We need you! In June 2024 two members of the community will be elected to the Concordium Governance Committee. To provide privacy, the on-chain election protocol requires a decentralized voting committee to take part in key generation and tally decryption. We call the members of this committee guardians. Read below to learn how you can take part.

The Guardians’ Mission

The guardians generate the public and secret keys used to encrypt and decrypt the voting ballots. By keeping the decryption keys secret, they ensure the privacy of the votes. Once voting has closed, the guardians take part in a joint decryption protocol that will produce the final tally of the election. Guardians need to perform the following tasks:

• Have a reasonable laptop or desktop computer with a reliable internet connection, on which they download and run the guardian app provided by Concordium.
• Have an account on the Concordium blockchain that can be accessed in the browser wallet. This account is used to authenticate the guardian and interact with the voting smart contract. It should have at least 50 CCD to pay for the transaction fees.
• Be available for a dry-run on testnet between the 10th and 24th of April 2024.
• Be available for generating keys on mainnet between the 4th of June and the 10th of June 2024.
• Be available for decrypting the tally between the 24th and 28th of June 2024.

We give fairly large windows to execute the different parts of the protocol so that we have time to deal with unexpected hiccups. Running the guardian software to perform the key generation and tally decryption only takes a few minutes, but it might take a few minutes every day for several days, depending on the availability of the other guardians.

A reward of €100 in CCD will be granted at the end of the election to every guardian who performs all the tasks.

Take Part

If you want to take part in the election as a guardian, please sign up using this link

SIGN UP HERE.

Any member of the Concordium community who is not a candidate for the election may take part. We only need 11 guardians, who will be randomly drawn from all legible registrations.

The form requires some personal information such as name and contact details. This will be kept private; it is only needed to contact the guardians to run the protocols on testnet and mainnet. However, the account number is hard-coded in the smart contract and is thus publicly visible.

Timeline

Read more about Concordium’s governance committee election

Introducing the election
Election rules
On-chain voting protocol

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