{"id":134808,"date":"2020-12-16T16:11:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/waves-enterprise-partners-with-ontology-to-fix-blockchain-e-voting\/"},"modified":"2020-12-16T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:11:34","slug":"waves-enterprise-partners-with-ontology-to-fix-blockchain-e-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/waves-enterprise-partners-with-ontology-to-fix-blockchain-e-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"# Waves Enterprise partners with Ontology to fix blockchain e-voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# Waves Enterprise partners with Ontology to fix blockchain e-voting
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\nWaves Enterprise, a major technology<\/a> company specializing in blockchain-based solutions for businesses and governments, has inked a new partner to streamline its e-voting service.<\/p>\n

According to a Dec. 16 announcement, Waves Enterprise has signed a memorandum of understanding with blockchain platform Ontology to integrate decentralized identification tools into the Waves Enterprise e-voting system.<\/p>\n

As part of the partnership, Waves Enterprise and Ontology aim to solve one of the biggest challenges of digital voting \u2014 user authentication and identification. The companies specifically plan to app<\/a>ly Ontology\u2019s new decentralized identity solution known as ONT ID.<\/p>\n

Artem Kalikhov, chief product officer at Waves Enterprise, told Cointelegraph Ontology\u2019s DeID technology will replace other traditional methods like email verification. \u201cRight now we rely on traditional web authentication, via registered email approach,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Li Jun, founder of Ontology, explained that the Ontology-powered e-voting integration will require users to create their ONT ID first to bind their personal data and credentials. \u201cThen their voting records can be traced on a chain which is not erased,\u201d Jun noted.<\/p>\n

Jun emphasized that user privacy will not be compromised as ONT ID serves as a decentralized entity. However, data like hashes or transaction numbers can still be tracked, he said. \u201cUsers have the right to choose what specific info they would like to share [because] the data is fully owned by themselves,\u201d Jun added.<\/p>\n

According to Kalikhov, Waves Enterprise is initially looking to integrate ONT ID as a module. \u201cAt the initial stage, our blockchains will most likely operate separately from each other,\u201d Kalikhov said. The companies might make their blockchain networks interoperable in the future.<\/p>\n

The news<\/a> comes shortly after Waves Enterprise publicly released its blockchain voting system in November 2020. Targeting corporations and board governance, the system uses blockchain to securely record each vote without having to reveal the identity of individuals casting ballots.<\/p>\n

This system has been previously trialed in Russia during the country\u2019s parliamentary elections in September 2020. Kalikhov said that the newly released platform is somewhat different from the one used in Russia, as the deployment was based on \u201cRussian cryptography\u201d and different mechanisms for identification and anonymization.
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