Mina Protocol.
Geneva, Switzerland - Mina Foundation, the organization serving the Mina Protocol, has partnered with PunkPoll, an online voting and survey platform that today announces the launch of its Open Beta. The PunkPoll voting system allows for anonymous responses and protects personal privacy through a zero-knowledge-native design verified on Mina Protocol.
As part of the Open Beta launch, PunkPoll is integrating with KakaoTalk, a popular Korean-based messenger app with more than 150 million users worldwide. This integration is made possible by Mina's recursive zero-knowledge proofing technology, which enables the concise 22KB blockchain to be embedded in users' smartphones and everyday devices.
Joon Kim, a board member of the Mina Foundation, said of the partnership, "The holy grail of blockchain is finding killer use cases. PunkPoll, through its open beta, is positioned to showcase not only ZK voting for real-world users, ensuring privacy and security, but also decentralized identity verification through social graphing. We believe that PunkPoll not only demonstrates the potential of Mina's technology, but also serves as a beacon for the blockchain industry as a whole. The Mina Foundation is excited about what is yet to come through this partnership."
The Mina protocol uses zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), which allow one party to prove to another that a statement is true without revealing any information beyond the validity of the statement. By leveraging Mina's ZKP offerings for developers, PunkPoll minimizes the risk of revealing sensitive data while maintaining the transparency of the poll and verifying the uniqueness of users' identities.
PunkPoll's platform supports a wide range of polling and survey use cases and user preferences. Among these features, PunkPoll offers social graphing - a novel voter authentication method in which friends verify each other's identities, rather than relying on personal documents and centralized certification authorities. This approach enables identity verification based on human relationships and is a key part of PunkPoll's decentralized registration process.
Peter Baek, CEO of PunkPoll, added, "The goal of PunkPoll's service is to increase the transparency of voting processes and ensure the integrity of voting results while protecting voter privacy. By using recursive zero-knowledge proofs on Mina's high-performance Hodori Net, and soon on mainnet, we are simplifying the voting verification process and increasing the scalability of the system. We believe that the combination of these cutting-edge technologies effectively solves the problems that exist in existing voting systems.
PunkPoll launches its open beta service on the Mina Hodori Net with an anonymized "news based public opinion poll" system based on its zk-Voting infrastructure.
