Aragon's Blog

Introducing Aragon Voice

We are thrilled to announce that the first instance of the Aragon OpenStack - Aragon Voice - is now live on the Ethereum mainnet.

Announcements

Welcoming Adrià Massanet as Security Engineer at Aragon Labs

Adrià Massanet has been appointed as Security Engineer at Aragon Labs.

Announcements

Welcoming Jordi P. Aulet as Technical Product Manager at Aragon Labs

Jordi P. Aulet has been appointed as Technical Product Manager at Aragon Labs.

Education

How to DAO: Answers for Beginners

All the questions your mom will ask...

Announcements

Welcoming Andrew Ridge as Senior Content Writer at the Aragon Association.

Andrew Ridge has been appointed as Senior Content Writer at the Aragon Association.

Announcements

Welcoming Alex Flores as our new Full Stack Developer at Aragon Labs.

Alex Flores is our new Full Stack Developer at Aragon Labs.

Announcements

Uno Re: Pioneering the Reinsurance DAO

Uno Re will partner with Aragon to develop a reputation-based DAO for the reinsurance industry.

Vocdoni

Welcoming Marta Sancho as our new Project Manager at Aragon Labs

Marta Sancho has been appointed as Project Manager at Aragon Labs.

Education

15 Ways the World is being Transformed by DAOs

As people self-organize into DAOs, we will see the world transformed by a Cambrian explosion of activity that will do for organizations what the internet did for communication.

Announcements

Welcoming Ivan Fartunov as Head of Partnerships at the Aragon Association

Ivan Fartunov has been appointed as Head of Partnerships at the Aragon Association.

Announcements

Welcoming Daniel Ospina as Head of Governance at the Aragon Association

Daniel Ospina has been appointed as Head of Governance at the Aragon Association.

Announcements

Welcome Ramon Canales Product Lead at the Aragon Association

The Aragon Association is pleased to announce that Ramon Canales has been appointed as Product Lead at the Aragon Association.

Announcements

Aragon Association to Sponsor 2021 Gitcoin Grants Program

The Aragon Association will be sponsoring Gitcoin’s new Decentralized Governance (dGov) category for two upcoming rounds of the Gitcoin Grants Program, launching on June 16th.

Announcements

Aragon Partners with Witnet for Gasless DAO Management on Discord

The Aragon Association is delighted to announce its partnership with the Witnet decentralized oracle to provide off-chain, ‘optimistic’ voting for DAOs via Discord. Any Aragon DAO will be able to offer feeless, binding votes on DAO operations to any Discord channel member using only emoji reactions

Vocdoni

Introducing Vocdoni: a decentralized governance platform for traditional organizations

The Aragon Project is thrilled to announce the launch of Vocdoni, a platform that securely resolves key governance requirements for a variety of organizations using cutting-edge voting technology. The Vocdoni digital voting protocol introduces an unparalleled layer of security, trust and efficiency to the standard guarantees of governance processes, enjoyed

Announcements

Welcoming Alexander Clayhills as the new Head of Transparency of the Aragon Association

Welcoming Alexander Clayhills-Henderson, as the new Head of Transparency of the Aragon Association. He will be responsible for making our decision-making process and internal resources more accessible to our community members.

Announcements

Welcoming Isabella de Brito as the Head of Community of the Aragon Association

We are thrilled to announce that Isabella de Brito has been appointed as Head of Community of the Aragon Association. Isabella has joined the team and will be in charge of creating and executing Aragon's community strategy, leading long-term initiatives to support and engage our growing community of developers, advocates,

Vocdoni

Introducing the Vocdoni Ballot Protocol

The Vocdoni Ballot Protocol aims to be a very simple yet powerful specification for the representation of ballots and results for a voting process.

Announcements

KPI options, the future of DAOs

Focusing a team towards key results is no easy task, let alone driving a whole community towards a shared common goal. Historically, DAOs have been lacking incentivization mechanisms to integrate goal-setting frameworks within their governance structure. KPI options are changing this. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) empower individuals to create more

Introducing Aragon Fundraising

Update: Aragon Fundraising is now live on Ethereum mainnet and Rinkeby testnet. Try it out: https://app.aragon.org Aragon Fundraising, previously called Apiary, is an app built on top of Aragon, providing Aragon users an easy way to raise funds through an emergent organization. It has been developed by

Announcements

Welcoming Luca Vento as the CMO of the Aragon Association

We are excited to welcome Luca Vento, as Chief Marketing Officer of the Aragon’s Association. Luca has joined the team and will be responsible for elevating Aragon’s global brand and overseeing the expansion of Aragon’s decentralized governance solutions.‍ “We’re excited to welcome a professional of Luca’

Next steps for the ANT-ANJ merger

We are very excited to announce that ANJ holders can now redeem their tokens for ANTv2. This marks the completion of the first part of the ANJ-ANT merger, allowing ANJ holders to redeem their tokens at 0.015 ANT per ANJ. ‍ You can do it in the ANT upgrade portal.

Developers

Aragon Network welcomes new developers: Meet the Vocdoni team

On January 11th, 2021, the Aragon Association announced its acquisition of Dvote Labs OÜ, which aims to build the most secure and anonymous voting system using decentralized technologies. Vocdoni offers governance solutions based on a universally verifiable, private, and scalable voting, tailored to organizations from both public and private markets

Aragon Association and Vocdoni join forces to expand decentralized voting

Aragon Association has acquired Dvote Labs OÜ, the company behind Vocdoni, an open source technology stack that enables private, universally verifiable and scalable voting for traditional organizations.Zug, Switzerland — 11 January 2021 — Aragon, the platform for building and running decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has acquired Dvote Labs Oü, the company

Announcements

Welcoming Joe Charlesworth as the ED of the Aragon Association

The Aragon Association is pleased to announce its newly appointed Executive Director — Joe Charlesworth. Joe takes on this role having been Head of Operations for Aragon since 2019, a position which gained him valuable insight into Aragon’s community and overarching mission. As Joe takes on the role of Executive