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The Growth Engine: How veLockers & Gauges Drive Value Accrual

For many onchain organizations, governance and value creation have historically existed in parallel, but not in sync. Token holders vote, yes, but does that governance translate into sustainable growth, aligned incentives, or capital efficiency? Not always. Aragon’s veLocker + Gauge primitives, part of the Value Accrual Toolkit, are designed to

Building for Value Accrual: A Smarter Framework for Token Incentives

Discover our powerful suite of modularized tokenomic primitives designed to help onchain organizations align incentives at every layer: governance, treasury management, to liquidity growth.

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The Value Accrual Toolkit: Tokenomic Primitives for Network Incentive Alignment

Onchain organizations have proven their ability to attract resources at extraordinary speed and scale, creating the potential for unprecedented value creation. Realizing that potential depends on the ability to sustainably align stakeholder incentives. Most have fallen short. Onchain organizations have been relying on systems where decision-making is decoupled from economic

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The Next Generation of Onchain Organizations

We’re enabling this next generation of onchain organizations by focusing on two key areas: value creation and value distribution.

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Aragon DAOs can Now Deploy on peaq: The Future of Decentralized Infrastructure

The future of DePIN governance is decentralized. Now, you can launch your DAO on peaq, the layer-1 powering the Machine Economy, with the modular Aragon OSx protocol, and soon on the next version of the Aragon App. We’re thrilled to announce that Aragon DAOs are now deployable on peaq,

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The Value Accrual Framework: Governance as an Engine for Sustainable Growth

By connecting governance, incentives, and value accrual, you can build a system that supports long-term growth and sustainability.

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Introducing the Governance UI Kit and App Template

As DAOs adopt new governance models, their interfaces need to evolve to support the smart contracts.

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DAOs 2.0: Context-based, Automated, Tokenomic-driven

There is no use in making DAOs unstoppable if they stop organizations from being effective.

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Introducing Taiko’s Optimistic Onchain Governance

We’re excited to announce the decentralization and security-focused onchain governance design of the Taiko DAO. This milestone marks a significant step forward in Taiko’s governance roadmap to fully decentralized protocol governance. TLDR: * Optimistic governance model, where token holders have onchain veto rights; * Security Council that can efficiently and

Geo Genesis: A Breakthrough in Governing Knowledge Onchain

Introducing Geo Genesis, a global application designed to share and organize information into collaborative hubs, governed on Aragon OSx.

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Mode Governance Games Drive High Voter Participation

Mode became the first L2 to introduce vote escrow (ve) and gauge-based governance to its ecosystem—modernizing a long-standing governance model implemented by successful DeFi protocols. In Season 3, the Governance Games incentivized community members to stake tokens for increased voting power, directing rewards to protocols via gauges. The results

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Introducing Kim Exchange's Governance

Kim implemented a vote escrow (ve) and gauges governance model. This approach ensures aligned incentives, reduces coordination overhead, and accelerates network growth.

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The Future of Governance is Modular

Monolithic governance frameworks are holding back protocols. Modularity will solve this.

Aragon and MetaLeX team up to bring flexible legal and technical solutions to DAOs

Aragon and MetaLeX are partnering to offer the most robust onchain governance tools and services for the emerging cybernetic economy.

ANT Redemption Initiative Report

On November 2nd 2023, the Aragon Association (AA) announced the ANT Redemption Initiative. Over the last 12 months, all ANT Holders were given a fair and equal opportunity to redeem their ANT for ETH at a fixed rate of 0.0025376 ETH:ANT. In order to fulfil this initiative, the

Introducing Mode Governance

We’re excited to work with Mode, the first L2 to implement a modernized vote escrow (ve) and gauge-based governance model.

Announcing the Launch of Puffer Governance

Together, we’ve developed a custom governance solution to launch alongside the PUFFER token, a meaningful step on their decentralization roadmap.

Gasless Voting, Onchain

A new solution for Ethereum Mainnet DAOs to vote onchain for free.

Legacy Product Update

Sunsetting Aragon Court, Govern, Voice, and supporting Aragon Client migration.

Aragon OSx and App are Live on ZKsync

Any project in the ZKsync ecosystem can launch a DAO and govern their protocols and assets onchain.

Building the Future of Polygon Governance

Building the Future of Polygon Governance: A modular, secure, and community-driven governance solution.

Kicking off the #TeamStaking program with Dappnode

It’s time for us to do our part. We’re kicking off an internal #TeamStaking program in partnership with our long-time friends at Dappnode. Our goal is to have all Aragon contributors staking at home by making running a node accessible and fun! We’ll be using DVT and

Aragon 2024: Looking Forward

Our mission stands: to enable onchain organizations to experiment with governance at the speed of software.

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Aragon OSx Updates: seamless and optional updates for your DAO

Make security and feature updates to the base contracts of your DAO by passing a proposal in the Aragon App.

Education

The Token Holder’s Guide to Delegation

We asked delegates across the industry to give advice to token holders. Here’s what they said.