# Vocdoni partners with Holonym for enhanced privacy-first voting

We're excited to announce a **strategic partnership between Vocdoni and Holonym**, to simplify the way users authenticate on digital votes while **dramatically raising the bar for privacy**. This system complements Vocdoni's other privacy features, including [anonymous identity through zkSNARKs](/blog/anonymous-voting-zksnarks).

By combining Vocdoni's secure blockchain-based voting technology with Holonym's zero-knowledge identity verification systems¹, **we're tackling the pivotal challenge of ensuring voter authenticity without sacrificing privacy**. This collaboration opens a new era of **Sybil-resistant, transparent and accessible voting**, promising to enhance democratic processes worldwide for both Web2 and Web3 markets.

As of today, **Holonym supports ID cards from 190 countries**, enabling real-world use cases, and it's also ensuring one-person-one-vote votes in DAOs and Web3 communities via privacy-friendly KYC methods.

On top of **Vocdoni, the open voting protocol**, this integration will make possible new possibilities of governance that we can’t wait to make reality.

In the coming days, **we'll launch our first integration with Holonym using** [**Gitcoin Passport**](https://passport.gitcoin.co/)**, with more direct integrations to follow**. For more insights into this partnership and its impact on digital voting's future, **read the** [**full announcement on Holonym's blog**](https://paragraph.xyz/@holonym/revolutionizing-democratic-processes-vocdoni-and-holonym-partnership).

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¹ _Holonym v3 marks a significant advancement towards self-custody by transitioning from zk-SNARKs to focusing on information-theoretically secure ZK proofs based on VOLE (Vector Oblivious Linear Evaluation). This architecture ensures that proofs are generated client-side on consumer hardware. While zk-SNARKs are limited to simple computations on these devices, VOLE-based ZK proofs significantly enhance prover efficiency by 1000x compared to zk-SNARKs. This improvement enables the protocol to verify arbitrary facts about credentials from various sources such as NFC-based passports, Aadhaar, email ownership through DKIM signatures, web account ownership through JWTs, and potentially even Ethereum state trees, all on consumer hardware._