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Imagine you’re organizing a global election for a decentralized community—like a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) on a blockchain. Voters from all over the world want to cast their ballots, but they demand total privacy: nobody, not even the vote counters or the system running the election, should know who voted for what. At the same time, the results need to be accurate, verifiable, and tamper-proof. Sounds like a tall order, right?Enter Zama’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), the tech equivalent of a futuristic voting booth that’s both a fortress and a genius vote-counter. Here’s how it works:Casting Votes: Each voter submits their ballot, but instead of plain text, their vote is encrypted into a digital “sealed envelope” using Zama’s FHE. This envelope is so secure that nobody—not you, not the DAO’s servers, not even a hacker—can peek inside to see the vote.
Counting Votes Privately: These sealed envelopes are sent to a virtual