Private Voting in DAOs: Proof of concept developed by Aragon ZK Research + Aztec
Announcing a proof of concept for private voting on Ethereum; Meet PEERUP, a community launchpad built on Aragon OSx; Bring your business onchain with DAO Expert Thing3
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Aragon ZK Research and Aztec teamed up to develop a Proof of Concept for private voting for Nouns DAO as part of the three-month private voting research sprint. They concluded that the private voting needs for Nouns DAO are achievable and built a proof of concept to demonstrate it. Learn more about their exciting research in our blog, or dive into the general and technical reports released by the team.
Meet PEERUP, a community launchpad for organizations sharing a joint treasury, built on Aragon OSx. PEERUP is a mobile-first dApp providing coordination tools specifically for developer teams at hackathons and, more broadly, any community with shared assets. Underneath each organization on PEERUP is an Aragon OSx DAO. Learn more about PEERUP and their upcoming alpha launch here.
Bring your business onchain! Thing3 is a full-service consulting team that’s part of our DAO Experts program. They have experience in growth, accounting, public relations, and more. We spoke with their team in a twitter space: listen here.
Private Voting in DAOs: Proof of concept developed by Aragon ZK Research + Aztec
Aragon ZK Research and Aztec completed the private voting research sprint for Nouns DAO.
They concluded that a user-friendly, trustless (decentralized), fair (no one can count votes before a given time), weighted (voting power depends on the amount of tokens held/delegated) and ballot-secret (it is impossible to link a voter with a choice) voting system in Ethereum is possible.
The teams built a proof of concept (POC) following the parameters put forward by Nouns DAO. This proof of concept is not a live product, meaning it’s not market-ready or audited. In our case, you need to interact with the POC through the CLI, so you’re writing code rather than clicking on buttons in an interface.
The POC is important because it shows that trustless private voting on Ethereum is possible, which is exciting for the industry as a whole.
The only parameter not addressed in this research was weighted. This proof of concept allows one vote per NFT. So, if you own two NFTs, you will need to cast a ballot for each NFT separately.
You can test out the POC yourself. Here are the steps:
Register your wallet (done before voting for the first time)
Create the voting process
Cast your vote (repeating multiple times if you have multiple NFTs)
Tally the votes
Votes
No new votes.
Proposals
Financial proposal: investment into RPCh
Network Highlights
💡 Developer Spotlight: PEERUP
Meet PEERUP, a mobile-first dApp built on Aragon OSx providing transparent, secure governance and fund management for communities. Underneath every organization on PEERUP is an Aragon DAO!
They’re targeting developer teams at hackathons first, because these teams have shared treasuries from hackathon winnings and need to coordinate on how to distribute those funds.
PEERUP also has plans to use smart wallets to make it easy for users without web3 wallets to onboard to the platform!
🚨 DAO Radar: Around the world
DAOs break down borders, allowing anyone to come together to manage shared assets and coordinate to reach goals. Check out some of the DAOs built to achieve goals all over the world on the Aragon App!
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Hats Protocol, which composes with Aragon OSx, launched this week. Hats is a role management system for DAOs. To integrate Hats with your Aragon OSx DAO, you’ll need to build a custom solution. Learn more here.
Events
Moving your business onchain with Thing3
We had a conversation with Thing3, a DAO Expert providing full-service consulting, about bringing your business onchain.
EthSafari hackathon
We have a bounty live in the EthSafari hackathon. Registration is still open. Submissions are open until September 17.
Aragon DAO Framework for Community Solutions - $2K
Requirements:
Solve a local problem or need using Aragon (e.g., park management, elections, clubs).
Submission can be a dApp, Aragon OSx plugin, or prototype.
Utilize Aragon components (App, OSx, CLI, SDK) in your project.
Submit project description, pitch with demo, GitHub repository with README, and working prototype.
Creativity and innovation are rewarded!
Nouns Private Voting
We’ll chat with Aragon ZK Research and Aztec about their private voting demo and next steps for bringing private voting to more organizations.
September 5 at 12:00 pm UTC on Twitter Spaces
Actions
Dive into the private voting demo for Nouns DAO.
Listen to the conversation with Thing3 and set a reminder for the upcoming conversation with Aragon ZK and Aztec.
Register for EthSafari and compete for the Aragon bounty.
Have a great weekend!
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