After three years, I’m announcing my departure as Managing Director of the Interchain Foundation
@interchain_io
. It's been a great journey, and I’m proud of the slow but steady progress. True transformation doesn’t happen overnight.
When I became Managing Director in late 2022,
1/As most of you know by now, I have also resigned from my post at Aragon One. Some events and changes in the last couple of months have made it impossible to continue working for the project. As a result, most of the core team has left Aragon.
This video perfectly explains the WHY of the
@AragonProject
. WHY it's important. WHY we are devoted to make it work. The purpose. The cause. The belief. 🌎🦅
New proposal to constitute the Neutron Grants Committee as a BORG. I worked a bit on this with the prospective committee members--this would likely end up being the first "Grants BORG" in the Cosmos ecosystem.
1/ The interesting part about this grants program is how the community will allocate the resources of the DAO treasury. People will use the conviction voting app. A continuous decision-making mechanism that empowers long-standing/consistent preferences (votes) of token holders
We're thrilled to introduce a new community grants experiment over a year in the making 🗳⏱
ANT holders will allocate $50k to community proposals through the new Conviction voting app from
@1HiveOrg
💸
Learn how to vote and apply for grants 👇
I was one of the grants managers for Nest. I ran Nest for half the existence of the program. We didn't do everything perfectly and some things didn't work. But, we learned a lot in the process, often out in the open.
DAOs can now interact with other protocols and participate in other DAOs. The interaction between DAOs is the most exciting part to me. We see this in traditional organizations. This opens up the door for many interesting use cases as Luke mentions here👇:
👀 A demo of the upcoming Frame 0.2 release which include Aragon Agent integration.
This will enable you to propose arbitrary actions for a DAO to perform directly from frame and use any web3 authenticated DApp on behalf of an organization.
The Interchain Stack Roundtable begins!
#Interchain
stewards are diving into the newly released living Roadmap!
The Interchain Stack roadmap is the first comprehensive roadmap outlining the future of CometBFT, Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, and IBC.
LOL, this is all trending toward a slightly modified form of traditional corporate governance (call it a "council" instead of a "board of directors").
Next up, people will realize it's bad to have anonymous vote whales, and want something like The Williams Act.
wow, It’s great to see these much-needed gov tools finally coming out.
An oracle-based solution to enable on-chain execution of off-chain votes.
And the community can choose the level of decentralization they are comfortable to start with.
Congrats to the Gnosis team!
The functionality we are going to have in Aragon this year is mind-blowing 🤯 If you are thinking of using Aragon for your project, org or community but don't know how or where to start, hit me up!
This week was all about tables¡ I’ve worked with
@bpierre
&
@owisixseven
on our new DataView component – a table with ⚡️ superpowers 💪 that can adapt to many use cases : )
Sneak peak of what’s coming with
@AragonProject
0.8 👀
It's becoming clear that the best gov approach is a hybrid between off-chain and on-chain gov processes and mechanisms, with a limited (but key) role for the on-chain part.
But off-chain gov doesn't get the attention it deserves. Other Internet is changing this!
Our thesis at Other Internet is that off-chain processes will increasingly be the focus of governance design.
Social spaces, informal processes, and user interfaces are forms of governance!
Presenting our first off-chain gov report, on Uniswap's Discord
The social governance layer is KEY even in ecosystems with protocols with governance minimization. The time to move the needle on how governance works in these ecosystems has come!
This is great news for Uniswap and the crypto community
So proud of the
@otherinternet__
squad❤️
Other Internet is an applied research organization
We study and build social technology
Our aim is to create alignment between technology, values, and culture
Walk with us
2/I joined the project bc I believed in its mission: building tools to decentralize power and enable a more open, fair and inclusive world. However, the current situation within the Aragon Association no longer reflects my values nor the values of the Aragon manifesto.
