Aragon's Blog

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

Hey, hey, heeey! This is Aragon and we are coming to ETHBerlin, Berlin! We are so excited, so happy, really so thrilled to be Tier 5 – The Carlos Matos sponsor [https://ethberlin.com/sponsors/] of the hackathon. Our mentors [https://medium.com/ethberlin/so-you-think-you-can-mentor-280648923a0f] are coming, and they are coming

Aragon is a proud sponsor, mentor, and bounty provider at the ETHDenver hackathon For all of February 16--18, 2018 you can find several of Aragon team members at the ETHDenver hackathon [https://ethdenver.com/]. We're proud to be sponsoring this exciting event and are very much looking forward

Aragon's brand has gone through dozens of incremental changes since the project began. These incremental changes affected every part of the brand: the logo, colors, typography, illustrations... Rather than refining, the design language started to diverge. Today we are introducing a reimagined brand identity, rooted in principles and

On October 30, 2018 Aragon officially went live on Ethereum mainnet with the release of Aragon 0.6 Alba [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-06-is-live-on-mainnet/]. This was a huge milestone for the project, as previously the Aragon client was only usable on various testnets and only a few people had the

Aragon starts using the open source messaging platform Rocket Chat A couple of weeks ago we announced our migration to an open source messaging platform [https://blog.aragon.one/announcing-our-migration-to-an-open-source-messaging-platform-420b25e74284] , Rocket Chat, together with nine other Ethereum projects. Aragon.chat [https://aragon.chat/] is now open! Last friday we began

Welcome to the first Aragon community update! We’ve had a lot going on in the foreground and background of the community since I first joined as Community Lead last year [http://blog.aragon.one/team-interviews-john-aragons-community-lead-3b5c8fe55242/] and I’m excited to share some of what we’ve been up to.

Summary of our first new development cycle Background I joined Aragon in late February 2018. Developing a structured product management process is one of my main responsibilities. 0.5.1 was our first sprint attempt since I joined. This sprint concluded on 31 May 2018 with our Mainnet Survey app

The most powerful Aragon release to date We're extremely excited to be announcing the next major milestone of the Aragon project [https://aragon.org/] along with our new video! Today we're releasing the beta of Aragon Core [https://aragon.one/core] version 0.5— codenamed The

At the beginning of the year, we started working on Aragon Court and planned to launch it during 2019. After tons of milestones we’ve been through this year, today we are thrilled to announce that Aragon Court v1.0 has been released and deployed to the Ethereum mainnet. For

Launching Aragon Court and ANJ The Aragon Network DAO [http://https://mainnet.aragon.org/#/network/] has just deployed the Aragon Network Juror (ANJ) [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-court-is-live-on-mainnet/#whyanj] pre-activation smart contract. This pre-activation contract has received controller power over ANJ, allowing it to mint tokens according to the rules

Enhancing user experience while maximizing decentralization Before being a web application, Aragon was born as a desktop app [https://blog.aragon.org/introducing-aragon-unstoppable-companies-58c1fd2d00ce/] . The line between a web and a desktop app is blurring and will eventually become invisible. Yet, as of today, web apps are still limited, especially in

An incredible weekend of building and bonding with the Denver community This past weekend several members of the Aragon team, including Jorge [https://blog.aragon.one/team-interviews-jorge-aragons-tech-lead-dae54d7eacac], Luke [https://blog.aragon.one/team-interviews-luke-aragons-research-lead-5baf553d89bd] , Oliver [https://blog.aragon.one/team-interviews-oliver-aragons-senior-full-stack-web3-engineer-e908178afade] , and myself (John [https://blog.aragon.one/team-interviews-john-aragons-commu

Latest news from the Aragon Research & Development department, Labs [https://blog.aragon.org/announcing-aragon-labs-a679693429ae/] Our research efforts are on exploring how to realize the lofty ambition of becoming a decentralized, digital jurisdiction. Both the scope and range of services a jurisdiction could offer to attract its constituency are vast

First Aragon app launched on Ethereum Mainnet for community sentiment signaling Ever since the inception of Aragon, the goal has been for the community members to take part in how decisions affecting the project are made. Our objective of being community governed [https://blog.aragon.one/aragon-will-be-community-governed-5069ed8d0a33] has thus far