A First Look at Cicada: A16Z’s Library for On-Chain Voting

The library uses a technique known as time-lock puzzles to enable efficiency in voting mechanisms.

Jesus Rodriguez
IntoTheBlock
Published in
4 min readMay 31, 2023

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Voting is one the cornerstone of blockchain applications. From Consensus algorithms to DeFi governance models, blockchain trust runs on programmable voting systems. However, this is one of the areas…

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Jesus Rodriguez
IntoTheBlock

CEO of IntoTheBlock, President of Faktory, President of NeuralFabric and founder of The Sequence , Lecturer at Columbia University, Wharton, Angel Investor...