Back in 2018, we started Vocdoni after identifying some flaws in the way people vote. Traditional paper ballots can be slow to count, hard to audit, and vulnerable to tampering. Onchain voting solves some of those issues but adds new ones, such as high fees, poor privacy, vote buying, “follow-the-crowd” pressure, and limits on how many voters it can handle. Inspired by how Bitcoin and Ethereum opened finance to anyone with an internet connection, we wondered: why not do the same for democracy...