Ensures proposals and votes can be cast anonymously, protecting participants from coercion, bribery, and surveillance while maintaining verifiable, censorship-resistant governance.
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Functionality
- Enable anonymous proposal submission
- Support secret ballot voting
- Provide private delegation mechanisms
- Implement verifiable vote tallying without revealing individual votes
- Support collusion resistance (MACI-style mechanisms)
+ (Privacy, Anonymity, Censorship-Resistance)
- Anonymous proposals (submit without revealing identity)
- Secret ballot voting (cast votes without exposing choice or voting power)
- Private delegation (delegate voting power confidentially)
- Verifiable tallying (prove vote outcome correctness without revealing individual votes)
- Prevent vote buying and coercion
Demand Validation
Potential Users: DAO members, protocol governance participants, community organizers
Use Cases:
- Protocol parameter changes with anonymous voting
- Treasury allocation decisions without plutocratic transparency
- Membership admission/revocation with secret ballots
- Emergency response coordination without exposing decision-makers
- Whistleblowing and sensitive proposal mechanisms
Possible Implementation
- MACI (Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure): Uses ZK proofs to prevent vote buying
- Private weighted voting: Stake-weighted votes with encrypted balances
- Threshold decryption: Votes encrypted until threshold met, then collectively decrypted
- ZK tallying: Homomorphic encryption or ZK circuits for private vote counting
Technical Validation
Risks & Challenges:
- Balancing privacy with accountability (preventing Sybil attacks)
- Enabling emergency governance override mechanisms
- Token-weighted vs. identity-based voting in privacy context
- Integration with private treasury management (multisig)