ElectionGuard + Cardano

Work in progress on the Catalyst fund13 project.

Current status as of 2026-02-18:

• All Milestones (1, 2, and 3) approved

• Milestone 1 (ElectionGuard stuff) finished:

  • The 3 main scripts work:
    • Output 1.1: election
    • Output 1.2: verifier
    • Output 1.3: tests
  • They each have a companion video on my YouTube channel and post on my blog
  • Other misc things done along the way:
    • Have electionguard-python passing its tests
    • Cleaned up my fork and pushed a Docker image
    • Partially archived the NIST election format docs site
    • Set up a Nix environment

• Milestone 2 (Cardano stuff) in progress:

  • An IPFS-ified version of the 1.1 tests codebase works

  • I worked a bit on making it more efficient

  • A minimal "pubsub" example shows that the plan for the election dApp is viable:

    • mockchain version with IPFS only syncs files given CIDs
    • Aiken + PyCardano + Kupo version syncs CIDs via Preview testnet

  • Working on the actual milestone outputs:

    • Output 2.1: design docs
    • Output 2.2 + 2.3: pubsub codebase

• Milestone 3 (ElectionGuard + Cardano integration):

  • Starting to plan demos

  • Started experimenting with printing and scanning QR codes