iNews24 04-01-2024
zkrypto wins top innovation award for blockchain voting system at CES 2024
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In recent years, CES has encouraged university-related startups and lab-developed technologies to be displayed. At CES 2024, many universities from different countries will be exhibiting their technologies. Technologies that have been researched in university laboratories for a long time can also help start-up companies invest, commercialise and sell. Here are some of the startups exhibiting at CES 2024 related to Kookmin University and Kookmin University Technology Holding.
◇zkrypto Wins Best Innovation Award for Blockchain-Based Voting System
zkrypto, whose Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is Kim Ji-hye, a professor at Kookmin University's School of Electronic Engineering, won the Best Innovation Award at CES 2023 and again at CES 2024. At the opening ceremony of CES 2023, zkrypto was introduced as one of the three technologies that will solve the problems facing humanity. zkrypto, which provides a transparent and fair voting system based on blockchain, has also received a lot of attention from government officials from various countries, idol selection TV programmes, etc. at CES 2023.
zkrypto won the Best Innovation Award at CES 2024 for its zkVoating Pole Station. While last year's winner was an online blockchain voting system, this year's event expanded it to include offline voting. The company explained that a transparent and fair voting system can minimise social disruption and social costs.
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