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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

The latest issue of the community curated digital newspaper about DAOs, governance and the Aragon ecosystem Aragon Monthly is a community curated digital newspaper about DAOs, governance and the Aragon ecosystem. Created by the community, for the community. Aragon Monthly [https://monthly.aragon.one/] was introduced a while back in

The latest issue of the community curated digital newspaper about DAOs, decentralized governance and the Aragon ecosystem Aragon Monthly is a community curated digital newspaper about DAOs, governance and the Aragon ecosystem. Created by the community, for the community. Aragon Monthly [https://monthly.aragon.org/] was introduced a while back

The latest issue of the community curated digital newspaper about DAOs, decentralized governance and the Aragon ecosystem Aragon Monthly [https://monthly.aragon.org/] was introduced a while back in my post Bringing DAOs back — Aragon Monthly [https://blog.aragon.org/bringing-daos-back-aragon-monthly-92756cb65639] and has since been a monthly aggregated source of

The latest issue of the community curated digital newspaper about DAOs, decentralized governance and the Aragon ecosystem covering September 2018. https://monthly.aragon.org/ You can find all the latest News [https://monthly.aragon.org/news/] regarding DAOs [https://monthly.aragon.org/news/daos/], Aragon [https://monthly.aragon.org/news/

The latest issue of the community curated digital newspaper about DAOs, decentralized governance and the Aragon ecosystem covering October 2018. monthly.aragon.org [https://monthly.aragon.org/] You can find all the latest News [https://monthly.aragon.org/news/] regarding DAOs [https://monthly.aragon.org/news/daos/], Aragon [https://monthly.

The latest issue of the community curated digital newspaper about DAOs, decentralized governance and the Aragon ecosystem covering November 2018. monthly.aragon.org [https://monthly.aragon.org/] You can find all the latest News [https://monthly.aragon.org/news/] regarding DAOs [https://monthly.aragon.org/news/daos/], Aragon [https://monthly.

The latest issue of the community curated digital newspaper about DAOs, decentralized governance and the Aragon ecosystem covering December 2018. monthly.aragon.org [https://monthly.aragon.org/] You can find all the latest News [https://monthly.aragon.org/news/] regarding DAOs [https://monthly.aragon.org/news/daos/], Aragon [https://monthly.

Five teams already funded and building is underway We began by first introducing the Aragon Nest [https://blog.aragon.one/introducing-aragon-nest-1aa8c91c0566] grant program back in December of 2017 together with Placeholder [https://twitter.com/placeholdervc]. Then near the end of January 2018 the program was launched [https://blog.aragon.one/

It’s been a while since we have published an update about what has been happening inside the Nest program! In this post you’ll learn everything you need to know about the current and past Nest grantees. The program initially launched [https://blog.aragon.org/introducing-aragon-nest-1aa8c91c0566/] in late 2017

We are happy to introduce updates from these six amazing teams working on the Aragon and Ethereum ecosystems! As more teams get grants from the Nest program, also the amount of goals achieved increases. We are preparing for this by giving the teams their own voice here in the Aragon

Four new teams have been awarded grants with funding from the Aragon Project Earlier the Nest grants program introduced the five first teams that had been awarded grants [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-nest-first-awarded-grants-29a2f3aa8d4a/] and told what they are working on. On this second update we announce the four new teams

Five new teams have been awarded grants with funding from the Aragon Project. The Nest grants program has introduced rounds one [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-nest-first-awarded-grants-29a2f3aa8d4a/] and two [https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-nest-second-round-of-grants/] with the first teams. We now have five more teams that have been granted funding by the

The Nest program has been up and running for 7 months already. It's mature enough to make a high level analysis of the program so far and talk a bit about its future. Nest is the grants program run by the Aragon Association (formerly the Aragon Foundation). The

Because accountability is key on funding new teams to work on decentralized ecosystems As we have said previously, making Decentralized Autonomous Organizations widespread is an extremely ambitious mission that cannot be accomplished by any single team in the world. We have started to decentralize the development of the project. We