Keep an eye on the Aragon Network DAO. It uses Aragon Court. Think of it as a decentralized moderation tool that DAOs can use to solve disagreements between community members. This service for DAOs protects minorities & serves as a check and balance of powers in a DAO community
How do you protect minorities in a token-governed DAO?
Explore this question with us in an Aragon community town hall tomorrow, August 27, 5pm UTC, to discuss the current draft of the Aragon Network Agreement.
Join the town hall at
Or comments that we didn't pay people for their work despite completing their milestones. So here's a reflection on some of the metrics from the lifetime of the program along with the experiences of Nest recipients:
Traditional contracts, property deeds, wills, etc. are private law, "drafted by private persons rather than politicians or government bureaucrats." Smart contracts are a new form of such decentralized rulemaking.
4/To my teammates. It was such an honor to work with you. Your skills and, most of all, your integrity, humility, and commitment to the mission of the project, and the crypto ethos, has no comparison. The crypto projects out there are going to be so lucky to have you.
Creating and managing transnational, censorship-resistant and trust-minimized organizations is getting easier and easier. Impressed with Aragon 0.7 Bella and the work done by the product team at
@AragonOneTeam
!
Continuation on our process to decentralize Aragon’s development, this time we're exploring our goal of a Minimum Viable Foundation. The Aragon Foundation will be maintained but its power over the project will gradually be reduced.
#Ethereum
#DAOs
"every line of code we write is purely intentional. Each and every line is a political statement towards our shared vision of a more fair and free world" Actively pushing towards a better future with a clear political stand❤️🌎🦅
This is so exciting to see! Honey, a community currency with an interesting economic (and coordination) protocol. "Automation at the center, humans at the edges"
We have some news! We recently migrated our community currency, Honey, from Ethereum to the xDAI network and introduced a new economic protocol which regulates its issuance and distribution.
Read more:
1/ This month marks a pivotal transition point in the history of the
@cosmos
project. I offer my reflection – on how we got here, where we are going, and what it’s all for:
3/To the Aragon community. Thank you very much! Your support and eagerness to experiment with DAOs always kept us pushing forward. Decentralization of governance is not easy, but it is worth it and necessary.
It's upsetting to see comments about Nest with no basis. Like suggestions that we were just throwing money away to projects that weren't delivering. Nest grantees consistently worked very hard and earned their way. They should be recognized for that. 💕
Crypto is building a world outside the nation-state. But who belongs in this new global "public?"
Our new essay is about building open worlds, about protocols that enact values over profits, and about changing this game
🆕✨🌍 by me,
@hxrts
, &
@lottiland
Check out the progress of the Nest teams 🔥: The milestones they have reached, the challenges they have faced and the things they will be working on during the next months!
It's time to hear from the astonishing Aragon Nest teams and their updates!
That Planning Suite &
@ryhopenetwork
on incentivization apps,
@mattgcondon
on an optimistic UI,
@frame_eth
, OS-level signing provider &
@prylabs
on
#Ethereum
2.0 sharding client
Aragon is not a team nor a company. It's an open source and community driven project.Only one team can't
#buidl
everything that Aragon, or Ethereum, needs. Nest is a way to scale and decentralize the dev of the project. Excited to welcome the first grantees❤️ These teams are🔥
"The Aragon Package Manager is a DAO itself and it enables trustless, verifiable and governed deployments of critical open source software in a censorship resistant way." The power of the APM!
Aragon One llega a LatAm!
Ven y únete a
@licuende
,
@izqui9
,
@MyPaoG
y
@monicazng
en los siguientes eventos:
🇦🇷 Dec 2, Buenos Aires:
🇺🇾 Dec 4, Montevideo:
🇨🇴 Dec 5, Bogotá:
Te esperamos!
DAOs aren’t the future — they are already the present!
Following the
#PoweredByAragon
campaign, we will be showcasing DAOs that are already live.
Today, we unveil the first case study featuring
@BrightIDProject
☀️
3/The longer people keep their preferences (votes) for a proposal, the stronger their conviction gets. Community members with long-standing/consistent preferences will have more influence than members with large amounts of tokens but short-term/inconsistent preferences.
