Topic: THE OFFICIAL ARAGON (ANT) CROWDSALE AND PROJECT THREAD (Read 12886 times)

June 2021 Highlights:
- Aragon Govern launches (on Rinkeby)
- Aragon announces multi-chain plans
- New dGov category sponsored on @gitcoin GR10
- New DAO-friendly content
- New transparency resources

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Aragon DAOs are flourishing at an extraordinary rate. Everywhere we look we're inspired to see power flowing back into the hands of communities.

Looking for inspiration to start your DAO? Read on!



As people self-organize into DAOs, we will see the world transformed by a Cambrian explosion of activity that will do for organizations what the internet did for communication

5 years on from TheDAO hack, Solidity has accrued decades of developer time and is used in millions of smart contracts to manage over $100bn in funds. At a protocol level, the sophistication of the space already exceeds traditional finance in the sense that certain operations such as flash loans have no comparable analogue outside of Decentralized Finance (DeFi). DAOs are also superior in application, being customizable to all flavors of governance and voting. Any isomorphism between them is more likely to be driven by normative factors such as proven best practice to attract liquidity and capital, rather than any legal impositions or technological restrictions.

Read more: https://blog.aragon.org/15-ways-the-world-is-being-transformed-by-daos/

We are extremely honored to announce that Ramon Canales (@ramonIsTweeting) has been appointed as Head of Product at the Aragon Association. Welcome to the team, Ramon!

Ramon is an entrepreneur and product professional with over 12 years’ experience in a huge array of industries, from banking to urban mobility, involving both B2B and B2C products. He will be helping to streamline our product offerings at every step of the development process - from discovery & ideation to release - to ensure that everything we produce is in line with our mission and tailored to solve real customer problems in our target markets.

Ramon will be also leading our Decentralized Product Management initiative, where the community will be gradually more involved in the product development process, enabling Aragon's products and solutions to solve more community problems and create value for our users.

https://blog.aragon.org/welcome-ramon-canales-as-head-of-product-at-the-aragon-association/

We are excited to announce that we will be sponsoring @gitcoin's new Decentralized Governance (dGov) category for GR10 & GR11 - two upcoming rounds of the Gitcoin Grants Program, launching on June 16th.

Over $22m in Grants
We believe that building decentralized governance infrastructure as public goods is the best way to turn the crypto renaissance into a well-organized movement that can bring capital and financial sovereignty back into the hands of individuals. Gitcoin shares this vision and has built a thriving ecosystem of developers and contributors all collaborating to build the decentralized web. Since 2018 they have distributed $22.8m to over 1600 Web3 projects and saw 300% growth in Q1 this year versus the previous quarter. GR10 will kick-off with an even bigger matching pool, making this another record-breaking boost to the industry.

50,000 DAI of Matching Funds
Developer time is a compounding force that benefits everyone in the space, so to hasten our shared vision, the Aragon Association will be donating 50,000 DAI to the matching pool, split equally between the next two rounds. All Grants will have funding matched quadratically from a portion of the total pool. Quadratic Funding is the optimal way to fund public goods in a democratic community. It works like a crowdfunding campaign that matches contributions from individuals with a pool from bigger donors. The higher the number of individual donors, the more matched funds a project gets. For example, with a $100 matching pool, if Project 1 receives a total of $100 from 1 funder, and Project 2 receives a total of $100 from 10 funders, Project 1 will receive $9 in matching and Project 2 will get $90. This helps to identify the depth of support for applications and reward them accordingly.

Gitcoin's New dGov Category
With a mission to decentralize governance, the Aragon Association is committed to helping people all over the world overcome geographical and political restrictions to economic and social collaboration. Gitcoin’s new dGov category is designed to accelerate progress in this direction and provides a great opportunity for us to invest in our community, while also strengthening the broader Ethereum ecosystem. Stronger dGov solutions will make it easier for talented individuals in any location to pool their resources in a trustless and transparent way, without fear of censorship or fraud. As capital becomes borderless, it can be deployed far more efficiently to solve real-world problems and create wealth.

Last summer, Aragon hosted a ‘Hack for Freedom’ on Gitcoin and we have a proud history of supporting decentralized governance through our Aragon Nest Program. In 2018 we donated $88,000 in ETH to fund BrightID’s pseudonymous identity solution. We also granted $188,000 to Frame - an OS-level Ethereum interface to the decentralized web and $250,000 to Level-K for Aragon’s futarchy app.

