Governance Applications

MACI is designed to be used in a variety of applications where stakes are high, and we believe that governance is one of them.

DAOs Governance

As a privacy-preserving, on-chain voting protocol, MACI can be used to run on-chain proposals were results execute smart contracts. Currently, public voting is problematic for DAOs as there is vote coercion, and bandwagon effects.

In 2023 Nouns DAO, Aztec and Aragon ZK Research joined to do a Private Voting Research Sprint. You can read the technical report here and the general report here.

Elections

We believe MACI could eventually be used in elections, where privacy is paramount. While we are still far from implementing government elections using MACI, work is being done to start testing the waters with college student councils. We are excited to continue working on making local elections a reality, together with our community and their contribution. Stay tuned.