Aragon's Blog

New Aragon Stack Now Live on Mainnet

The new stack includes a tool for everyone to build organizations onchain, so you can experiment with governance at the speed of software.

Announcements

Meet The New Aragon Protocol

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

Announcements

Aragon and Nation3 Partner to Advance Human Coordination

The token swap increases alignment between two projects that are both working to transform the future of human coordination on the blockchain.

2023 DAO Global Hackathon: Everything You Need to Know to Get Involved

The DAO Global Hackathon is an exciting 4-week virtual event where hackers will leverage cutting-edge governance primitives and existing tools to enable the next generation of DAOs.

How to Start an Impact DAO

Impact DAOs use blockchain technology to power their work toward a good cause.

Announcements

Partnering with the Ukrainian Government to Bring DAO Education to Ukrainians

A new DAO course will put easy, fast DAO creation tools into the hands of all Ukrainians through the Diia app.

Developers

Building a DAO Framework: Interview with Aragon's CTO

In the new Aragon OS, “You have full mutability of your DAO without having to upgrade your contract.”

Announcements

New Aragon Stack Launching at EthDenver

Our new tech stack is going live on mainnet during EthDenver, and we can’t wait to share it with you!

Education

How Aavegotchi Used Aragon to Build a Metaverse Gaming Protocol

“We want to build crypto experiences together as a DAO” - Jesse, cofounder of Aavegotchi

Announcements

Announcing Partners for the 2023 DAO Global Hackathon

Join us in April to build the bear with top names in the DAO ecosystem!

Education

Zero Knowledge Proofs and DAOs: How to Build a Private Organization

Artem, Research Engineer from the Aragon Zero Knowledge Research Guild, shares findings and thoughts on the future of ZK.

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 Metagovernance?

Metagovernance is when a DAO has voting power in another DAO.

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

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.

Education

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.