Understanding the technology behind secure, transparent global voting
The Trust Ledger is a distributed voting system that combines cutting-edge cryptography with blockchain technology to ensure every vote is secure, private, and verifiable. Hover over each component to learn more.
The Trust Ledger is a four-layer architecture that ensures every vote is secure, private, informed, and accountable — from identity verification to final tally.
Establishes that each voter is a unique, verified human — without storing personal information centrally.
A unique cryptographic identifier derived from your biometric data. Generated on-device inside a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) — no raw biometric data ever leaves your phone.
Face and voice data are hashed locally into a one-way digest. The hash proves you are unique without revealing who you are. Even if intercepted, the hash cannot be reversed to reconstruct your biometrics.
Three verified humans can vouch for your identity, adding a social trust layer on top of biometrics. This helps onboard people in regions where biometric enrollment is difficult.
Handles the mechanics of casting, encrypting, and tallying votes with mathematical guarantees of privacy and correctness.
Your vote is encrypted and committed to the blockchain as a hash. Only after the commitment window closes are all votes revealed simultaneously, preventing strategic voting.
A zero-knowledge proof verifies that your vote weight (1.0 to 1.5) was correctly calculated from your comprehension and proximity scores — without revealing those scores or your identity.
Before tallying, votes are cryptographically shuffled through a multi-node mixnet, severing the last possible link between your identity and your vote.
Ensures voters understand the issues before casting their ballots, rewarding genuine engagement with knowledge.
Before voting, you review arguments from multiple sides of the issue — curated by diverse editorial panels, not algorithms. Every voter sees the same balanced information.
A brief, non-partisan quiz measures how well you understand the issue. Higher comprehension adds up to 0.25 weight to your vote — rewarding informed participation without penalizing anyone.
Comprehension checks are scored by AI models trained for fairness and consistency. All scoring algorithms are open source and auditable. Human review panels oversee edge cases.
Structures how decisions flow from local communities to the global stage, ensuring appropriate representation at every level.
Local, Regional, National, and Global tiers ensure decisions are made at the most appropriate level. Your proximity to an issue's impact increases your vote weight at that tier.
Proposals that cross a threshold of significance automatically escalate to higher governance tiers, ensuring that decisions with broad consequences receive broad participation.
Related proposals across tiers are linked together, so voters can see how local, regional, and global decisions connect and influence each other.
Every verified human gets a base vote of 1.0 — inviolable. Additional weight comes from demonstrated comprehension and proximity to the issue.
A 20,000-word deep dive into every design decision — the reasoning, the alternatives considered, and why this architecture is the best option for global democracy.
Zero-knowledge proofs protect your identity. Commit-reveal protocol ensures vote secrecy. No one — not even operators — can link your vote to you.
Every vote is recorded on a sovereign Cosmos blockchain with Merkle tree verification. All code is open source and independently auditable.
On-device biometric hashing via Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), verified by zero-knowledge proofs on-chain. No biometric data ever leaves your device. Social vouching by 3 verified humans adds trust.
Sovereign Cosmos SDK appchain with CosmWasm smart contracts, Fastify API gateway, Node.js microservices, Python AI scoring for comprehension checks, and React Native mobile.
All code is open source and available for public review. Smart contracts require 100% branch coverage before deployment. Independent security audits are published for full transparency.
The Global Democracy at your Fingertips platform is in active development. Architecture and planning are complete. Code implementation begins after the Charter website ships.