Problems Solving

• Public voting: On public blockchains, voting data can be seen at any point. This reveals what individual addresses are voting for. Additionally, subsequent voters can see what prior users have voted for which can bias their decision.
• Restrictive voting styles: Traditionally blockchain voting models have had to stick to simplistic systems such as First Past the Post due to computational overhead incurring excessive gas costs. On zkSync, the chain is scalable enough to facilitate more complex voting styles that arguably come to a better consensus such as Ranked Choice Voting, Single Transferable Vote and Quadratic Voting.
• Only available for blockchain users: In order to vote on a blockchain, users had to already have a blockchain wallet and funds to pay for the voting transaction. zkSync's native account abstraction is leveraged to allow social logins and a Gasmaster is deployed to fund their transactions. This massively lowers the barrier for entry, as users simply need an email to receive their unique voting code.

Use Cases

priveasyVoting is a flexible protocol that can be adapted for a wide range of use cases. In it's current form, there are multiple ways to allow blockchain and non-blockchain users to vote. The protocol could very easily be utilized to enable sending voting links via alternative sources such as through social media or SMS.