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A recap of what has been going on with Aragon during Q3 2018. As per our Transparency Model [https://blog.aragon.org/why-transparency-matters-d6f9e6e10985], we do quarterly Transparency Reports of our use of funds and about the overall progress of the project. Transparency Framework [https://transparency.aragon.org/] This is our

Progress of development from the third quarter of 2018. A number of major milestones were reached in the months of July to September, 2018. Culminating in our decision to buckle down and launch the first Mainnet release of Aragon at Devcon IV [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-06-is-live-on-mainnet/]. Permissions App The

This quarter we have been hard at work developing the new v0.5 release. This release paves the way for Aragon [https://aragon.one/] to be an extendable governance tool which supports all possible use cases. It has required an immense amount of changes, including a re-architecturing called aragonOS [https:

A recap of what has been going on with Aragon during Q3 2017 As per our Transparency Model [https://blog.aragon.one/why-transparency-matters-d6f9e6e10985], we do quarterly Transparency Reports of our use of funds and about the overall progress of the project. Transparency Framework [https://transparency.aragon.one/] This is our

The progress of development from the fourth quarter of 2018 The fourth quarter of 2018, spanning the months of October to December, was all about shipping, iterating, and then more shipping. The period also coincided with many breakthroughs on our research, from scalable on-chain voting to a crystallization of the

A recap of what has been going on with Aragon during Q4 2018. As per our Transparency Model [https://blog.aragon.org/why-transparency-matters-d6f9e6e10985], we do quarterly Transparency Reports of our use of funds and about the overall progress of the project. Transparency Framework [https://transparency.aragon.org/] This is our

Progress of development from the last quarter of 2017 In the last quarter of 2017 we were heads down developing everything for the version 0.5 release [https://wiki.aragon.one/documentation/Development_Plan/#05-the-refactor-release] of the Aragon Core [https://aragon.one/core/] app. Lots of progress was made, first

A recap of what has been going on with Aragon during Q4 2017 As per our Transparency Model [https://blog.aragon.one/why-transparency-matters-d6f9e6e10985], we do quarterly Transparency Reports of our use of funds and about the overall progress of the project. Transparency Framework [https://transparency.aragon.one/] This is our

Getting ready to offer Aragon to 2.3bn smartphone users Our mission at Aragon is to make decentralized organizations widespread. To achieve our mission, we built a dApp to easily create and operate decentralized organizations on Ethereum. First, we focused on building a feature rich web and desktop (including MacOS,

Welcoming district0x to the Aragon Network Jurisdiction When Jorge and I first set out to build Aragon [https://aragon.one/], we had a vision of creating an operating system for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, providing the infrastructure upon which organizations of the future would organize, administrate, and govern themselves. Our mission

ANT sale begins on Ethereum mainnet’s block 3,723,000 — May 17, ~6pm GMT How to Participate in the Sale * Wait for block 3,723,000 (May 17 at approximately 6pm GMT). You can check what the latest block is on Etherscan [http://etherscan.io/]. After block 3,722,

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

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

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

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 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/

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

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 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%

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

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

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