New in the Aragon app: BORGs—Legal Modularity for Onchain Organizations

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New in the Aragon app: BORGs—Legal Modularity for Onchain Organizations

Set up limited-liability wrappers for the wallets and roles that run your protocol. No paperwork, no slowdown.

For years, decentralized organizations have been stuck in regulatory limbo. Projects that move at the speed of code often rely on opaque, off‑chain entities that slow them down and create unnecessary risk. The legal structures available simply haven’t kept up with the pace and ethos of crypto.

Today, we’re introducing BORGs with Aragon and MetaLeX. Originated and developed by MetaLeX and integrated into the Aragon stack, BORGs embed legal personhood directly into the smart‑contract addresses and roles that run your project.

This launch marks a new milestone for onchain governance: modular legal protection is now accessible to any protocol via a few clicks in the Aragon App alongside the MetaLeX Protocol for deeper granularity and legal engineering. Wrap your treasury multisig, core team wallet, or grants committee in legal certainty. It’s limited liability, onchain, where and when you need it.

BORGs with Aragon and MetaLeX let you wrap specific wallets and roles with limited liability, without dragging the rest of your project into a bulky off‑chain structure. Built by MetaLeX and integrated into Aragon, they add legal coverage so there’s no need for separate paperwork, external lawyers, or downtime.

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  • Flexibility and precision: External addresses and granular permissions let you map legal authority to exactly the wallets, contracts, or sub‑modules that need it, keeping your protocol lightweight while protecting high‑liability functions.
  • Future‑proof by design: BORGs grow with your organization. Add or update roles (grants committee, product team, sub‑module) without migrating contracts or re‑filing documents, always matching the latest in your operations and regulatory environments.. Run multiple BORGs side‑by‑side, one for treasury, another for the product team, a third for your foundation, each with its own scope and responsibilities.
  • Secure, modular integration: As native plugins in Aragon OSx, BORGs isolate legal logic from your core contracts. That makes governance safer and faster to customize while reducing the scope of audits, all from within the Aragon app.

Put these capabilities together and you get an onchain legal toolkit that mirrors your org’s structure: wrap your grants committee in its own legal entity so they can sign agreements; give your security council a separate BORG to manage high‑risk actions; even empower specific individuals to carry out defined tasks. It’s modular, scalable, and always in sync with your protocol.

Our shared design philosophy is simple: law and code can work together. As the regulatory landscape shifts, onchain projects can’t afford to wait for off‑chain clarity. Modular, programmable frameworks like BORGs let protocols remain compliant and decentralized, ready for whatever policy or market changes come next.

“DAO-adjacent BORGs work best hand-in-hand with the kind of fully onchain governance Aragon pioneered and still delivers better than any other DAO stack; together, MetaLeX and Aragon can achieve the best of both worlds—fully decentralized/autonomous DAOs connected onchain to cybernetic legal entities.”

— Gabriel Shapiro, Co‑Founder & CEO, MetaLeX Labs

Increasingly, other industry leaders such as Miles Jennings of a16z have argued that it’s time to move beyond cumbersome, foundation‑based models and embrace innovative onchain solutions that evolve alongside protocols. BORGs on Aragon and MetaLeX deliver exactly that: a legal framework that grows with your project and matches its structure.

BORGs are the first chapter in a broader vision: flexible legal architecture for every onchain organization, from small projects and startups to multibillion‑dollar protocols. They anchor your operations in a system that’s native to blockchains, ensuring compliance and control with minimal off‑chain overhead.

Deploy your BORG Today

To set up a BORG for your protocol or onchain project, you’ll need to get in touch with MetaLeX and Aragon. First to establish and deploy a BORG structured to your needs. MetaLex will help design the legal structure, handle the documentation, and generate a signer address for your entity.

Thanks to Aragon’s no‑code interface, once set up with MetaLeX, you can deploy your wrapper in minutes: simply select your roles, drop in the MetaLeX signer address, approve the proposal, and your onchain legal entity goes live.

From there, you have a flexible, future‑proof legal architecture that evolves alongside your protocol. No migrations, no repeated paperwork, and no compromise on speed or decentralization.

Reach out to the team today to set up a call and get started.