Tornado Vote: Anonymous Blockchain-Based Voting

ePrint Report: Tornado Vote: Anonymous Blockchain-Based Voting

Robert Muth, Florian Tschorsch

Decentralized apps (DApps) often hold significant cryptocurrency assets. In order to manage these assets and coordinate joint investments, shareholders leverage the underlying smart contract functionality to realize a transparent, verifiable, and secure decision-making process. That is, DApps implement proposal-based voting. Permissionless blockchains, however, lead to a conflict between transparency and anonymity; potentially preventing free decision-making if individual votes and intermediate results become public. In this paper, we therefore present …

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