For many reasons—from saving gas costs by bundling votes to token holders not having time to maintain the context to thoughtfully vote on proposals—delegation has emerged as the primary mechanism for DAOs to boost governance participation and make decisions more effectively.  DAOs like Uniswap, Arbitrum, Optimism, and ENS are all delegate voting DAOs, meaning token holders can delegate their voting power to an individual or group to vote for them. It’s essentially representative governance with optionality to choose your representative or exercise direct democracy if you want to cast vot ..read more

Launch a DAO on Arbitrum and build in a thriving ecosystem of protocols, assets and applications. Arbitrum is a Layer 2 rollup scaling Ethereum. With over $7 billion total value locked and 55% of the L2 market share, Arbitrum is the industry’s most popular L2 solution. Arbitrum’s battle-tested, market-leading technology makes Ethereum more accessible with lower gas costs and faster transactions. Its security is inherited from Ethereum, and is a time-tested solution for your DAO and its assets. Deploy your DAO on Arbitrum using the modular DAO framework, Aragon OSx, or the no-code Aragon App t ..read more

Introducing Optimistic Dual Governance, an efficient governance design using plugins on Aragon OSx. This governance design enables DAOs to create two different stakeholder groups with different governance permissions, and then execute proposals optimistically. The plugins will undergo audits, but you can check out the progress of the first implementation here.  In a nutshell, Optimistic Dual Governance enables teams to work efficiently while allowing key stakeholders to veto proposals.  While any type of stakeholder group can be defined to meet your organization’s needs, this dual g ..read more

We’re excited to announce Aragon OSx CLI, a tool that makes it easy to build, deploy, and publish plugins on Aragon OSx.  The CLI abstracts away the complexity of deploying and publishing a plugin, as well as providing better error handling so you can debug and solve problems faster. Let’s dive into how Aragon OSx CLI makes development fast and easy, so you can focus on building custom functionality for your DAO! “The CLI enables you to build faster and safer, and not have to work with the protocol in its raw state.” — Aaron, Developer Experience Engineer What's a plugin? Plugins are s ..read more

Multichain governance has arrived on Aragon OSx! The new plugin leverages the LayerZero protocol for cross-chain messaging and the zkSync Era rollup for low-cost and secure voting. The code is still undergoing audits but you can already explore it here.  This plugin enables DAOs to govern assets and permissions across EVM chains from one mainnet DAO smart contract. This is a major step forward for the governance of protocols deployed across chains.  Here’s how governance in multichain DAOs will work from proposal to execution:   Create a custom census with tokens across c ..read more

Delegate voting is live on the Aragon App! You can now delegate your voting power to another address to vote on your behalf. When you want to claim your voting power, you can do so at any time within the App. This is available for any token-based DAO.  Delegate voting, a form of liquid democracy, is when you delegate your voting power to someone else to vote on your behalf.  Delegate voting is a common governance choice for DAOs. It’s challenging to maintain context on all decisions happening in the organization, so it’s helpful to delegate to someone who is able to keep up with pro ..read more

We have an important update for all stakeholders of the Aragon Project.  The Aragon Association (AA), the legal steward of the Aragon treasury, assets, and mission, has passed the following resolution: Deploy most of the treasury to allow all ANT holders to redeem their ANT for ETH; Dissolve the AA;  Continue the mission in a product-focused structure.  Token holders can redeem their ANT for ETH at a fixed rate of 0.0025376 ETH / ANT. The AA is deploying 86,343 ETH to a redemption contract for this purpose on Ethereum mainnet. Token holders can participate in the redemption h ..read more

“In a world of composability, where anybody can build on top of you, your app is a protocol, and your protocol is an app,” said David Phelps, cofounder of jokerace, a governance contest platform for communities, in a recent X space hosted by Aragon. “We're just very locked in these terms of app versus protocol, because that's an old mental model that doesn't really hold up in a world of composability.” That’s the power of jokerace: composability. While jokerace might on the surface look like a different user interface for onchain governance, the power of jokerace is not only in the actions yo ..read more

This year we launched the Aragon App, an easy-to-use homebase for anyone to launch and participate in a DAO. The no-code App makes it fast and simple to launch a DAO, and over 2,000 DAOs have been created since our launch in March! Now, we’re working on adding more governance models, plug-and-play onchain actions, and smoother ecosystem integrations to take the App to the next level. But we want to hear from you! Tell us what DAOs need in this jokerace run on Base. We’re busy shipping new updates and working on features, so we need your help to prioritize what we move to the top of our Jira b ..read more

Aragon ZK Research and Aztec joined forces to research private voting for Nouns DAO over the last few months. They just concluded their research with a proof-of-concept and both general and technical reports. They also developed two time-locked cryptography protocols to support their work. The Nouns DAO Private Voting Research Sprint was funded by Nouns DAO, a social and cultural DAO known to push the edges of governance experimentation, to research solutions for private voting for their organization. Three teams were funded, including one team composed of Aragon ZK Research and Aztec. They h ..read more