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After one month of preparation, starting with a public review and comment period [https://forum.aragon.org/t/request-for-comment-agp-1-the-aragon-governance-proposal-process/233/16] and ending with a final approval [https://github.com/aragon/AGPs/tree/master/signatures/AGP-1] by the Aragon Association Board of Directors, Aragon Network Token holders were given an

Quick recap of the details for today: * Sale starts on block 3,723,000. Previously announced estimation was off by like 3 hours, we estimate the sale will start somewhere around 6-7pm GMT. * Token and address for participating to the sale has been published at https://aragon.network [https://aragon.

Tell us what you think of Aragon and how we can improve the project in the future For us it has always been imperative that we learn what our community members think of the path the project is taking. Aragon will be community governed [https://blog.aragon.one/aragon-will-be-community-governed-5069ed8d0a33], it

The next step in decentralizing Aragon's development. Earlier this year we set the path for decentralizing Aragon's development [https://blog.aragon.org/decentralizing-aragons-development-iii-onboarding-new-teams-32786cb805a5/] . And, after half a year, our vision is already a reality. There are two teams working on Aragon's development already: Aragon

ANJ is now available for pre-activation. This post will contain the key dates and information you need to get ANJ. Get ANJ at anj.aragon.org [https://anj.aragon.org/] * Pre-activation begins January 7th at 4:00 PM UTC and ends February 10th at 12:00 AM UTC. * Pre-activating will

A grants program to support the development of the ecosystems Ethereum [https://ethereum.org/] is thriving as a platform for developers to build things on. But sometimes, the underlying core components necessary for these projects to grow and build their products are still missing. Developers need to have the fundamental

The first company contributing to Aragon’s development Since we released the first version of the Aragon whitepaper [http://wiki.aragon.one/documentation/whitepaper/], we knew that it was important to split the non-profit entity overseeing the project from the actual companies or teams working on its development [https://blog.

Intro We are so excited to announce the release of the new Aragon design system, a living project that will continue to evolve and further consolidate over the upcoming months. This journey began a little more than four months ago, during a design sprint week, when we made the decision

Smart contract codebase has been frozen, audit with WHG starts today and announcement for Aragon v0.5 release schedule The scope of Aragon's influence has been broadening ever since the team started growing from just myself and Luis to a dozen of brilliant freedom fighters. We've

Aragon’s new exokernel-inspired architecture The advent of decentralized organizations will create new forms of human coordination that we cannot even grasp yet. Therefore, our success as a project will come from being able to support many different types of organizations, from a small consulting firm to a decentralized meme

aragonSDK is the easiest way of creating fully decentralized applications. It has been around for more than a year now, and more than 25 apps have been created with it already. As Steve Ballmer once said, it's all about developers, developers, developers [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

Why him, why now and the road ahead We announced two of our Advisors [https://blog.aragon.one/announcing-the-aragon-advisors-6bda09c2f4b2] before the successful ANT sale. Kenny Rowe from the MakerDAO [http://makerdao.com/] project and Jake Brukhman of CoinFund [https://blog.coinfund.io/]. Both experts in their fields and respected members

A 3/5 multisig that will approve the deployment of the Aragon Network The Aragon Network Token (ANT) will initially begin as an upgradable token, but will evolve to serve as the governance token for the Aragon Network when deployed. We estimate that the Aragon Network will be deployed in

The road ahead to make decentralized organizations widespread Last week, we announced our token sale [https://blog.aragon.one/announcing-the-aragon-network-token-sale-fe83fe36902c] and its terms [https://blog.aragon.one/aragon-network-token-sale-terms-8998f63a3429]. Today, we will be addressing the future of Aragon, by releasing our Development Plan [https://github.com/AragonOne/docs/raw/master/Aragon-Development-Plan.

Solving the biggest hurdles to make decentralized organizations widespread Our first step was to develop an extremely easy to use product on top of the Ethereum blockchain that lets everyone run decentralized organizations. Now we have validated the concept, the market interest and most importantly, the main hurdles to realize

⚠️ The warnings in this advisory post apply only to organizations created before Sept. 11, 2019 (old organizations). If your organization was created through the Aragon client after the Aragon 0.8 release on Sept. 11, 2019 (new organizations), you will not be significantly impacted by the hard fork and do

On March 26th, Aragon Court's precedence campaign begins. These disputes will involve real Aragon application developers applying for App Mining rewards. Rewards will be funded by the Aragon App Mining program approved by ANT holders in AGP-104 [https://github.com/aragon/AGPs/blob/master/AGPs/AGP-104.md]. App

Why become a juror now The Aragon Court protocol is the backbone of the world's first digital jurisdiction, the Aragon Network, and it's launching soon. The arbiters of this jurisdiction are not politicians or judges in stone-clad buildings, but you and other digital natives from all

Grants program is open for submissions At the end of 2017 we presented Aragon Nest to the community and encouraged people to start coming up with ideas for the launch. In that blog post, Introducing Aragon Nest [https://blog.aragon.one/introducing-aragon-nest-1aa8c91c0566], we outlined the reasons and goals of the

The world’s first digital jurisdiction opens its doors ‍ ‍ Aragon was announced to the world on February, 10th 2017 — exactly three years ago. That’s why February 10th has been denominated as Fight for Freedom Day by our beloved community. In these three years, we have created and launched the

A comprehensive review on how to develop more modular, reusable and elegant smart contract systems on top of the Ethereum Virtual Machine by using libraries Solidity is a limited language Coming to Ethereum mainly from the lands of Swift and Javascript, developing in Solidity is definitely a step back in

How to prevent soulless corporations from making everyone miserable A lot of the world's problems don't come from malice. They come from sustained ineptitude over the course of decades. Ineptitude then manifests in many forms, and thus allowing incoherencies to flourish. Incoherencies can take many forms,