Shielded Voting
Shielded Voting prevents certain forms of voting manipulation that can reduce participation and sway the outcome of community voting on DAOs.
The most trusted and widely used DAO voting protection, and it’s free:
- Shielding 634 DAOs
- Safeguarded 2,330+ proposals
- Encrypted 298,000+ cast votes
- 87% DAOs Continue to Use Shielded Voting after 1 Year
Notable DAOs using Shielded Voting
- arbitrumfoundation.eth
- tomoondao.eth
- layer2dao.org
- shapeshiftdao.eth
- doodles.eth
- banklessvault.eth
- alpacafinance.eth
- paraswap-dao.eth
- token-engineeringacademy.eth
- giv.eth
- sporkdao.eth
Why is Vote Protection Needed?
Voting is crucial in DAOs for decision-making. We expect these systems to be transparent and fair. However, today's DAO voting is often manipulated and lacks privacy, leading to unfair results.
Live voting results can sway voters based on early trends, and last-minute voting by whales (large token holders) can significantly impact the final outcome.
Shielded Voting Restores Voting Fairness
Using encryption, Shielded Voting keeps voting private during the voting period by only showing the total votes overall. Once voting ends, individual votes are revealed.
This prevents whales (big token holders) from manipulating results.
- See demo of Shielded Voting on Snapshot
- Learn more about the advanced encryption technology behind Shielded Voting
Enable Shielded Voting on Snapshot
Shielded Voting functionality is available to all DAOs and can be turned on instantly by the snapshot space admin. See if your DAOs’ voting is encrypted.
- Visit: https://snapshot.org/
- Log in: Make sure you are an admin or controller of the space.
- Go to Settings: Navigate to the settings page.
- Select Voting: Find the “Voting” section.
- Choose Shutter: Select "Shutter" as the privacy option.
- Save Changes: Click “Save”.
- Done: All future proposals will use shielded voting. You can disable it anytime.
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