Aragon

The countdown is on! With just three days left before registration closes and less than two weeks until the event kicks off, AraCon [https://aracon.one] is officially right around the corner. This post has two purposes. For those of you who have registered already, think of this as your

Sandboxing Ethereum dapps with Electron When we chose what would be our main build target for Aragon, our priorities for choosing Electron + MetaMask were security and usability. Of course Aragon also runs on any Web3 environment (like Mist, Parity, Chrome with MetaMask...) but we wanted to have a build target

We announced Aragon Flock [https://blog.aragon.org/flock-funding-for-aragon-teams/] in late 2018. The idea was to decentralize the development of the project by offering sizable grants to teams who would build the Aragon Network and its core infrastructure. We wanted to find founders willing to assemble teams to build core

Aragon Fundraising has launched today as part of the 0.8.7 release! On January 7th, we began the pre-activation phase for Aragon Court [https://anj.aragon.org]. In this phase, people can get ANJ, Aragon Court’s native token, by locking ANT at a constant rate of 100 ANJ

AGP-104 [https://github.com/aragon/AGPs/blob/master/AGPs/AGP-104.md] proposed the App Mining Program in ANV-4. The proposal identified a lack of incentives to develop, maintain, and promote Aragon apps outside of narrow one-off grants, and that these grants do not seem to properly incentivize developers to identify

CENTRALIZATION IS STRENGTH The poster called out from the wall it was taped to as DevCon4 attendees walking by pointed and wondered aloud what the message meant. The URL at the bottom provided a hint, once entered into a web browser: www.unfreedom.org [https://unfreedom.org]. The concept was

Existing test organizations deployed on Rinkeby [https://www.rinkeby.io/] to be deprecated after Oct. 28th. Since the launch of Aragon Core v0.5 [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-core-v0-5-the-architect-release-327c7163b89c/] on the Rinkeby testnet this March, the Aragon One [http://blog.aragon.one/introducing-aragon-one-b14dd804c5ce/] development team has been continually improving and

How to deploy and distribute a censorship-resistant upgradeable dapp From the inception of the first versions of Aragon we took building a truly decentralized app very seriously. We decided that just using Ethereum as the settlement layer was not enough, because if a significant part of the infrastructure depended on

Incentivizing new teams to work on common Aragon infrastructure We have already explained why we are decentralizing Aragon's development [https://blog.aragon.one/decentralizing-aragons-development-5062fd6d135d], how we are decentralizing the legal vehicle that represents the project [https://blog.aragon.one/decentralizing-aragons-development-ii-minimum-viable-foundation-8ec1f9a13ebc] and introduced Aragon One, the first company contributing

Reducing the Aragon Foundation to its minimum in order to decentralize the governance and development of the project We have previously shared our plans to transform the Aragon project to a community governed project [https://blog.aragon.one/aragon-will-be-community-governed-5069ed8d0a33]. As described in the decentralizing Aragon's development [https://blog.

Splitting the Foundation from the core devs, and kickstarting funding for other teams to work on Aragon In the tech world, startups usually capitalize by amassing Intellectual Property, data, and governance. They attempt to centralize all this to their own benefit. Most crypto projects that are pursuing decentralization can'

Disintermediating trade  is the first step towards a fairer world We take most power for granted. After all, humans enforce most of their social contracts by giving away some freedom. We usually think about intermediaries in a microscopic scale. We think about the person who delivered us a package. Or

Coordination is humanity’s killer app. It's what's allowed us to dominate Planet Earth. Markets, corporations and nation states have allowed us to coordinate more effectively, on a larger scale, achieving the impossible. Today we face incredibly challenging problems. Success depends on our ability to coordinate

Exploring how the valuation models fail to account for protocol commoditization This post explores how the valuation models used to evaluate decentralized service protocols leveraging work tokens fail to account for protocol commoditization. When this effect is considered, protocol tokens appear to only be able to capture a small portion

How we built an Ethereum operating system that is upgradeable, secure and easy to use For users, Aragon Core [https://app.aragon.org/] is the easiest way to create unstoppable organizations. The UI abstracts away technical details, and lets the user focus on what matters. When using Aragon Core, users

Aragon Monthly is a community curated digital newspaper about DAOs and the Aragon ecosystem There, I said it. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations aka DAOs have for too long been a taboo few dared to speak out loud. The catastrophic failure of The DAO [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_%28organization%

ANT now on Kyber, more liquidity in Kyber and Uniswap. Back when we started Aragon in 2016, decentralized exchanges on Ethereum were a dream, just like DAOs. Now, both are realities. Decentralized exchanges have changed the rules of the game. Now you can exchange assets programmatically and with minimal friction.

Aragon Network Vote #3 (ANV-3) is approaching, and with it a significant milestone for the Flock program. In October 2018, the Aragon Association decided to radically decentralize the development of Aragon products by creating Aragon Flock. Aragon Flock is a grants program governed by ANT holders. It funds a set

Aragon is a movement to fight for freedom [https://blog.aragon.org/the-aragon-manifesto-4a21212eac03/]. The vision is so ambitious that the possibilities are endless. We are pushing forward many fronts that are revolutionizing the way humans organize. We are creating the world's first working futarchy implementation [https://github.com/

How we plan to achieve transparency and inclusion for the community Our community is everything for us. With Aragon, we want a thousand communities to flourish. Tokens align the incentives of communities and projects towards the same goals and values. But those communities are the center of where the magic

Aragon’s legal entity and operations are moving to Zug, Switzerland We first met with the government of Zug a year ago, thanks to Ethereum's cofounder and Aragon's advisor Mihai Alisie. Mihai set up Ethereum Foundation's operations in Zug back in the day, and

What community governance really entails Since the inception of the project, Aragon's vision has been to be open source software and to give power over it to the people who use it. The whole platform will be a community effort --- and it will take time to build

TL;DR: ANT is a MiniMe Token with built-in vesting functionality. Two security audits are currently being performed and a bug bounty will begin soon. ANT contract code is live on Github [https://github.com/AragonOne/aragon-network-token]. This post will discuss the ANT base token and its functionality, the ANT