Aragon Launches Confidential Voting Plugin for Encrypted DAO Governance

Aragon has launched Confidential Voting, an Aragon OSx governance plugin built on the Zama Protocol. According to ChainCatcher, the plugin keeps individual votes encrypted during tallying while preserving the standard Aragon voting experience. Voters can choose for, against, or abstain through the Aragon interface and encrypt their choice on the client side using the Zama Relayer SDK before submitting it. The plugin uses fully homomorphic encryption to verify, weight, and aggregate encrypted ballots, then applies threshold decryption only to the final totals after voting ends. The system does not grant decryption rights to individual ballots. To maintain confidentiality during the voting period, it does not provide real-time tallying, does not support early execution, and allows voters to replace their encrypted vote before the deadline. The modular design can run alongside other governance primitives, and the DAO executes actions after a proposal passes.