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# Introduction
# Welcome to MACI

Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI) is a base layer for
bribery-resistant, secure, and private digital voting.
![MACI card](/img/maci-card.png)

## Introduction

**Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI)** is an open-source public good that serves as infrastructure for private on-chain voting.

MACI is an application that allows users to have an on-chain voting process with greatly increased collusion resistance. A common problem among today’s on-chain voting (or public good funding) processes is how easy it is to bribe voters into voting for a particular option. Since all transactions on the blockchain are public by default, without MACI, voters can easily prove to the briber which option they voted for and therefore receive the bribe rewards.

MACI counters this problem by using encryption and zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) to essentially hide how each person voted while still publicly revealing the final vote result. User’s cannot prove which option they voted for, and therefore bribers cannot reliably trust that a user voted for their preferred option. For example, a voter can tell a briber that they are voting for option A, but in reality they voted for option B. There is no reliable way to prove which option the voter actually voted for, so the briber has less incentive to pay voters to vote their way.

Applications like [clr.fund](https://clr.fund/) build atop MACI to increase
privacy and discourage bribery for public goods funding.
user privacy and discourage collusion or bribery for public goods funding.

## Features

MACI offers the following guarantees:

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Note that MACI presumes an identity system where each legitimate member
controls a unique Ethereum private key.

## Background

MACI was originally proposed by Vitalik Buterin in [this ethresear.ch
post](https://ethresear.ch/t/minimal-anti-collusion-infrastructure/5413).
post](https://ethresear.ch/t/minimal-anti-collusion-infrastructure/5413). For a general overview, the history and the importance of MACI, see [Release Announcement: MACI 1.0](/blog/maci-1-0-release) by Wei Jie, one of the creators. He also created a helpful [overview of MACI video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKuNj_IQVYI). Kyle Charbonnet wrote a great [Technical Introduction to MACI 1.0](/blog/maci-1-0-technical-introduction) that provides a walkthrough on how MACI operates.

## Credits

MACI was originally developed by:
MACI is a public good infrastructure that is supported by the [Ethereum Foundation](https://ethereum.foundation/) within [Privacy & Scaling Explorations (PSE)](https://pse.dev/). It's also continuously improved by our open source community! Many people have contributed to MACI, but below are some notable contributors.

**[MACI v1.0](/blog/maci-1-0-release) was originally developed by:**

- [Barry WhiteHat](https://github.com/barryWhiteHat)
- [Cory Dickson](https://github.com/corydickson)
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- [Koh Wei Jie](https://kohweijie.com)
- [Samuel Gosling](https://twitter.com/xGozzy)

Currently, it is being maintained by the new MACI team, which will continue to work on improving the protocol and its documentation.
**[MACI v1.1.1](/blog/maci-v1-1-1-release) was primarily developed by:**

- [ctrlc03](https://github.com/ctrlc03)
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- [chaosma](https://github.com/chaosma)
- [baumstern](https://github.com/baumstern)
- [daodesigner](https://github.com/daodesigner)
- [0xjei](https://github.com/0xjei)

**Currently, MACI is maintained and continuously improved by a core development team:**

- [ctrlc03](https://github.com/ctrlc03)
- [samajammin](https://github.com/samajammin)
- [0xmad](https://github.com/0xmad)
- [kittybest](https://github.com/kittybest)
- [crisgarner](https://github.com/crisgarner)

Our core team continues to work on improving the protocol and its documentation with help from our open source community.

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If you are using one of the previous versions of MACI, see the [MACI v0.x](/docs/v0.x/introduction) documentation.
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# MACI Overview

To implement an on-chain, privacy-preserving, voting system, the MACI protocol consists of three subsystems in different programming languages:
The MACI codebase consists of three subsystems in different programming languages:

1. Circom circuits
2. Solidity smart contracts
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