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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

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'

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Aragon Network has always been destined to be governed by ANT holders. The first version [https://github.com/aragon/whitepaper/tree/v1] of the Aragon Network whitepaper stated: [W]hen the network is deployed governance decisions will be made by ANT holders with a system of proposals and voting.

Decentralizing Aragon community governance On October 16th we announced [https://forum.aragon.org/t/request-for-comment-agp-1-the-aragon-governance-proposal-process/233] the opening of the public review and comment period for the draft of AGP-1, the newly proposed Aragon Governance Proposal process. This review period ended last Friday, November 9th, and was followed by a

Aragon Network Vote #2, the second vote held under the Aragon Governance Proposal (AGP) process [https://github.com/aragon/AGPs/blob/master/AGPs/AGP-1.md], is scheduled to begin on April 25, 2019 at 16:00 UTC. Read on for instructions about how to participate in the vote. Since the

Aragon Network Vote #3 is scheduled to begin on July 25, 2019 at 16:00 UTC. Read on for instructions about how to participate in the vote. Since the last [https://blog.aragon.org/final-results-from-aragon-network-vote-2/] Aragon Network vote, a total of eleven proposals were submitted for review before the deadline.

Following a one-week delay enacted [https://forum.aragon.org/t/anv-4-delay-announcement/1367] by the Aragon Association Board of Directors, Aragon Network Vote #4 is scheduled to begin on October 31, 2019 at 16:00 UTC. Read on for instructions about how to participate in the vote. Since the previous [https:

Aragon Network Vote #5 is scheduled to begin on December 11, 2019 at 16:00 UTC. Read on for instructions about how to participate in the vote. Since the previous [https://blog.aragon.org/final-results-from-aragon-network-vote-4/] Aragon Network vote, a total of nine proposals were submitted for review by the Aragon

Aragon Network Vote #6 (ANV-6) is scheduled to begin on March 11, 2020 at 16:00 UTC. The Aragon Association Board of Directors has considered and approved [https://mainnet.aragon.org/#/associationboard/0xc9cae3ba406c96f4a6e92aea68b8589781222cbe/vote/59/] one proposal for the final ballot. Read on for instructions about how to participate in

On January 26, 2019, Aragon Network Vote #1, the first vote held under the newly ratified Aragon Governance Proposal Process, concluded. Twelve proposals were submitted before the deadline, and nine were approved [https://github.com/aragon/AGPs/pull/23] by the Aragon Association Board of Directors to move to the

On April 27, 2019, Aragon Network Vote #2 concluded. Nine Aragon Governance Proposals (AGPs) were approved [https://blog.aragon.org/final-details-for-aragon-network-vote-2/] by the Aragon Association Board of Directors to go on to the final ballot. Six AGPs were ultimately approved and three were rejected by ANT holders in this vote

On July 27, 2019, Aragon Network Vote #3 concluded. Eight Aragon Governance Proposals (AGPs) were approved [https://blog.aragon.org/final-details-for-aragon-network-vote-3/] by the Aragon Association Board of Directors to go on to the final ballot. Seven AGPs were ultimately approved and one was rejected by ANT holders in this vote.

On November 2, 2019, Aragon Network Vote #4 concluded. Fifteen Aragon Governance Proposals (AGPs) were approved [https://blog.aragon.org/final-details-for-aragon-network-vote-4/] by the Aragon Association Board of Directors to go on to the final ballot. Nine AGPs were ultimately approved and six were rejected by ANT holders in this vote.

On December 13, 2019, Aragon Network Vote #5 concluded. Six Aragon Governance Proposals (AGPs) were approved [https://blog.aragon.org/final-details-for-aragon-network-vote-5/] by the Aragon Association Board of Directors to go on to the final ballot. Five AGPs were ultimately approved and one was rejected by ANT holders in this vote.

On March 13, 2020, Aragon Network Vote #6 concluded. In this vote, ANT holders had only one proposal to consider: AGP-155 [https://github.com/aragon/AGPs/blob/master/AGPs/AGP-155.md], a proposal to sunset the Aragon Governance Proposal process that the Aragon project has used for signalling decisions since