TechFlow news — On February 2, Taiko, a Layer 2 project on Ethereum, announced in collaboration with global hackathon organizer DoraHacks the largest anonymous community voting event in history. The Taiko Grant Factory aims to encourage developers to work together to design innovative solutions, engaging applications, or projects with positive social impact. After months of effort, nine projects have been shortlisted and advanced to the final voting stage.
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Voting start date: February 1
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Voting end date: February 14
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Winners announcement: February 15
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Pioneers on the whitelist will receive 50,000 XP rewards through voting
Ben Wan, Chief Community Officer at Taiko, said: "Taiko is committed to advancing decentralization at every level. We are thrilled to bring this hackathon to its final voting phase. The enthusiasm shown by community members in participating in Taiko's ecosystem development and supporting builders has been truly inspiring. We look forward to supporting the winners and working together to build a truly decentralized future for Ethereum."
Steve Ngok, Partner at DoraHacks, said: "We are excited to collaborate with Taiko to launch the largest MACI community voting round in Ethereum's history in terms of whitelist size. The DoraHacks and Dora Factory teams have always been dedicated to continuing Vitalik’s and Ethereum’s mission by advancing the development of MACI to enable democratic governance and privacy protection. We look forward to expanding MACI's use cases and unlocking its greater potential together with Taiko and its large, vibrant community."
It is reported that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin first proposed the concept of "Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure" (MACI), a voting mechanism designed to ensure privacy and prevent collusion within community settings. Addressing issues such as fraud, vote-trading, and insufficient privacy in traditional voting systems, Vitalik suggested using on-chain technology to resolve these problems. MACI leverages zero-knowledge proofs to maintain ballot confidentiality while ensuring voting integrity, preventing bribery or coercive voting. In the MACI voting process, there are two main roles: operators and users. Users cast encrypted votes on-chain, submitting them to the MACI smart contract. These votes are timestamped on-chain, with content only visible to the operator. After voting concludes, the operator is responsible for publishing the final results.
