Tagged: voting

Blockchain Adoption: Cardano (ADA) Developers Seek Feedback Regarding Progress Toward Intoducing CIP-1694

The Cardano (ADA) community can voice their opinion on the progress toward rolling out CIP-1694 in a Cardano Ballot planned for December 1, 2023. The feedback received is described as a sort of a “temperature check” on “the progress thus far and will inform the… Read More

Broadridge, SLIB to Provide French Market Voting Solution for Global Investors

Extending their joint strategic commitment to modernize and enhance shareholder voting in the French market, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) and SLIB, a software editor for electronic voting and securities services based in France,  announced “the go-live of their joint end-to-end global voting solution.”… Read More

Investment Platform Lightyear Introduces Free Shareholder Engagement, Voting for Retail Investors

European investment platform Lightyear has rolled out voting alongside in-app communication, “giving shareholders and publicly traded companies a seamless way to engage with each other.” This feature is “a first for many countries around Europe, where this level of ownership and transparency is lacking for… Read More

Blockchain or DLT-based Voting Considered by US Senate as an Alternative to Traditional Methods During COVID-19 Crisis

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has made it quite difficult for the United States Congress to conduct meetings and deliberate. Lawmakers have offered suggestions regarding how to keep things going during the ongoing crisis. As mentioned in a Senate memo posted on April 30, 2020, blockchain-based… Read More

Report: Blockchain-based Voting Systems are Vulnerable to Attacks and May Provide Low-Quality Data

Nir Kshetri, a professor of management at the University of North Carolina, says that there are some major issues that must be addressed before blockchain-enabled voting can be carried out in a safe and trustworthy manner. Kshetri noted that “small-scale tests run so far have… Read More

Deputy of Russian Ruling Party Proposes Experimental Use of “Blockchain” Tech for Voting in Next Moscow Election

Russian state media outlet TASS reported February 26th that Dmitry Vyatkin, a deputy in Russia’s ruling United Russia party, has introduced a bill to have the Moscow City Duma (city hall) use an experimental blockchain voting system in the city’s next election. According to an… Read More

Cornell Researchers: Blockchain Will Make Online Voting Worse, Not Better

Incorporation of blockchain tech would give a false sense of security to Internet voting, which is a fundamentally insecure proposal, say researchers from Cornell University’s Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts. Blockchain has been touted as an excellent way to diminish fraud in supply chains and… Read More

Catching Waves: New System Protocol for Blockchain, Launches SIMDAQ on Tidex

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The Waves Platform, a decentralized global platform offering an ecosystem for blockchain developers, has begun its process of activating Smart Contracts on the platform’s MainNet. According to the platform, Waves released a new system protocol for its blockchain, the first stage of the launch of Smart… Read More

Votem Plans Public Token Pre-Sale for Mobile Blockchain Voting App: Restoring Trust & Access to Voting

It’s no secret that the mobile voting sector is ripe for much-needed innovation and disruption. Votem, a Cleveland-based blockchain-based voting platform, saw this niche when the startup launched in 2016. Now Votem has put a public presale of Simple Agreements for Future Tokens (SAFT) for… Read More

Waves Platform Utilizes Blockchain for New “Liquid Democracy” Voting System

Earlier this year Crowdfund Insider spoke to CEO Pete Martin about Votem and its own securing public, private and proxy global election systems, which builds on a blockchain-based solution giving democracy back to the people with a swift, safe and secure electoral process. As expected, other platforms… Read More

Votem CEO Pete Martin: Leveraging Blockchain to Secure Global Mobile Voting & Rocking the Vote

“We can do online voting on blockchain in a highly scalable way, and that’s what we did.” Focusing on solving the problem of securing public, private and proxy global election systems, Votem offers a blockchain-based solution which aims to give democracy back to the people by allowing… Read More

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