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 Rust layer on top of [`go-waku`](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku) [C FFI bindings](https://github.com/waku-org/go-waku/blob/master/library/README.md).
 
+# How to build and run the toy-chat example
+
+- After cloning the repo run `git submodule update --init --recursive` to init all submodules.
+- Run the command `cargo build` to build the bindings
+- To run the toy-chat example
+
+  ```
+  cd examples/toy-chat
+  cargo run <name>
+  ```
+
 
 ## About Waku