Aragon's Blog

DAO Global Hackathon - Open Lane

"So far, we are seeing ideas around Discord bots, project funding apps, crowdfunding models, meta-DAOs and educational content, as well as projects that touch upon reproductive health, agriculture and the adult industry."

Announcements

Welcoming Taylor Rawlings as Community Manager at the Aragon Association

"Run toward your passion and don't be deterred by fear - everything will come together."

Announcements

Welcoming Marco Magro as Senior Product Designer at Aragon Labs

"...I truly believe that we can give "power to the people" with our transparent voting solution."

Announcements

Welcoming Harry Wilson as Senior Product Marketing Manager at the Aragon Association

"There is a wave of optimistic, smart people doing as standard practice every day what was only talked about in decentralized projects before."

Events

Aragon at Democracy 4 All (D4A)

Aragon was at the D4A conference in Barcelona to debate issues around blockchain and technopolitics as well as demo our Vocdoni e-voting solution.

AN DAO

Applications Open for the Aragon Tech Support Guild

Apply now at discord.gg/RRQ4UeRPad

Announcements

Welcoming Evan Aronson as Senior Product Manager at Aragon Labs

"If we want inclusive systems for those who can’t simply pay or force their way in, we’re going to have to build them ourselves."

Announcements

Welcoming Martín Roldán as Data Scientist at the Aragon Association

"The same curiosity that turned me into a Data Scientist led me to discover blockchain and Web3, after which there was no turning back."

Community

Incentive Design & Tooling for DAOs

How to match a DAO's goals with the right incentive mechanisms to achieve them...

Education

How to Join a DAO

Spoiler alert: it's super easy!

Ecosystem

Lisbon Blockchain Week

Good times... thank you Lisbon!

Education

DAOs as Purpose-Led Organizations

"By incorporating as a DAO, any purpose-led organization can be equipped with the tools to allow horizontal leadership to flourish..."

Announcements

Funds Allocated to the Aragon Network DAO

"The transfer includes 24.15 $ETH, 100,000 $USDC and 20,429 $ANT"

Announcements

Welcoming Juliette Chevalier as Developer Advocate at the Aragon Association

"There was clearly a better opportunity for tangible, effective, global impact through technology than bureaucracy."

Community

Meet the Ambassadors

Aragon's Class of '21 are taking flight. Apply now at aragon.org/ambassadors

Announcements

AN DAO Launch

"...a highly scalable ecosystem of entrepreneurial teams that will be a source of perpetual innovation, without a single point of failure." Join in at andao.aragon.org.

Announcements

Aragon Client Deployed on Harmony

Aragon Client is now live on Harmony! Connect your Web3 wallet to Harmony and spin up a DAO for pennies at client.aragon.org

Announcements

Welcoming Dr. Michael Heuer as Solidity Developer & Researcher at the Aragon Association

"...distributed ledger technologies have opened up a hopeful path to fundamentally change the way we work, organize, and interact."

Announcements

Welcoming Andrea Gallagher as User Research Lead at the Aragon Association

"I'm excited to see DAOs moving up the learning curve and am looking forward to providing the most powerful tools possible to facilitate that success."

Announcements

DAO Global Hackathon: Bounties

GitCoin's biggest ever hackathon is live! Sign up at hackforfreedom.org

Community

What Is It Like to Join a DAO?

"...once I jumped in I realized very quickly how deep the waters are."

Education

Binding Execution on Ethereum with zk-Rollups

The latest research from Aragon Labs into secure, off-chain voting processes.

Education

Hey You Guys! Get Ready for GoonieDAOs

With Aragon now on Polygon, kids can set up DAOs for a few cents. Cue: adventures.

Education

Introducing First Party Oracles with API3

Aragon DAOs can now access Web2 data using Airnode: an open-source, first-party oracle built by the API3 DAO.

Announcements

Welcoming Ben Perez as Head of Talent & HR at the Aragon Association

"...when something belongs to us we don’t just care for it and nurture it, we are also entitled to our equal share in its growth and success. This is the DNA of DAO’s."