Liquid Systemic Consensus

Liquid Consensus Voting

Privacy-Preserving Governance for Small Organizations Built for the Enclave Hackathon 2025 | Powered by E3s (Encrypted Execution Environments)

Overview

Liquid Systemic Consensus combines liquid democracy (flexible delegation) with systemic consensus (resistance-based voting) to create a privacy-preserving governance system perfect for 5-50 person organizations.

App: https://liquidconsensus.vercel.app/

GitHub: https://github.com/morethanx/v0-app-files-and-screenshots

The Problem

Traditional voting systems force binary choices and lack privacy:- **Binary voting** (yes/no) doesn't capture nuanced preferences- **Direct democracy** requires everyone to vote on everything (exhausting)- **Representative democracy** locks you into one representative (inflexible)- **Lack of privacy** enables social pressure and strategic voting

My Solution

Three flexible participation modes: 

1. Delegate entire decision - Trust a colleague to vote for you

2. Mix delegation & voting - Delegate some proposals, vote on others

3. Vote on everything - Rate your resistance (0-10) for each option

Privacy guarantees via Enclave E3s: 

- Individual votes encrypted with FHE (Fully Homomorphic Encryption)

- Delegation verified with ZK proofs (zero-knowledge)

- Only aggregated results decrypted after voting closes

- No one can see how you voted, even after results are public**Systemic consensus algorithm:**- Instead of "most votes wins," we find "least resistance wins"

- Rate resistance 0-10 for each option (0 = full support, 10 = strong opposition)- Option with lowest total resistance wins- Finds solutions everyone can accept, not just majority preference-

Key Innovation: Extending CRISP

This project extends Enclave's CRISP (receipt-free voting primitive) from binary 0/1 votes to a 0-10 resistance scale.

CRISP provides:

- Receipt-free voting (can't prove how you voted)

- FHE encryption of individual votes

- Threshold decryption of results

We extended it with:

- 10-point resistance scoring instead of binary

- Per-proposal delegation with ZK proofs

- Systemic consensus algorithm (minimize resistance)- Three flexible participation modes

For Users

Three participation modes: Full delegation, mixed, or vote on everything- 

Intuitive resistance sliders: Color-coded 0-10 scale with visual feedback- 

Delegation tracking: See all your active delegations in one place- 

Privacy guarantees: Your individual scores remain encrypted until voting closes

For Organizations- 

Easy setup: Create organization, add members, start voting in minutes- 

Flexible voting: Create multi-proposal decisions with custom deadlines- 

Real-time participation tracking: See who voted directly vs delegated- 

Systemic consensus results: Find the option with minimal resistance

Technical Architecture- 

FHE Encryption: Individual votes encrypted using Fully Homomorphic Encryption- 

ZK Proofs: Delegation verification without revealing identities- 

E3 Execution: All computation happens in Enclave's encrypted environments- 

Smart Contracts: On-chain vote creation, delegation, and result verification