Vitalik Buterin Advances Private Voting Infrastructure with zkMACI
Vitalik Buterin Advances Private Voting Infrastructure with zkMACI
🗳️ Vitalik's Secret Weapon
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is actively supporting the development of zkMACI, a zero-knowledge voting system that enables private, verifiable voting on-chain.
The technology has gained significant traction:
- Integration with Aragon: Private voting is now part of Aragon's DAO stack
- Demo-ready deployment: Available for bespoke builds today
- Zero-knowledge verification: Ensures vote privacy while maintaining transparency
zkMACI addresses a critical need in decentralized governance by providing transparency where it matters and privacy where it's critical. This infrastructure development represents a meaningful step toward more secure and private on-chain voting mechanisms.
The collaboration between Buterin and the zkMACI team highlights the importance of privacy-preserving technologies in the evolving DAO ecosystem.
Private voting with @zkMACI on the big screen. Great to see @VitalikButerin driving such a critical piece of infrastructure forward with us 🫡
It's amazing to see how much interest there is in privacy right now compared to a few years ago. If your project wants to be one of the first in the industry to pilot private voting on @AragonProject with @zkMACI don't hesitate to reach out! Thanks to @VitalikButerin for
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