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues). Issues that represent the high level goals and roadmap of the project are then tracked on our [wasmCloud Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/wasmCloud/projects/7/views/3).
+
+## Website
+
+Our blogs, community meeting notes and documentation are available on [https://wasmcloud.com/](https://wasmcloud.com/).
+
+## Community size and any existing sponsorship
+
+wasmCloud joined the CNCF as a Sandbox Application Runtime project on July 13th, 2021. Since joining the CNCF as a sandbox project we've seen steady community growth and adoption.
+
+- GitHub organization stars: 2500+
+- Contributors: [80+](https://landscape.cncf.io/?item=orchestration-management--scheduling-orchestration--wasmcloud)
+- Pull Requests: [3000+](https://wasmcloud.devstats.cncf.io/d/24/prs-merged-repository-groups?orgId=1&var-period=y&var-repogroups=All&from=now-4y&to=now)
+- Commits: [18000+](https://wasmcloud.devstats.cncf.io/d/2/commits-repository-groups?orgId=1&from=now-4y&to=now&var-period=y&var-repogroups=All)
+
+### Company Contributors
+
+wasmCloud has accepted contributions from the following companies (in order of contribution volume):
+
+- Capital One Financial Corporation
+- Amazon
+- Bytedance Ltd
+- wasmCloud
+- Lucid
+- Google LLC
+- Independent
+- Microsoft Corporation
+- Roku
+- Red Hat Inc.
+- Stacklet
+- Jammin Music
+- Critical Stack
+- Red Badger Consulting Limited
+- DaoCloud Network Technology Co. Ltd.
+- NetApp Inc
+- Cosmonic
+- Conductor
+- SnT
+- PingCAP
+- CapTech Venture
+- Abstract Tokenization
+- One Agency
+- HMBradley
+- arvreal
+- DeMark
+- Machine Sciences
+- Sharply
+- Spora Solutions
+- Vino
+- Giant Swarm GmbH
+- Leafly
+- NielsenIQ
+- Change Healthcare
+- earth
+- Codemancers
+- Fugro
+- Deutsche Telekom
+- Adobe
+- Povio Labs
+- SecureDocs
+- Datadog Inc
+- Sourcēvo
+- Volvo
+- Antgroup
+- Enabled Business Solutions Limited
+- Liquid Reply
+- Shape Security
+- Branch Metrics Inc.
+- CJ Affiliate
+- Fidelity Investments
+- Genobank.io
+- Heinlein
+- Instana Inc.
+- Intel Corporation
+- Letter
+- Nascent LLC
+- Northfield
+- phpMyAdmin
+- Recurly Inc.
+- SUSE LLC
+- Tinfoil
+
+## Adopters
+
+Our current self-reported adopters are listed on our [wasmCloud adopters document](https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/blob/main/ADOPTERS.md). Our adopters run wasmCloud at varying levels of scale. Cosmonic runs wasmCloud in production at scale to host the entire backend of their platform, and has been a major contributor to the project.
+
+## Communication channels (slack, irc, mailing lists)
+
+We primarily communicate on Slack, available publicly at [https://slack.wasmcloud.com](https://slack.wasmcloud.com). We also monitor the [#wasmcloud](https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C027YTXEYFL) channel on the CNCF Slack.
+
+We run what we call "wasmCloud Wednesdays" every Wednesday at 1pm EST and have not missed a meeting since we started on 18 Nov 2020. It is on the [CNCF community calendar](https://tockify.com/cncf.public.events/detail/662/1698253200000).
+
+### Appendix
+
+- Adobe published a case study [Better together: A Kubernetes and Wasm case study](https://www.cncf.io/blog/2022/11/17/better-together-a-kubernetes-and-wasm-case-study/) as a CNCF end-user blog detailing their experience using wasmCloud and Kubernetes in tandem for more efficient, secure applications.
+- OSTIF + Trail of Bits recently completed a security audit of wasmCloud and found no medium, high or critical vulnerabilities. The full report is available at [https://ostif.org/ostif-has-completed-a-security-audit-of-wasmcloud/](https://ostif.org/ostif-has-completed-a-security-audit-of-wasmcloud/).
+- Orange evolved their edge strategy with WebAssembly & wasmCloud, and spoke at KubeCon EU 2024 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sWQqgK-79c&list=PLj6h78yzYM2MQteKoXxICTWiUdZYEw6RI&index=6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sWQqgK-79c&list=PLj6h78yzYM2MQteKoXxICTWiUdZYEw6RI&index=6).
+- MachineMetrics uses wasmCloud and NATS to process high velocity machine data on the factory floor, highlighting this case study at their talk at KubeCon EU 2024 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQdkNGZqYZA&list=PLj6h78yzYM2MQteKoXxICTWiUdZYEw6RI&index=6](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQdkNGZqYZA&list=PLj6h78yzYM2MQteKoXxICTWiUdZYEw6RI&index=6).
+
+## Project logo in svg format
+
+All logos can be found in the wasmCloud branding repository:
+[https://github.com/wasmCloud/branding](https://github.com/wasmCloud/branding)
+
+The primary logo used on the CNCF landscape is located at [https://github.com/cncf/landscape/blob/master/hosted_logos/wasmcloud.svg](https://github.com/cncf/landscape/blob/master/hosted_logos/wasmcloud.svg)
+
+## CNCF Due Diligence (DD) Document
+
+The wasmCloud CNCF Due Diligence document is located in a Google document: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MVY2mPqoAbHOGSCKwELS8KwbHkW3v8QS0mMSzHCSi00](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MVY2mPqoAbHOGSCKwELS8KwbHkW3v8QS0mMSzHCSi00)