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      <title>EBSI meets DAVINCI: how UPC used European blockchain infrastructure for private student voting</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>What if students could vote in a binding election using only their university ID, with full privacy and verifiability, and without downloading anything? That's exactly what UPC and the DAVINCI protocol demonstrated. The full case study is live.</description>
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      <title>Catalonia's education unions choose Vocdoni to consult nearly 100,000 public school teachers</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>In four days, more than 60,000 teachers in Catalonia cast their vote on whether to endorse the preliminary agreement with Catalonia's Department of Education. Three different unions ran the consultation together with Vocdoni, a voting technology that is secure, verifiable and secret by design.</description>
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      <title>How Vocdoni and Society22 secured the 2026 Coordination Council of Belarus election</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Belarus’ 2026 Coordination Council election faced 24 billion malicious requests and 68TB of attack traffic. Despite sustained cyberattacks, Vocdoni and Society22 kept the election online, verifiable, and censorship-resistant, enabling 2,113 participants to vote securely.</description>
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      <title>How Plataforma per la Llengua runs online voting for its 26,000 members across four states using Vocdoni</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A dispersed membership is not a reason to run a lesser election. Plataforma per la Llengua, shows how an organization spread across multiple territories can give every member equal vote, wherever they are.</description>
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      <title>Ask the World - A DAVINCI miniapp powered by Self Protocol</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Most digital voting systems still break down at the identity layer. You can make ballots verifiable and censorship resistant, but if you cannot enforce…</description>
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      <title>What political parties need from an online voting provider</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Political party elections demand more than convenience, they require verifiable legitimacy. This article explains the seven essential standards any online voting platform must meet, from structural neutrality and cryptographic secrecy to censorship resistance and independently verifiable results.</description>
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      <title>Introducing NI-DKG: A Non-Interactive, zkSNARK based Distributed Key Generation Protocol</title>
      <link>https://vocdoni.io/en/blog/introducing-ni-dkg</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Vocdoni has developed a new DKG protocol that is non-interactive by design, operationally async in practice, and built from standard cryptographic primitives.</description>
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      <title>Vocdoni App 2.3 adds hybrid voting support, weighted voting, vote delegation and more</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Vocdoni App 2.3 introduces weighted voting, vote delegation and Live Censuses to support real-world governance workflows, including hybrid voting scenarios.</description>
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      <title>How COIB, a professional body of nurses, ran its 2025 Annual General Meeting vote online securely and with instant results</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>How can professional associations run a secure AGM vote with hybrid participation? In this case study, COIB used Vocdoni to enable 2FA-secured online voting with instant results, removing travel barriers and saving members up to €50 in travel costs.</description>
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      <title>From blockchain voting to cryptographic voting</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>For the past years, Vocdoni has run voting on Vochain, our purpose-specific voting L1 blockchain. Like any blockchain, it gave us something powerful:…</description>
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      <title>Announcing Vocdoni App: Making secure online voting accessible to every organization</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>We are launching the Vocdoni App: an easy-to-use SaaS platform designed to democratize access to secure, verifiable, privacy-first, and easy digital voting.</description>
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      <title>DAVINCI: the voting protocol that meets the criteria for universal adoption</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>We successfully raised $1 million pre-seed round from angel investors to develop DAVINCI. DAVINCI overcomes the limitations of existing voting systems, offering a censorship-resistant, gasless, anti-bribery, scalable, and anonymous solution for digital governance.</description>
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      <title>Vocdoni and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) partner to advance anticoercion, transparent, and anonymous digital voting</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>This partnership marks a significant step in trustworthy digital voting. It bridges academia and open-source innovation to ensure secure and accessible democratic participation worldwide.</description>
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      <title>Esquerra Republicana political party membership vote with Vocdoni: 77.12% turnout in a decisive political decision</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Esquerra Republicana used Vocdoni to run a decisive political party membership vote with 77.12% turnout and results available seconds after closing, proof that secure, verifiable high‑stakes voting can scale.</description>
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      <title>New Belarus implements Vocdoni Protocol for transparent Coordination Council elections</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The voting was a success, with 6,723 votes cast and international observers.</description>
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      <title>Vocdoni partners with Gitcoin Passport to offer Sybil-resistant voting</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Sybil attacks, where a single individual uses multiple accounts to manipulate vote outcomes, pose a significant threat to the integrity of voting systems.…</description>
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      <title>Vocdoni partners with Holonym for enhanced privacy-first voting</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>We're excited to announce a strategic partnership between Vocdoni and Holonym, to simplify the way users authenticate on digital votes while dramatically…</description>
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      <title>Road to Anonymous Binding Voting for Ethereum</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>At Vocdoni, our main objective is to build technology that enables frictionless and secure voting processes on Ethereum.</description>
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      <title>Technical Deep-Dive: Anonymous Voting with zk-SNARKs</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Discover the technical specifications of Vocdoni's anonymous voting and how we arrived at this design.</description>
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      <title>Binding Execution on Ethereum with zk-Rollups</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The latest research from Vocdoni into secure, off-chain voting processes.</description>
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      <title>Bellpuig Council’s digital referendum with Vocdoni: A municipal success story</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Bellpuig Council partnered with Vocdoni to run Spain’s first 100% digital public consultation, making participation easy and safe while reaching 1,095 voters (31.67% turnout).</description>
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      <title>L2 Governance Models</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A technical overview of three Layer-2 governance &amp; voting models on Ethereum.</description>
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      <title>Introducing the Vocdoni Ballot Protocol</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Vocdoni Ballot Protocol The core innovation of the Vocdoni core protocol is in implementing the first ever decentralized, censorship-resistant, and…</description>
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