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Update: The CF Pilot is live now, click below for voting and proposals > https://conviction.aragon.org ‍ We’re thrilled announce a new asset allocation experiment: The Conviction Funding pilot. ANT holders will grant $50k to community proposals through the new Conviction Voting app. The Aragon community knows well

ANT is an ERC20 token using the MiniMe standard [https://medium.com/giveth/the-minime-token-open-sourced-by-giveth-2710c0210787] . This token standard has very powerful features for on-chain voting and governance. MiniMe tokens have a controller, which is a smart contract that can perform certain privileged actions on the token. The vision was always for

Introduction Aragon Court includes multiple economic incentives for jurors to motivate their rulings and secure the system. These incentives can be categorized into dispute-based rewards and subscription-based rewards. Dispute-based rewards come from the submitter's fees each time a dispute is submitted, and from the jurors' stake when

Aragon Chain [https://aragon.org/chain] is a Proof-of-Stake, EVM-compatible blockchain focused on DAOs. Let’s unpack that. First, Aragon Chain uses Proof-of-Stake. This is a similar model to the one that Ethereum 2.0 will adopt. Second, Aragon Chain is compatible with the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine). This means

aragonOS has come a long way since its last major release in October 2018 [https://aragon.org/blog/releasing-aragonos-4]. Two years later, it now secures more than $300M [http://deepdao.io/#/deepdao/dashboard] and 1500 on-chain organizations [https://apiary.1hive.org/] on Ethereum’s mainnet. Over fifteen Aragon apps, built

Last week we published the first public draft of the Aragon Network Agreement [https://aragon.org/blog/introducing-the-aragon-network-agreement], the subjective rules governing the Aragon Network. The Agreement enables us to encode principles and guidelines into Aragon Network governance that cannot be directly understood by machines. However, the Agreement makes up

We are thrilled to announce Aragon's first foray into ANT liquidity rewards. Following in the footsteps of other great DeFi projects such as Synthetix [https://www.synthetix.io/], that pioneered the concept of liquidity rewards, the Aragon Association has decided to launch our own ANT liquidity rewards program.

DAOs [https://aragon.org/dao] allow people anywhere in the world to work together and form grassroots movements. Previously, developers creating experiences for Aragon could only do so inside the Aragon client [https://hack.aragon.org/docs/client]. While some developers have created their standalone experiences, it wasn’t easy!

In January 2020, the Aragon community kicked off Phase 1 of the Aragon Network launch with the pre-activation period [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-court-pre-activation/] of Aragon Court. One month later, Phase 2 of the Aragon Network launch began with the launch of Aragon Court [https://aragon.org/blog/launching-aragon-court] on

> “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” ‍ Hack for Freedom * 25 projects * 52 participants * 12+ countries * 25,000 ANT in prizes won * 2000+ support messages * 12 third party app integrations * 20+ custom DAO interfaces In early June we started playing

‍ During the current DeFi summer, there have been a number of teams and crypto projects that have launched their Aragon DAOs. In fact, Aragon has been the leading DAO platform [https://poweredby.aragon.org] powering DeFi projects. Aragon One helped some of these projects in the early days, by onboarding

AraCon [https://aracon.one/] is right around the corner. We’ve shared the full schedule [https://aracon.one/agenda], along with an overview of the themes that will drive the event. We’ve worked hard to make sure that the content represents the most interesting ideas and the most interesting

To ANT holders: Jorge and I started Aragon almost three years ago. It feels both like yesterday and also centuries ago. We are now in a unique position in which we are one quarter away from delivering everything we promised in the token sale. Few teams can say that. But

The Aragon Network Token has vesting built in that limits the transferability of the token until a specified time. ANT holders can transfer ANT in the normal way transfer(address to, uint value). Special whitelisted holders can transfer them by creating a vested token grant grantVestedTokens(address to, uint value,

Background AGP-1: The Aragon Governance Proposal Process was approved in November 2018. Since then, there have been five Aragon Network Votes (ANVs) under the Aragon Governance Proposal (AGP) process [https://github.com/aragon/AGPs/blob/master/AGPs/AGP-1.md]. In this report, the Aragon Association looks at the accomplishments of

In the year since Aragon 0.6 was released to Ethereum Mainnet, the underlying smart contracts powering Aragon organizations have continued to improve. Both Aragon 0.7 and 0.8 were launched with contract changes relevant for all Aragon users. From day one, aragonOS was designed with the assumption that

This is a continuation post to the work we did with Zeppelin [https://openzeppelin.org/] for the article on Proxy libraries [https://medium.com/zeppelin-blog/proxy-libraries-in-solidity-79fbe4b970fd#.uq9i8phbl] for code upgradeability. Reading that post is not required in order to understand this one, but it is definitely a recommended read, as

Aragon Network Vote #1, the first vote held under the recently ratified Aragon Governance Proposal (AGP) process [https://github.com/aragon/AGPs/blob/master/AGPs/AGP-1.md], is scheduled to begin on January 24, 2019 at 00:00 UTC. Read on for instructions about how to participate in this historic

Last year, we started organizing All Aragon Devs calls to coordinate development work between contributors to the various Aragon software repositories. On these calls, we discuss everything dev-related from syncing up on what has happened since the last call to work on upcoming sprints to open questions and challenges that

Today we’re announcing the first Aragon Conference — AraCon. Aragon was conceptualized in late 2016 by Luis [http://blog.aragon.one/team-interviews-luis-aragons-project-lead-c4916bb3cfb4/] and Jorge [http://blog.aragon.one/team-interviews-jorge-aragons-tech-lead-dae54d7eacac/]. They started building the community around the project with the first blog post “Introducing Aragon: Unstoppable companies [https://blog.aragon.org/

Where research meets development Participants committed to leveraging decentralized governance Co-Author of this post —Tatu Kärki [https://medium.com/@Smokyish] Ever since the early days of the Aragon project we've known that there will be obstacles that we'll need to solve. Concepts that exist, but require

The first major version of aragonUI [https://ui.aragon.org/] is finally out, and what a journey it has been! This post is meant to expose some of the principles we followed, what we’ve introduced, how to upgrade to 1.0 [https://ui.aragon.org/how-to-upgrade/], and where aragonUI

The aragonCLI is one of the most important tools Aragon users and developers have at their disposal. It is capable of interacting directly with the smart contracts that comprise an Aragon organization, making it more versatile and powerful than the graphical interface, at the cost of it having a steeper

Aragon will migrate to Rocket Chat along with 10 other Ethereum projects Today we are announcing the plan of several Ethereum based projects to migrate to the open source messaging platform Rocket Chat [https://rocket.chat/]. Aragon will be migrating our community out of Slack and onto Rocket Chat [https: