How to deploy and distribute a censorship-resistant upgradeable dApp — From the inception of the first versions of Aragon Core we took building a truly decentralized app very seriously. We decided that just using Ethereum as the settlement layer was not enough, because if a significant part of the infrastructure depended on centralized servers, we would quickly become a central…

Progress of development from the first quarter of 2018 — Releasing Aragon Core v0.5, The Architect, was the biggest development milestone during the first quarter of the year. For some more information on the actual launch, you can check the official announcement: Aragon Core v0.5 — ”The Architect” — release The most powerful Aragon release to dateblog.aragon.one What was released with Aragon Core v0.5

Exactly one year ago today Luis and I showed Aragon to the world for the very first time. In just one year we have: Released two major versions and refactored everything almost 3 times while working in a soon to be released major version. Built a pretty nice smart contract…

Smart contract codebase has been frozen, audit with WHG starts today and announcement for Aragon v0.5 release schedule — The scope of Aragon’s influence has been broadening ever since the team started growing from just myself and Luis to a dozen of brilliant freedom fighters. We’ve had serious conversations, both community-wide and internally, about the direction that Aragon should take. We’ve gone from it being a nice way to…

Progress of development from the last quarter of 2017 — In the last quarter of 2017 we were heads down developing everything for the version 0.5 release of the Aragon Core app. Lots of progress was made, first audit of the smart contracts was conducted with good results and we’re on track to get the testnet release out really soon™. …

This quarter we have been hard at work developing the new v0.5 release. This release paves the way for Aragon to be an extendable governance tool which supports all possible use cases. It has required an immense amount of changes, including a re-architecturing called aragonOS. Why the v0.5 release? With…

Aragon’s new exokernel-inspired architecture — The advent of decentralized organizations will create new forms of human coordination that we cannot even grasp yet. Therefore, our success as a project will come from being able to support many different types of organizations, from a small consulting firm to a decentralized meme market. Decentralized governance is getting…

v0.4 release status and the road ahead — We will be delivering regular updates on the development of Aragon. This is our first quarterly update to bring the community up to speed on where we’re at and the road ahead. As outlined in our Community Governance Model, we’ll also have bi-weekly Dev Meetings. These meetings will consist of…

With Aragon, we set out to create software that makes it easy to create and run decentralized organizations. However, meaningless ETH addresses made sending funds and completing transactions for operating a business unnecessarily complicated. Fortunately, ENS (Ethereum Name Service) recently solved this issue by enabling the assignment of human-readable names…