Aragon's Blog

Announcements

Overcoming DAObt: Introducing the Aragon DAO Experts Program

We're connecting DAO creators seeking support with the industry-leading DAOs best able to serve their needs.

Announcements

Rebuilding Aragon’s foundations for the future

Learn how and why we're crafting a new Aragon – fresh smart contracts, a clear SDK, and an easy-to-use, no-code app.

Education

The Future of DAOs is Powered by AI

AI can enable DAOs, but DAOs can also enable AI in an unstoppable feedback loop. Get to know AI DAOs.

Announcements

Launching the Aragon DAO

How our new governance approach puts code at the center, and humans at the edges.

Education

What is Account Abstraction?

Account abstraction is the customizability of your crypto wallet to make it more safe and convenient, giving you or your DAO easier control of your assets.

Education

How to Start a Sports DAO

DAOs offer a whole new way for fans to come together to support their favorite team, hold events, and raise funds.

Developers

20 dApps to Build on Top of The New aragonOS

We’ve been dreaming up all the dApps that can be built on top of our protocol. Here are some ideas that excite us the most!

Education

Why DAOs Run on Blockchains

An on-chain DAO has a smart contract at the center. So, when a vote passes, actions are automatically executed.

DAO Framework: How to Code a DAO with Aragon Smart Contracts

We’ve created a permission management system to retain the good parts of being on-chain while eliminating the bad.

Announcements

Meet The New Aragon Protocol

Our new modular DAO framework is live on testnet, with mainnet slated for the new year.

Announcements

PrimeDAO and Aragon Swap D2D and ANT

Aragon and PrimeDAO completed a token swap this week of $50,000 worth of ANT for $50,000 of D2D, PrimeDAO’s token.

Success Cases

API3 Makes Web3 Data Exchange Trustless with Battle-tested aragonOS

“We built using the original version of the Aragon framework (referred to as “Aragon 1”), due to it being the most battle-tested option…” - Burak Benligiray, Core Technical Team Lead of API3.

Introducing the Aragon DAO Governance Framework

DAOs today typically operate with a mix of governance mechanisms that shape the organization’s decision-making, funding allocation, coordination, and culture. They cover a broad spectrum from technical to human, trustware to socialware, and metaverse to meatspace. On one end, there are automatically enforceable rules hard-coded into smart contracts. On

Vocdoni

Technical Deep-Dive: Anonymous Voting with zk-SNARKs

Discover the technical specifications of Vocdoni's anonymous voting and how we arrived at this design.

Vocdoni

Vocdoni Introduces Anonymous Voting

From now on, anyone can create an anonymous voting process that will allow users to vote with the cryptographic assurance that nobody can correlate their identity with the contents of their ballot.

Announcements

Building the Hyperstructure for Governance: Core Teams Publish Strategy

Our strategy includes the steps needed to build the hyperstructure that DAOs use to govern their organizations on-chain.

Events

Our Developer Advocate Shares Learnings from MCON and DappCon

After attending MCON and DappCon back-to-back, here are some patterns that became prevalent to our Developer Advocate Juliette Chevalier.

Success Cases

Virtual World Decentraland Secures Treasury with Battle-Tested Aragon Client

“I can say if you are a dev looking to build a DAO that will hold assets, Aragon is a secure and battle tested option,” shared core team member Yemel Jardi.

Events

Kyiv Tech Summit Recap: Building Technology to Liberate Humanity

Millions of Ukrainians are in a life-threatening situation. The goal of the summit was to build software that helps them by using censorship resistant, trustless, and permissionless technology.

DAO Experts

Meet The DAO Experts Program’s Cohort #2

After the initial success of our DAO Experts Program, we’re excited to announce more service providers to ensure we’ve covered all of our bases to meet the needs of DAOs.

Vocdoni

First Public Institution in Spain Holds Vocdoni Referendum | Bellpuig Council

Bellpuig Mayor Jordi Estiarte reached out to Vocdoni with the goal of digitalizing his town’s voting processes as part of an election promise to increase direct citizen participation.

Success Cases

Lido: Aragon Contract Secures Ethereum Liquid Staking Service

“We were incredibly surprised by the power and security of the Aragon ACL - when setting up Lido, it saved our development team more than six months of development time” - Victor Suzdalev, Lido core governance team.

DAO Experts

The next 10,000 DAOs, according to DAO Experts

Our Experts discuss what the next DAOs will look like, from size, templates, solutions and more!

Announcements

The Future of Aragon: Treasury to Transfer into a Delegated Voting DAO

On 17 June 2022, ANT holders voted to move the treasury into the AN DAO. Since 2017, the treasury has been held and managed by the Aragon committee members, who make up the board of the nonprofit Aragon Association.

Developers

Aragon’s New Smart Contracts: the Why, the What, and the How

We’re betting on leveraging the amazing tooling that is already out there to increase the value of everyone’s products by allowing for easy integrations and extensibility.