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Extending Privacy in Governance: Verifiable Secret Ballots on Aragon with Enclave

Aragon and Enclave are deepening the privacy spectrum in onchain governance, introducing verifiable secret ballots that make voting both confidential and provably secure. Privacy is essential to meaningful governance. It gives participants the freedom to express their views without pressure, ensuring outcomes reflect genuine consensus rather than influence. Earlier this

New LockToVote Governance Plugin Release with Aragon App UX Upgrades

Over the past two months, the Aragon team shipped major upgrades designed to make governance simpler, safer, and more composable.

Aragon Guardians Secure DeFi Assets on Morpho for the Ethereum Foundation

Learn how Aragon is safeguarding DeFi assets on Morpho for the Ethereum Foundation and how the Guardians experience is improving with LockToVote, a new governance plugin on Aragon OSx.

Guardians V2: Strengthening governance in Morpho Vaults V2

Morpho Vaults V2 set a new standard for onchain asset curation. Alongside it, depositor oversight is upgrading too. Together with Morpho, we’ve built Guardians V2, a new system that makes it easier for vault depositors to exercise their onchain veto power, powered by Aragon’s LockToVote plugin. Oversight for

Extending the Curve Model: Yield Basis Launches on Aragon OSx

ve-lockers and gauges became the cornerstone of aligned tokenomics in DeFi. Spearheaded by Curve, they set the standard for rewarding long-term commitment and directing incentives where the community values them most. Now, YieldBasis, led by the team behind Curve and the original ve and gauge vision on Aragon, is building

Introducing the Capital Distributor: Automating onchain incentives

Distributing capital has been expensive, labour-intensive, full of legal uncertainty, and rife with mistakes. Today, we’re changing that. Incentives and rewards are the lifeblood of onchain ecosystems. They drive liquidity, attract builders, and align stakeholders. But distributing capital onchain has never been easy. Most projects today rely on Merkle

Designing Network-Level Token Value Accrual for Katana

Value accrual is the engine of sustainable growth for ecosystems. It aligns incentives, strengthens networks, and creates a feedback loop where usage drives value and value flows back to participants. Obvious as it may sound, most ecosystems struggle to design these systems. We at Aragon set out to change this,

New in the Aragon app: BORGs—Legal Modularity for Onchain Organizations

Set up limited-liability wrappers for the wallets and roles that run your protocol. No paperwork, no slowdown. For years, decentralized organizations have been stuck in regulatory limbo. Projects that move at the speed of code often rely on opaque, off‑chain entities that slow them down and create unnecessary risk.

Product Digest #003: Private Voting, Fine-Grained Permissions, and Smoother Flows

The past month focused on further unlocking the true power of OSx for onchain organizations, with new updates across governance design, proposal creation, and UI features making it easier than ever to build exactly what your org needs. From private, encrypted voting to modular permissions and streamlined proposal creation, the

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Introducing private voting on Aragon with MACI

Aragon and the team behind MACI (Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure) have joined forces to bring private voting at scale to onchain organizations, with development currently underway.

New in the Aragon App: Permissions‑Based Access Control

No-code separation of powers: grant precise, function-level permissions without writing a line of code. The ideal organization spreads decision-making so one process isn't responsible for everything. Onchain, however, most teams are forced to spin up a single, all-powerful contract (like a multisig or a DAO) to control everything.

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Product Digest #002: New chains, improved UX

Last month brought key enhancements across app UX, new chain support, and core infrastructure improvements. June closed out the quarter with continued progress toward our mission: making it easier than ever to build secure, scalable onchain organizations. The month saw a wide range of updates across Aragon OSx, the Value

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Product Digest 001: May 2025

We roundup our product updates for the month of May, which saw a leap forward in modular governance.

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Powering YieldNest’s Next Chapter of Governance

We’re proud to have built YieldNest’s newly launched governance system purpose-built for incentive alignment, value accrual, and long-term protocol growth.

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Upcoming Changes In the Aragon App

From June 30,2025, the latest version of the Aragon app will replace earlier versions of the app, ensuring all builders have seamless access to top features for designing adaptable and modular governance right out of the box. A new chapter for onchain organizations Decentralization has the potential to transform

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New in the Aragon App: Governance and Access Control With Any Address

You can now seamlessly add any EVM address as governance bodies to your organization on Aragon, in just a few clicks.

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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

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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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Introducing The Value Accrual Toolkit: Tokenomics for 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