Product Digest #003: Private Voting, Fine-Grained Permissions, and Smoother Flows
The past month focused on further unlocking the true power of OSx for onchain organizations, with new updates across governance design, proposal creation, and UI features making it easier than ever to build exactly what your org needs.
From private, encrypted voting to modular permissions and streamlined proposal creation, the past month was about deepening the flexibility and usability of the Aragon stack. Here's everything new and next.
New Features: Private Voting and Permissions-Based Access Control
Governance that’s private. Access that’s programmable.
Two major governance advancements landed in the past month: support for private voting via MACI and permissions-based access control in the Aragon App. Together, they unlock new levels of modularity, intention, and legitimacy for organizations building onchain.
Support for private voting via MACI
Privacy isn’t just a feature, it’s fundamental to legitimacy. This month, we launched support for bespoke implementations of private voting using MACI (Minimum Anti-Collusion Infrastructure), a zero-knowledge protocol that enables encrypted, tamper-resistant voting.
This is a custom integration for teams building with Aragon. To explore how it could work for your organization, reach out to us.
Permissions-based access control
Built on the foundation of Aragon OSx’s modular permission system, this new feature brings granular control over what each governance process can do—right into the Aragon App.
You can now assign precise, function-level permissions with just a few clicks, allowing your org to separate powers and reduce offchain coordination overhead.
Whether you're limiting treasury access to a multisig or giving scoped powers to token holders, the Permissions panel gives you:
- A clear view of roles and what they control
- Click-to-assign permissions by function and contract
- Safer, more modular governance across your stack
Permissions-based access control is available in the Aragon App today, but to learn more about its use cases and the extent of its functionality, reach out to the team.
The Aragon App: What’s New?
Refinements across the proposal flow, UI, and data access make our latest release one of our most usability-focused yet.
A number of enhancements were shipped to streamline how projects interact with proposals and governance processes, and to tighten up the app’s overall interface:
- Governance visibility: A new Process Details page shows the custom governance and permissions of each governance process, which determines which actions it's authorized to perform.
- Simplified action creation: The Action Builder interface has been streamlined into a single "smart bar". With the new Permission-Based Access Control, it will by default only shows actions that the process is authorized to execute, reducing proposals from being created that won't execute.
- Deep linking support: URL parameters are now supported across the app, allowing users to link directly into specific tabs like a locker, wrapper, or delegation panel.
Together, these improvements bring more clarity, efficiency, and confidence to the day-to-day of running an onchain organization.
On the Radar: What’s Next?
A new plugin is on the way that will make treasury operations far more flexible and programmable, with capital distribution functionality that allows orgs to easily transfer funds for a wide range of use cases like airdrops, rewards, or recurring payments.
UI support for the plugin is already live in the Aragon app. Once the plugin is available on OSx, projects with it installed and in use will be able to access it natively in their project’s dashboard.
Wrapping Up
Over the past month, we focused on giving orgs more control, clarity, and legitimacy, from private, zk-verified voting to fine-grained permissions and smoother proposal creation. Every update brings us closer to a stack that enables projects to effectively run their organization — from governance to capital management — onchain easily and securely.
If you’re building your project onchain, we’re building the tools to get you there.