After researching the best structure for our voting tool and defining the security properties we started defining the technical components needed etc. in the last month. This month we continued in the planning of the technical infrastructure/components and started developing the first components. As a first step we looked into a secure off-chain storage for votes (through a database). Based on this database we started developing a backend infrastructure with the capabilities of taking snapshots, starting a vote and closing a vote. As a next step we want to extend our backend infrastructure such that we will be able to case votes during the governance window.

When performing a digital vote different properties of the vote need to be defined. That includes properties like privacy, integrity and verifiability. As we are planning on launching an open-source solution we have talked to different projects on Cardano that require off-chain governance to better understand their requirements and what features they would like to see in a voting system. Based on these talks we started planning the voting solutions technical structure. This means we started defining the technical requirements for a voting setup which includes: a voting frontend, storage backend, Cardano wallets and a setup to make the votes verifiable. We are planning to soon make a first repository public that contains the technical requirements defined for the voting system. We hope to then collect additional feedback from community members and projects based on these inital findings. After this initial phase has been conducted we are planning to start the implementation based on the requirments defined.