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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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

Announcements

Meet The New Aragon Protocol

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

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

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.

Education

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.

Announcements

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.

Education

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.

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.

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

AN DAO Votes to Donate $100k to DAOs Supporting Ukrainian People

Aragon Network DAO has voted to donate $100k to Unchain Fund, a DAO seeking to break the chain of war and provide humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people. We are also offering support to UkraineDAO.

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

How to Start a Play-to-Earn Guild (from your Bedroom) | F8 Guild

Delve into the world of Play-to-Earn (P2E) and GameFi. Learn how F8 Guild is revolutionizing gaming by self-organizing as an Aragon Client DAO.