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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,

In the last few months the DAppNode project [https://dappnode.io/] has made a significant amount of progress in usability, UI and overall performance of the platform, as such we thought it would be a great time to give everyone an update. Since our initial funding request [https://github.com/

After creating a small proof of concept and being accepted in the Nest program [https://github.com/aragon/nest], we started our work on the Datastore and Drive App in August. If you are not familiar with our projects, the Datastore is a distributed storage library based on Aragon [https:

Frame [https://frame.sh] had an exciting Q3 that started with our first security audit conducted by Cure53 [https://cure53.de] and funded by Aragon [https://aragon.org]. We’re happy to report the results were very positive. If you’d like to know more about the audit or read

Aragon Nest was launched [https://blog.aragon.org/introducing-aragon-nest-1aa8c91c0566/] in December of 2017 as an ambitious grants program to accelerate the development of the Aragon and Ethereum communities. Nest has been recently phased out [https://aragon.org/blog/the-next-step-after-nest], and now our efforts are focused on supporting core contributors working

This second milestone was quite busy. ETH Berlin We had the chance to introduce Pando in various meetups during ETHBerlin [https://ethberlin.com/]. The feedback was awesome. But more on that soon. Development Regarding the dev side we re-organized our roadmap: we focused on re-architecturing the Pando's core

Once again, we are very satisfied with what we have put together this past quarter and how we have matured as a team with respect to our output and technical infrastructure. Here is a summary of Q3. Milestones Achieved * Succeeded in delivering our first release entailing a demo of an

The second of our Aragon Nest Team Interviews is with Pando [https://github.com/aragon/nest/pull/31] who are also [https://blog.aragon.org/nest-team-interviews-that-planning-suite/] working on an open source incentivization app. With this series, we want to bring forth the teams that have received a grant and funding