AnonSurvey by Webmaster Studios
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
Product: AnonSurvey, a platform designed to create and distribute anonymous surveys, polls, and voting forms, ensuring privacy and confidentiality
Solution Provider: Webmaster Studios (IT Web App development)
Industry: IT
Website or App URL: anonsurvey.com
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A surveying and voting tool that can be used with Blockchain technology for immutable and verifiable responses.
INDUSTRY CONTEXT
Industry problems & challenges
AnonSurvey addresses the critical challenges of transparency, security, and verifiability in data collection methods such as surveys, polls, and voting systems. Traditional online survey tools often struggle with ensuring the integrity and authenticity of responses, leading to potential issues like data tampering and lack of participant trust. AnonSurvey mitigates these concerns by leveraging the BSV blockchain to record responses immutably, providing a transparent and tamper-proof ledger of all collected data.
A significant problem in the industry is the difficulty in verifying the authenticity of survey responses while maintaining respondent anonymity. AnonSurvey introduces a token-based system where each participant is issued a unique response token, ensuring that only authorized individuals can submit responses. This approach not only preserves the anonymity of respondents but also guarantees that each response is legitimate and verifiable.
Furthermore, many organizations face challenges in demonstrating the credibility of their data collection processes to stakeholders. By utilizing blockchain technology, AnonSurvey enables publicly verifiable results, enhancing trust and confidence in the data collected. This feature is particularly beneficial for applications such as corporate surveys, academic research, and even governmental elections, where data integrity is paramount.
In summary, AnonSurvey aims to solve the industry's problems related to data integrity, respondent anonymity, and result verifiability in surveys and voting systems by harnessing the transparency and security features of blockchain technology.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
AnonSurvey addresses the issue of transparency by leveraging the BSV blockchain to make survey and voting results publicly verifiable and immutable. Here’s how it works:
Immutable Record of Responses: Every survey response is recorded directly onto the BSV blockchain. Because blockchain data is immutable, once a response is submitted, it cannot be altered or deleted. This creates a tamper-proof, auditable trail of all responses that anyone can independently verify. 📌 This ensures that results are transparent and can’t be manipulated behind the scenes.
Public Verifiability Without Central Control: AnonSurvey removes the need to trust a central authority (like a survey host or poll administrator) to report results honestly. Since all responses are visible on the blockchain, anyone can verify the outcome independently, creating trust through transparency. 📌 No one has to "take the creator’s word for it" anymore.
Token-Based Response System: Each respondent gets a unique token that can only be used once, ensuring that responses are valid without linking back to individual identities. This helps maintain anonymity while still allowing complete accountability, since every token’s use is traceable and transparent on-chain.
Limitations in the traditional approach or legacy system
Traditional survey and polling tools face serious challenges:
Fraud risk due to centralized data control.
Transparency issues stemming from closed systems.
Uncertainty about whether results are authentic, anonymous, and accurate.
AnonSurvey is specifically designed to address these pain points through blockchain technology, offering a verifiable, tamper-proof, and trustless system.
WHY BSV BLOCKCHAIN?
AnonSurvey chose the BSV blockchain because it offers:
High scalability at low cost
On-chain data storage
Publicly auditable and transparent infrastructure
A stable protocol focused on utility and real-world use
These features make BSV uniquely suited to power a tool that demands tamper-proof, anonymous, yet publicly verifiable survey and voting systems.
BSV features used:
Data storage
Micropayments
The function of the BSV features used
Ability to immutably capture voting records at a fraction of cost. We managed to do the entire voting population of Australia for less than 200 dollars.
SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE
An administrator is able to design a form, issue the form for responses and collect. Each respondee receives a unique link. An option is also available for kiosk like function.
Technologies or tools integrated with BSV
Mostly hash functions.
IMPLEMENTATION
Development and deployment timeline
3 months.
Project Status Quo
The tool is currently in the process of being rebuilt and rebranded. New name will be bvote.
RESULTS & IMPACT
Key quantitative results
100+ users. Millions of transactions
Key qualitative benefits
Small business adoption.
CHALLENGES & LESSONS LEARNED
Biggest challenges in building and launching this project
Government penetration
Lessons learned
Deploy and scale as the business grows.
FUTURE PLANS
Rebranding to bvote, reworking the backend, making it more user friendly.
