Aragon's Blog (Page 6)

Education

What is a DAO?

A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) is an organization run with smart contracts on a public blockchain.

Announcements

Welcoming Fabrice François as Junior Frontend Engineer at the Aragon Association

Our newest Junior Frontend Engineer with a passion for technical literacy and Real Madrid. Hala Fabrice!

Education

A Taxonomy of Voting Methods

From Default Choices to Quadratic Voting: An overview of the voting landscape.

Education

Choice Architecture & DAOs

The most profound change in governance since Magna Carta.

Education

A DAO Defined: The Big Picture

DAOs are internet-native organizations, and their time has come.

Education

How to Start a Charity (from your Bedroom) | Elimu

Elimu is a DAO set up to provide quality basic education for children everywhere.

Announcements

UMA KPI Options Airdrop Coming Soon to Aragon Govern DAOs

Aragon is airdropping 100,000 $ANT to DAOs that migrate from v1 to Aragon Govern.

Announcements

Welcoming Mathias Scherer as DevOps Engineer at the Aragon Association

Mathias Scherer has been appointed as DevOps Engineer at the Aragon Association.

Announcements

The Optimistic DAO: Aragon Govern + Aragon Voice + Aragon Court

Aragon's pioneering Optimistic Governance solution is now live on mainnet. Aragon Govern, Aragon Voice and Aragon Court all work together to enable fast, efficient and safe DAO management.

Announcements

Welcoming Selim Imoberdorf as Senior UX Designer at the Aragon Association

Selim Imoberdorf has been appointed as Senior UX Designer at the Aragon Association.

Education

How to Start a Hedge Fund (from your Bedroom) | Surf Finance

The story of how Surf Finance built a $5m hedge fund on an Aragon DAO.

Announcements

The $ANJ → $ANT Migration is Here!

$ANJ holders may convert their tokens to $ANT at the improved rate of 0.044 until September 5th 2021.

Education

How to DAO: Answers for Beginners

All the questions your mom will ask...

Announcements

Welcoming Andrew Ridge as Senior Content Writer at the Aragon Association.

Andrew Ridge has been appointed as Senior Content Writer at the Aragon Association.

Announcements

Uno Re: Pioneering the Reinsurance DAO

Uno Re will partner with Aragon to develop a reputation-based DAO for the reinsurance industry.

Education

15 Ways the World is being Transformed by DAOs

As people self-organize into DAOs, we will see the world transformed by a Cambrian explosion of activity that will do for organizations what the internet did for communication.

Announcements

Welcoming Ivan Fartunov as Head of Partnerships at the Aragon Association

Ivan Fartunov has been appointed as Head of Partnerships at the Aragon Association.

Announcements

Welcoming Daniel Ospina as Head of Governance at the Aragon Association

Daniel Ospina has been appointed as Head of Governance at the Aragon Association.

Announcements

Aragon Association to Sponsor 2021 Gitcoin Grants Program

The Aragon Association will be sponsoring Gitcoin’s new Decentralized Governance (dGov) category for two upcoming rounds of the Gitcoin Grants Program, launching on June 16th.

Announcements

Introducing Aragon Voice

We are thrilled to announce that the first instance of the Aragon OpenStack - Aragon Voice - is now live on the Ethereum mainnet.

Announcements

Aragon Partners with Witnet for Gasless DAO Management on Discord

The Aragon Association is delighted to announce its partnership with the Witnet decentralized oracle to provide off-chain, ‘optimistic’ voting for DAOs via Discord. Any Aragon DAO will be able to offer feeless, binding votes on DAO operations to any Discord channel member using only emoji reactions

Announcements

Welcoming Alexander Clayhills as the new Head of Transparency of the Aragon Association

Welcoming Alexander Clayhills-Henderson, as the new Head of Transparency of the Aragon Association. He will be responsible for making our decision-making process and internal resources more accessible to our community members.

Announcements

Welcoming Isabella de Brito as the Community Lead of the Aragon Association

We are thrilled to announce that Isabella de Brito has been appointed as Community Lead of the Aragon Association. Isabella has joined the team and will be in charge of creating and executing Aragon's community strategy, leading long-term initiatives to support and engage our growing community of developers,

Announcements

KPI options, the future of DAOs

Focusing a team towards key results is no easy task, let alone driving a whole community towards a shared common goal. Historically, DAOs have been lacking incentivization mechanisms to integrate goal-setting frameworks within their governance structure. KPI options are changing this. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs [https://aragon.org/dao]) empower

Introducing Aragon Fundraising

Update: Aragon Fundraising is now live on Ethereum mainnet and Rinkeby testnet. Try it out: https://app.aragon.org Aragon Fundraising, previously called Apiary, is an app built on top of Aragon, providing Aragon users an easy way to raise funds through an emergent organization. It has been developed by