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A new command line tool for building Aragon apps, a straightforward tutorial, and reference documentation for all the building blocks Aragon is a complete stack to run decentralized organizations. It makes experimenting with governance at the speed of software possible. You can create Aragon apps that interact with each other

🚨 In this communications release, we are disclosing a potential security vulnerability in any Aragon organizations created before April 17, 2019. To the best of our knowledge, no users or organizations have been affected—you are safe. The vulnerability itself is extremely difficult to exploit, and would have occurred only by

It was a year ago when I announced I was to join the Aragon Association as the first Executive Director. Reading older blog posts you’ve written is a fruitful exercise. It can help you re-contextualize information, and can help you remember why you had particular hunches or stances on

A pledge to fight for freedom We believe that the fate of humanity will be decided at the frontier of technological innovation. We will either see technology lead to a more free, open, and fair society or reinforce a global regime of centralized control, surveillance, and oppression. Our fear is

district0x, the first manifestation of the Ethereum + Aragon stack Software allows us to abstract away from existing functionality to focus on building. At Aragon [https://aragon.one/], we use Ethereum [https://ethereum.org/]. Ethereum provides us the consensus layer to establish truth. And the ability to create smart contracts that

Bring your token, new bylaws, web version and more Bring your own token Tokens are changing the rules of the game. We don't need to think about obscure business models anymore. We can align our users' incentives with ours and release a token that implements that logic.

Aragon Nest was the first grants program [https://blog.aragon.org/introducing-aragon-nest-1aa8c91c0566/] launched to fund Ethereum and Aragon initiatives. The only one that predates it is the original Ethereum Foundation's program, which was suspended at the time. Aragon Nest funded the first Eth 2.0 implementation, pioneered by

Yesterday, we published our development plan for Aragon Core and the Aragon Network. This post explains in greater detail our structure to store and allocate funds from Aragon Network Token (ANT) sales, features of the next Aragon Core release, and plans to deploy the Aragon Network and its first organizations.

This post discusses governance [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance] and its impact on network effects [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect] and why both relate to how value flows and is captured within tokenized blockchain networks. Hardware, Software, and Data are commoditized by decentralization The process of commoditization

Why did we buy back ANT and how we will disclose these events We care about our community. Blockchain projects are a different kind of organization. They live in the open, welcome new contributors and are transparent by default. Before our token sale event, we published a Pre-Sale Transparency Report

With the release of Aragon 0.7 Bella, organizations now have the ability to upgrade their apps to the most recent versions from the organization’s App Center. This is the first time (that we’re aware of) that end-users of a decentralized app have been given the ability to

For the last month, hackers have been building new DAOs, apps, and tools for Hack for Freedom [https://hackforfreedom.org/]. The final submissions are in and we want ANT holders to help close out the event with a voting experiment. We want your help to decide the winner of a

A new cycle for the Aragon Association with Stefano Bernardi as its Executive Director. Earlier this year, I voluntarily resigned [https://blog.aragon.one/introducing-aragon-one-b14dd804c5ce/] as the Project Lead of Aragon. It doesn't make sense for a decentralized project to have a leader. In our efforts to decentralize

An intro to the principles of governance. Every collective action whether it is a small group or a vast nation-state follows a governance process. Sometimes this process is formalized, well-documented, and rigid. Other times it is so fluid and informal that it is difficult to observe. The purpose of this

The Aragon Foundation and Giveth are proud to announce the launch of Aragon DAC, a Decentralized Altruistic Community on the Giveth platform that will work on building out core Aragon infrastructure from the end user's perspective. Decentralizing Aragon the Giveth Way You might know by now that Aragon

Introductory questions How will this affect me as an Aragon Network Token holder? Not in any way. How will this affect me as a developer building on Aragon? Not in any way. How will this affect me as an Aragon DAO user? Not in any way. How will this affect