Japanese City Trials Blockchain Voting for Social Development Programs The Japanese city of Tsukuba has tested a blockchain-based system that lets residents cast votes to decide on local development programs.… Read More
West Virginia to Offer Statewide Blockchain Voting in Midterm Election After a pilot conducted in May, officials from West Virginia are bringing the blockchain voting app to all 55 of the state’s counties.… Read More
The ‘Dark DAO’ Threat: Vote Vulnerability Could Undermine Crypto Elections According to researchers at Cornell, blockchains utilizing on-chain voting – such as EOS and Tezos – are vulnerable to certain vote buying attacks.… Read More
Russian Firm Will Reward Staff With Crypto Tokens Tied to Profits The blockchain subsidiary of the Russian e-payments firm Qiwi plans to incentivize staff by giving them tokens tied to the firm’s net profits.… Read More
Swiss City Plans Blockchain Voting Pilot Using Ethereum-Based IDs The Swiss City of Zug is launching a pilot that will allow residents to vote electronically, with both polling system and IDs based on blockchain.… Read More
Experimental Voting Effort Aims to Break Ethereum Governance Gridlock Vitalik Buterin has suggested experimenting with quadratic voting, a governance model furthered by Dr. Glen Weyl, on the ethereum platform. … Read More
Santander Conducts Proxy Voting Blockchain Pilot at AGM Banco Santander has completed a blockchain pilot that it says improves the process of proxy voting during annual general meetings.… Read More
Sumatra to Pilot Blockchain App for ‘Decentralised Decision-Making’ Australian startup Horizon State is launching a blockchain app pilot in Sumatra that could eventually allow citizens to vote in elections.… Read More
Ethereum’s Dialogue Divide Is Slowing Answers to Its Toughest Questions In the wake of new growth, developers working on the world’s second-largest blockchain are struggling to determine how best to gauge user sentiment.… Read More
The Early Returns from Sierra Leone’s First Blockchain Vote Are In The first-ever results of a presidential election tracked on a blockchain are in, but some problems not even distributed ledgers can solve.… Read More