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DAO voters have long demanded permanent private voting. It’s now on Shutter’s roadmap. This post shares the architecture and a working POC showing how we’re extending threshold-encrypted voting with ElGamal-based homomorphic tallying - so votes are counted in the encrypted state and remain private.

We appreciate the thoughtful perspectives of the analysts at a16z Crypto on the limitations and potential of encrypted mempools in addressing MEV (Maximal Extractable Value). Their recent blog post raises valid points and highlights genuine challenges. That said, we see several key issues differently and offer a perspective informed by

To celebrate Ethereum's 10th anniversary, we invite the entire Ethereum ecosystem to leave its mark permanently on the chain.

Front-running, vote manipulation, and leaked moves are killing trust in dApps. This post breaks down how the commit-reveal works to fix this - and how Shutter upgrades it with threshold encryption to keep dApps fair, private, and tamper-proof.

CZ recently called for a dark pool-style perp DEX - but there’s no need to build a full FHE dark pool. Shutter API for Shielded Trading offers a scalable solution today using threshold encryption to stop malicious MEV across DEXs, OTC desks, and derivatives.

On-chain governance has gone mainstream - but every public vote is a signal that can be bought and coerced. There remains a huge privacy gap in how decisions are made. Shutter aims to help close it with on-chain Shielded Voting.

Kleros, the decentralized “court” of Web3, is upgrading its juror voting system to be more private and user-friendly. By integrating Shutter API’s Shielded Voting into Kleros Court V2, jurors will be able to cast secret votes that remain hidden until the case is closed - without the hassle of

Decent DAO’s Shutter API upgrade aims to restore voting confidence across DAOs.

The uncomfortable truth about trust-based MEV protections is that they are effective—until they fail.