Governance is a vast subject but we would welcome applications for any relevant area of innovation. This may include Ethereum infrastructure (especially layer-2), governance methods (e.g. futarchy), components and applications for voting, identity, treasury management, goal-setting / performance management, and communication.

How to Apply
GR10 is open to anyone with a vision to help build a decentralized future. Head over to https://gitcoin.co/grants to learn from online workshops, open new grants, and, if you can, help fund great projects that are contributing to the public goods ecosystem

It is a big event for not only Aragon , but also for Aragon community.
It will be better if the team can carefully compose and publish reports of the event.

Between our participation in community events, releasing Aragon on the Ethereum mainnet, and preparing for #AraCon2019, the last quarter was an exciting time for the Aragon project.

See how we managed our resources in our Q4 2018 Transparency Report:
https://t.co/40FwndjIXA https://t.co/IEtId8ECGq

Dear Aragon community. We are pleased to inform you about our project http://arachats.top/ which logs all important telegram chats related to Aragon. We believe that Aragon Chats will be a valuable addition to the Aragon ecosystem. During the work of the site, we have already received a large number of positive feedback from community members. The project is under active development. The project has its own team of programmers, ready at any time to solve new technical problems and make new improvements.

What is implemented at the moment:
You can read your favorite sites in a convenient form for you through http://arachats.top/
The site is optimized for work and on mobile devices. There is a search by keyword and date. It is possible to read the chat you want in your native language using Google Translate. The translation is not perfect, but it will allow you to receive the latest news as quickly as possible from the first sources.

In the near future, we plan to add the ability to share a specific telegram post in social networks. On the one hand, this will allow you to share interesting content with your friends and subscribers, and on the other hand, it will positively influence the development of Aragon ’s popularity in general.

There is a lot of work ahead, we have planned a huge number of interesting and useful improvements. If you have any suggestions for improving our site, please write - we will try to take everything into account and use it in the further development of the site.

If you think that some important chat related to Aragon is missing on our website, please write and we will add it.

Get your ANT ready to vote!

AGP Vote #1 starts in less than 24 hours, at 00:00 UTC on January 24th.

Here are the final details and instructions for how to participate in this historic vote: https://blog.aragon.org/agp-vote-1/

The Aragon Association AGP review for Vote #1 has officially concluded!

Now is the final community review before the vote starts on January 24th at 00:00 UTC.

See the results of the Aragon Association AGP review here: https://forum.aragon.org/t/agp-vote-1-megathread/443

ANT is now available to trade with zero maker fees on @Ethfinex! Head to https://t.co/b8QI4s4rtv to take full advantage. #DEX

Ticket sale for #AraCon2019, the first Aragon Conference ends in two weeks, January 21st, or as soon as tickets are sold out!

Register now at https://AraCon.one/registration

We have a limited edition Aragon NFT now available for purchase!

All proceeds go to Venezuelans in need via @crypto_xmas and each NFT owner is eligible for a free ticket to #AraCon2019 ☃️

Full details here:
https://t.co/wPpK6J7P86 https://t.co/Ri7mpYd53U

Only a month to go until AraCon2019! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49hXxj31e7c&feature=youtu.be

We couldn't be more proud of our Nest eaglet @DAppNode. Constantly shipping and making the decentralized web happen for real.

The cloud is just someone else's computer, DappNode allows everyone to actually own and easily manage their 'personal cloud'.

Aragon Monthly Issue 10 is out!

The latest issue of the community curated digital newspaper about #DAOs, decentralized governance and the Aragon ecosystem.

https://t.co/iG80aXkdbF

Aragon: The Potential Game Changer for Blockchain Adoption

https://blockpublisher.com/aragon-the-potential-game-changer-for-blockchain-adoption/

We are happy to introduce updates from these six amazing teams working on the Aragon and #Ethereum ecosystems!

We are giving the Nest teams a voice of their own here in the Aragon Project blog.

https://t.co/AE2NWAzCqB

#AraCon2019 welcomes people from all backgrounds to join us at the flagship event of the Aragon Project.

If you are not a member of the Aragon community yet, we are excited to meet you soon.

There will be room for the first 500 attendees, register now!

https://t.co/89wjKfLsdK https://t.co/oMRNjVUyaS

The AGP-1 vote for all Aragon Network Token holders begins Nov 15th. In this vote, ANT holders will vote on the new governance proposal process for Aragon.

Read the final details about the vote as well as voting instructions here in this blog post.

https://blog.aragon.org/final-details-about-the-ant-vote-on-agp-1/

There are plenty of tools to depict organizational and reporting structures, to plan workforce requirements and personnel costs etc.