The Good Tech Companies - Ethereum L2 Taiko And DoraHacks Are Launching The Largest Anonymous Community Vote In Crypto History

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ethereum-l2-taiko-and-dorahacks-are-launching-the-largest-anonymous-community-vote-in-crypto-history. The initiative aims to advance decentralization in community governance through the Taiko Grant Factory Hackathon. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #taiko, #chainwire, #press-release, #taiko-announcement, #ethereum-layer-2-scaling, #crypto-exchange, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @chainwire. Learn more about this writer by checking @chainwire's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Taiko and DoraHacks are spearheading the biggest anonymous community vote ever conducted in Web3. The initiative aims to advance decentralization in community governance through the Taiko Grant Factory Hackathon. At the core of this vote is Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI), a privacy-preserving and collusion-resistant voting mechanism.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. Ethereum L2, TACO, and DORA Hacks are launching the largest anonymous community vote in crypto history, by Chainwire. Singapore, Singapore, February 7, 2025, Chainwire, Asterisk TACO, and Ethereum Layer 2 Network, and DORA Hacks, the largest hacker movement in crypto, are spearheading the biggest anonymous community vote ever conducted in Web3. The initiative aims to advance decentralization in community governance through the Tako Grant Factory Hackathon. The Tako Grant Factory Hackathon is designed to unleash developer creativity,

driving innovation, interactive applications, and projects with real-world impact. After months of intense competition, the finalists are now heading into the voting phase, one of the biggest steps yet toward large-scale, community-driven decision-making. At the core of this vote is minimal anti-collusion infrastructure, Macy, a game-changing privacy-preserving and collusion-resistant voting mechanism originally conceptualized by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Vitalik has long pointed out the fundamental flaws of traditional voting systems – fraud, collusion, privacy leaks – and Macy is Ethereum's answer to fixing them.

DoraFactory, the decentralized governance protocol, carried Vitalik's mission and shipped the best Macy product the market has seen. For the final round of Tako's Grant Factory Hackathon, voting will be executed entirely on-chain via Macy, ensuring encrypted ballots, zero-knowledge-proof integrity, and protection against vote buying and collusion. Users will submit their votes through smart contracts, with timestamps recorded on-chain, making the process transparent yet private. At the end of the voting round, results will be revealed by the designated operator, ensuring both fairness and credibility. As an incentive, TACO is distributing 50,000 trailblazer points top participants,

which will later translate into an airdrop. Greater than. This is decentralization in action, says Ben Wan, T Tako's community director. We're thrilled to bring Macy to this scale and grateful to the greater-than community for participating in Tako's growth. The future of Ethereum is greater-than decentralized, and we're here to make that happen, together. This vote isn't just big, it's historic. Over 920,000 participants are taking part, making it the largest whitelisted anonymous community vote in Ethereum's history. The voting event has attracted significant participation, with more than 920,000 individuals expected to take part, making it one of the largest

whitelisted anonymous community votes in Ethereum's history. Greater than Steve Nock, partner at DoraHacks, adds. We're incredibly excited to work with Greater Than Takeo on launching the biggest Macy-powered vote in Ethereum history. Greater Than DoraHacks and DoraFactory have committed resources to expanding Ethereum's Greater Than mission, advancing Macy for decentralized governance and privacy protection. We Greater Than look forward to exploring Macy's full potential alongside Tayco and its greater than dynamic community. About D-O-R-A-H-A-C-K-S DoraHacks is the world's largest hacker movement and a leading global platform for open-source funding, hackathons, and developer grants. Since its inception in 2014, DoraHacks has empowered 200,000 developers and funded 20,000

innovative startups in multiple frontier tech verticals in Web3, AI, Quantum and more. For more information on the TACO Grants Program, users can visit https colon slash slash TACO dot zi slash grant dash program dot contact Steve Knox Steve at dorahacks.com George Pagonis George at dorahacks.com Tip. And thank you for listening to this hackernoon story read by artificial intelligence visit hackernoon.com to read write learn and publish