Aragon

We released aragonOS on mainnet in 2018. Since then, aragonOS has secured more than $300m and powered more than 1,500 DAOs. aragonOS put special emphasis on power-users, who could leverage a wide range of permission settings to customize their DAO. But that came at the expense of developer

Update: The ballot for this vote has closed and the proposal has passed. View the results here. [https://snapshot.page/#/aragon/proposal/QmWXJvo5zXA2uSgMMCLSyFgwxnpHKP2D7NM4RqDriNjEwo] Aragon Chain was announced in October [https://blog.aragon.one/aragon-chain/] 2019 by core developers Aragon One. ChainSafe [https://chainsafe.io/] has been in charge of

> Update:Aragon Forum [https://forum.aragon.org/t/aragon-one-withdraws-merge-anj-into-ant-proposal/2398/2] ANJ was launched in February 2020 [https://aragon.org/blog/launching-aragon-court] as the work token for Aragon Court [https://court.aragon.org] jurors. Since then, over 250 jurors have

For years, the main focus of the Aragon ecosystem has been building tools for DAOs to thrive. As of today, Aragon DAOs have more than $350M in assets under management and help govern an economy worth billions of dollars. Aragon is the leading DAO platform. We always believed that DAO

Optimistic voting [https://forum.aragon.org/t/simple-voting-relay-protocol-optimistic-vote-tallying/473] has been a hot topic in the Aragon community for some time. When we started researching the topic, it cost a few cents for a user to vote. Today, with Ethereum being clogged, it can

The Aragon Association is excited to announce the addition of the Aragon Network DAO contracts to the Aragon Network Bug Bounty program. The bounty pool is $250k with a max of $50k per reward available to security researchers. Not only are these contracts critical for the Aragon Network DAO, but

With the first community review of the Aragon Network Agreement [https://aragon.org/blog/introducing-the-aragon-network-agreement] now complete, it’s time for the Agreement to face its first set of tests in Aragon Court. The purpose of these tests is to see how the Agreement holds up

With the Aragon Network DAO launch coming soon [https://twitter.com/AragonProject/status/1296133042772365314], ease of access to ANT has never been more important. A month ago, we announced the first ANT liquidity rewards program [https://aragon.org/blog/liquidity-rewards] on Uniswap to improve ANT liquidity depth on decentralized

Update: The CF Pilot is live now, click below for voting and proposals > https://conviction.aragon.org ‍ We’re thrilled announce a new asset allocation experiment: The Conviction Funding pilot. ANT holders will grant $50k to community proposals through the new Conviction Voting app. The Aragon community knows well

Introduction Aragon Court includes multiple economic incentives for jurors to motivate their rulings and secure the system. These incentives can be categorized into dispute-based rewards and subscription-based rewards. Dispute-based rewards come from the submitter's fees each time a dispute is submitted, and from the jurors&

ANT is an ERC20 token using the MiniMe standard [https://medium.com/giveth/the-minime-token-open-sourced-by-giveth-2710c0210787] . This token standard has very powerful features for on-chain voting and governance. MiniMe tokens have a controller, which is a smart contract that can perform certain privileged actions

Aragon Chain [https://aragon.org/chain] is a Proof-of-Stake, EVM-compatible blockchain focused on DAOs. Let’s unpack that. First, Aragon Chain uses Proof-of-Stake. This is a similar model to the one that Ethereum 2.0 will adopt. Second, Aragon Chain is compatible with the EVM

aragonOS has come a long way since its last major release in October 2018 [https://aragon.org/blog/releasing-aragonos-4]. Two years later, it now secures more than $300M [http://deepdao.io/#/deepdao/dashboard] and 1500 on-chain organizations [https://apiary.1hive.org/] on Ethereum’s mainnet. Over fifteen

Last week we published the first public draft of the Aragon Network Agreement [https://aragon.org/blog/introducing-the-aragon-network-agreement], the subjective rules governing the Aragon Network. The Agreement enables us to encode principles and guidelines into Aragon Network governance that cannot be directly understood by machines. However,

We are thrilled to announce Aragon's first foray into ANT liquidity rewards. Following in the footsteps of other great DeFi projects such as Synthetix [https://www.synthetix.io/], that pioneered the concept of liquidity rewards, the Aragon Association has decided to launch our own ANT liquidity rewards program.

In January 2020, the Aragon community kicked off Phase 1 of the Aragon Network launch with the pre-activation period [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-court-pre-activation/] of Aragon Court. One month later, Phase 2 of the Aragon Network launch began with the launch of Aragon Court [https://aragon.

DAOs [https://aragon.org/dao] allow people anywhere in the world to work together and form grassroots movements. Previously, developers creating experiences for Aragon could only do so inside the Aragon client [https://hack.aragon.org/docs/client]. While some developers have created their standalone experiences, it wasn’t easy!

> “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” ‍ Hack for Freedom * 25 projects * 52 participants * 12+ countries * 25,000 ANT in prizes won * 2000+ support messages * 12 third party app integrations * 20+ custom DAO interfaces In early June we started playing

‍ During the current DeFi summer, there have been a number of teams and crypto projects that have launched their Aragon DAOs. In fact, Aragon has been the leading DAO platform [https://poweredby.aragon.org] powering DeFi projects. Aragon One helped some of these projects in the early days, by onboarding

An intro to the principles of governance. Every collective action whether it is a small group or a vast nation-state follows a governance process. Sometimes this process is formalized, well-documented, and rigid. Other times it is so fluid and informal that it is difficult to observe. The purpose