I'm a bit late to this news but reading the proposed Wyoming bill:
"DAO means a limited liability company organized under this chapter"
Oh boy, we have come full circle...
🛠️ Quick PoC of a limited liability digital association (LLC-DAO) & e(ther)-commerce, built between
@AragonProject
and
@OpenLawOfficial
. 🙌 Many thanks to the awesome devs that make these hypos possible 🚀
'E-Commerce with Legal and Blockchain Security':
Two recent crypto-activist plots, one fund and the other grassroots:
- Arca agitating to distribute the Gnosis treasury (~$75M) to $GNO (currently at ~0.5X "NAV")
- Large $CRV holders protesting yearn's yETH strategies as parasitic
Expect protocol politics to continue growing.
We’re proud to introduce the Decentraland DAO – allowing you to have a direct impact on the plans and decisions that affect the future of Decentraland.
Ugh. Uniswap governance is not a "single company". It is a smart contract with near-negligible admin privileges and opt-in upgradeability. If you think a 6-of-9 multisig vote is comparable or superior (?!) you're either dumb or malicious. Bad, bad take.
The Aragon Developer Portal is ready for prime time!
Featuring our new command line tool for building Aragon apps, a straightforward tutorial, and reference documentation for all the building blocks.
Come
#buidl
the decentralized future with us!
1/ Spent the last week at the
@AragonProject
offsite in Spain as an advisor to the team since Day 1. Wanted to share a few thoughts that impressed me most:
@AmirPolyteknik
Whenever I hear someone say that Bitcoin is changing the life of people in poor countries... Then I can easily tell those people have never been in a poor country
2/ People have to express their preferences (votes) for the relevant proposals continuously, by staking tokens to support proposals. Participants do not cast their preferences(votes) on a specific time frame. Not everybody has to vote on every proposal.
Good morning, Taipei! 🇹🇼
Today @ :
- 4.25pm:
@licuende
on Aragon Fundraising at the main stage
- 5.30pm: Aragon Chain afterparty at 30 Thirty Cafe
@AragonOneTeam
members will be around the conference all day today and tomorrow. DM
@MyPaoG
to meet!
The survey app is a great tool to aggregate clear, representative & relevant signals from diverse stakeholders of a community that can impact & improve decisions, read here: . btw, Luke's idea of signaling DAOs to coordinate creation of such signals is 💥
🤯Digital land sales spiked on
@decentraland
launch with almost $200k traded in the past week!
Virtual mortgages are already being offered
@RocketNFT
and there's talk of using flash loans to profit from virtual real estate.
And, my avatar is the cutest💁♀️
📢CALL TO PARTICIPATION📢Excited that on-chain futarchy decisions (reaching decisions via prediction markets) are one step closer to becoming a reality. Help us test out our
@AragonProject
Futarchy App! Stay tuned for tutorials, etc
"Aragon Agreements leverage Aragon Court to allow Aragon organizations to benefit from the richness of subjective terms and conditions that can either not be expressed in smart contracts or when doing so would result in a complicated and slow-moving organization."
@izqui9
just dropped a 🔥 piece introducing Aragon Agreements.
An absolute must read about how Aragon Court will transform Aragon organizations, DAOs, et al.
Ultimate thread of all things design at Devcon Bogota :) Stoked to be back supporting this track. Thank you to all the
@EFDevcon
organizers & production crew who are putting this all together! 🙏🏻
Starting with...
Design Community Hub!
The contrarian view: we don't need more STEM grads in law school, we need grads trained in the foundations of all civilizations. They can do the heavy lifting of governance design in a complex AI and human society. cc:
@Andrew_Perlman
@RichardMoorhead
Today our Team Interview is with
@alexa_rwr
, Aragon’s new Operations Assistant— we discussed what brought her to work in the blockchain space,
#Ethereum
and why did she choose to work on Aragon