# Aragon Private Onchain Voting *A solution for private onchain voting, enabled by an integration with the Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI) plugin.* By [ETH Daily](https://ethdaily.io) · 2025-08-21 news, 2025, august2025 --- Quick Take ---------- * Aragon private onchain voting. * EF TDS enters Phase 2. * Gnosis celebrates 10 years. * Stablecoin market cap hits ATH. * * * [ Aragon Private Onchain Voting ----------------------------- Listen to this episode from ETH Daily - Ethereum News on Spotify. Aragon introduces private onchain voting. The EF's Trillion Dollar Security initiative enters Phase 2. Gnosis celebrates 10 years on Ethereum. And the stablecoin market cap on Ethereum hits new records. https://spotify.com ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ec63e19e8f9ef1faad7ba59b41e05203.jpg) ](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HmPAV2B3oEo95Xf1PCvpt) * * * Aragon Private Onchain Voting ----------------------------- DAO infrastructure provider Aragon [introduced](https://blog.aragon.org/private-onchain-voting-on-aragon-with-maci/) a solution for private onchain voting, enabled by an integration with the Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI) plugin developed by the Privacy Stewards of Ethereum team. The integration allows DAOs using the Aragon governance stack to run encrypted, zk-verified private votes. The system leverages zk-SNARK proofs to ensure results are verifiable and cannot be censored or falsified. By protecting voters from coercion and retaliation, private DAO voting aims to increase participation and improve decision-making accuracy. The solution is currently demo-ready, and Aragon is seeking DAOs to pilot the plugin before a wider rollout. Trillion Dollar Security Phase 2 -------------------------------- The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security (TDS) initiative, an ecosystem-wide effort to raise Ethereum’s security to support trillions of dollars in value, has [entered](https://blog.ethereum.org/2025/08/20/trillion-dollar-sec-2) Phase 2, moving from research to action. Phase 2 begins with a focus on user experience (UX) security. Phase 2 addresses wallet security, blind signing, and building an open-source database of smart contract vulnerabilities. Over time, additional waves will expand into other security domains, with the ultimate goal of making Ethereum safer and more reliable than traditional financial infrastructure. Gnosis Celebrates 10 Years On Ethereum -------------------------------------- Gnosis, founded in 2015, [celebrated](https://www.gnosis.io/blog/ten-years-of-gnosis-from-prediction-markets-to-a-user-owned-open-finance-revolution) 10 years since launching its first Ethereum smart contract. Over the decade, Gnosis has grown from decentralized prediction markets into a full-stack open finance platform. Its key contributions include the Safe smart wallet,the CoW Swap DEX aggregator, Gnosis Pay self-custodial payments, and Gnosis Chain with 300k+ validators. Looking ahead, Gnosis will launch Gnosis 3.0 in Q3 2025, unifying all products under the same Gnosis brand with no further spinouts. The GNO token will remain as the governance, staking, and ecosystem alignment for the Gnosis DAO. Ethereum Stablecoin Mcap Hits ATH --------------------------------- The market capitalization of stablecoins on Ethereum continues to set new records, now [exceeding](https://defillama.com/stablecoins/ethereum) $143 billion.  The figure is up [over half a billion](https://x.com/TedPillows/status/1958130644447621182) just in the last day. Tether’s USDT remains dominant with a market cap of over $70 billion, while Circle’s USDC holds second place at $41.81 billion. 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