Pehchan

Pehchan

More than a third of the country is dissatisfied with the electoral process. We are here to change that.

Created on 19th February 2023

Pehchan

Pehchan

More than a third of the country is dissatisfied with the electoral process. We are here to change that.

The problem Pehchan solves

Introduction

Pehchan serves as a platform for the efficient and secure conduct of elections. The immutability and transparency of the blockchain ensure that the elections can be held fairly. People can now vote remotely with platform. It aids to the elimination of tampered EVMs, low turnout, and fraudulent voting. It places more trust and confidence in the Election Commission of India by giving it exclusive control.

Reasons

  • Secure : With the implementation of blockchain, we are securing the identity of a voter is unique and is being used by the particular user.
  • Transparent : All the information will be open to public at every step in the election process.
  • Convenient : Application and vote tremotely from the comfort of their own homes.
  • Extensive Support : The average user who doesn't know about blockchain is given the choice to do social sign-in. There is support for every network like Arcana, Polygon, Filecoin and Metamask
  • Cost : The government has to spend a lot of money on every election conducted. With Pehchan the costs are greatly reduced by moving it online.
  • Speed : All the transactions are seammlessly processed over the respective networks with Polygon as our main network because of its high through-put.

Challenges we ran into

  • Determining how voters and candidates are specifically identified in the real world and incorporating the uniqueness into cryptocurrency wallets.
  • Figuring out how the material of the customised asset of the 3JS works.
  • Assessing the amount of data kept in a chain and striking a delicate balance between improved performance and more storage (use of loops to process data vs storing).
  • To make blockchain more accessible to the general public so that everyone can vote comfortably.
  • Arcana defaults to ethereum mainnet on login but our dashboard pages that used the injected address, but our contracts are on Polygon Mumbai. Alsp arcana doesn't maintain session persistence

Tracks Applied (5)

Polygon: Open Track

We build on Polygon simply because it's one of the most scalable solutions out there. Handling an election like the Gene...Read More

Polygon Technology

Filecoin Virtual Machine

Our contracts exist on Hyperspace test network and can work there as well. We hope to allow users to choose networks bas...Read More

Filecoin

Arcana

We needed a social sign-in/wallet abstraction that can help enable not-so-tech-savvy people to also participate in elect...Read More

Arcana Network

The Graph: New Subgraph(s)

We created a new subgraph with a query to capture and transform events emitted from our contract. The query finds the la...Read More

The Graph

Push Protocol

Candidates/Voters apply on our platform and go through a 3 stage verification process, labelled by 3 states. For each of...Read More

Push Protocol

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