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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:

ANT sale starts on May 17th. Bootstrapping the creation of the world’s first digital jurisdiction. We have been asked countless times about whether we would do a token sale or not. Our answer always was: if it makes sense, we will! After launching Aragon, we spent a lot of

With Aragon, we set out to create software that makes it easy to create and run decentralized organizations. However, meaningless ETH addresses made sending funds and completing transactions for operating a business unnecessarily complicated. Fortunately, ENS (Ethereum Name Service) recently solved this issue by enabling the assignment of human-readable names

We're pleased to announce the full agenda [https://aracon.one/agenda/] for the first AraCon [https://twitter.com/hashtag/AraCon2019], happening in Berlin on January 29-30, 2019. This is an important moment for our industry. Almost a decade after Satoshi marked the Genesis block of Bitcoin [https://en.

Aragon and Messari join forces in a step forward for ANT transparency. Aragon has always pushed forward best practices for the ecosystem. Since the early days, the Aragon Association (previously Aragon Institution) has provided transparency in fund management. We have also empowered the community via DAO signaling. We knew being

ANT holders can now deposit and withdraw tokens using Coinbase Custody Coinbase Custody is a qualified custodian of crypto assets, crossing $7 billion of assets [https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-custody-acquires-xapos-institutional-business-becoming-the-world-s-largest-crypto-2c1b46fc94c4] under custody as of August 2019. Coinbase Custody is trusted by investment firms like a16z Crypto, Placeholder, and Polychain Capital.

We believe that everyone should be able to use decentralized organizations. That's why making them easy and secure matters. Bella is the easiest-to-use Aragon release to date. Let's discover why. Call people by their name Ethereum addresses identify who you are interacting with. Who owns the

A glimpse into the future of organizations that you can use today Tao or Dao is a Chinese word signifying the way, path, or road, or sometimes more loosely doctrine, principle or holistic beliefs. We use female Spanish names for Aragon releases, inspired by the story of Maria [https://blog.

Decentralized organizations just got real. We released Aragon 0.5 seven months ago [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-core-v0-5-the-architect-release-327c7163b89c/]. Since then, more than 2,500 organizations have been created with it. Counting all Aragon versions, the total number of Aragon organizations now adds up to 15,000+. That's more

Aragon is taking action against censorship by moving away from Medium. On the journey that we are on, making Web3.0, the decentralized web, a reality, there will be obstacles we need to overcome. Hurdles set by those clinging on to their power by any means necessary, even going as

The Aragon Association was born in December 2018, as a Switzerland-based Association [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-zug-f4d7aaff15e1/], with Luis Cuende and Jorge Izquierdo as its board members. In January 2019, Stefano Bernardi joined the Association [https://blog.aragon.org/welcoming-stefano-to-the-aragon-association/] to fulfill the Executive Director role. Since AGP-11 [https://github.

In my first letter to ANT holders [https://blog.aragon.org/a-founder-comeback/] I announced that I would be stepping up as the Executive Director of the Aragon Association. I also detailed the mandate of the Aragon Association, and its very important role in the project now. It’s historic times