Aragon: Introduction of personal DAOs, Aragon Core as an operating system, work on modular TCR implementation
Biweekly update 28th August — 11th September
Development
Dashboard to track the development activity around Aragon by Luis Cuende.
Aragon Labs Research Update #1: Latest news from the Aragon Research & Development department, Labs.
Token Curated Registries as Governance Process Experiments:
- As an proving ground for governance processes
- As a critical part of the Aragon Network
- As an early DAO compatible business model
Speaking of delegate voting:
- Liquid Democracy
- ERC900 and Staking Key Standardization
- Council Voting
Enter the world of personal DAOs: Introducing personal DAOs.
A personal DAO is your own Aragon DAO that acts as your agent in the decentralized world. A personal DAO borrows all the features you can expect from an Aragon DAO, but it isn’t an organization comprised of multiple people. Aragon DAOs enable:
- A cohesive identity using the Ethereum Name Service.
- A way to install more apps that enhance the feature set.
- A rich permission system in which you can link those apps between them.
A Blockchain Perspective on Three Product #BUIDL’ing Motivations:
- The New Exciting Thing
- Talking to Product Users or Potential Users
- Finishing the Difficult Finish
Building a decentralized OS: How we built an Ethereum operating system that is upgradeable, secure and easy to use.
Thoughts on Liberal Radicalism by Luke Duncan.
Espresso Team Update: Halfway Through Our First Milestone: First team update by the @EspressoOrg working on a Datastore + Aragon Drive App.
Development update
(from Aragon Chat, 28th August — 11th September):
@luis (Luis Cuende, CEO at Aragon One):
- Tested permissions and did a walk-through
- Multiple Foundation matters
- Hiring: onboarded Adri (designer of the original Aragon branding) as contractor
- Hiring: Progress with multiple candidates
- Created dashboard to measure development pulse
- Mini-hackathon with @jorge to improve docs and the dev portal https://hack.aragon.org
- ETHBerlin prep!
- Worked on legal matters
- Review multiple blog posts and governance content
@tatu (Tatu Kärki, Communications at Aragon One):
- Spent quite a bit of time on some blog content strategy planning
- Reviewed, minor editing & published https://blog.aragon.one/enter-the-world-of-personal-daos/
- Reviewed, minor editing & published https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-labs-research-update-1/
- Worked on event related things
- Put together and published the Aragon challenges/bounties for ETHBerlin in GitHub and Gitcoin, https://github.com/ethberlin-hackathon/ETHBerlin-Bounties/issues/9 & https://github.com/ethberlin-hackathon/ETHBerlin-Bounties/issues/8
- Blogs: Reviewed, edited & published blog posts http://blog.aragon.one/a-blockchain-perspective-on-three-product-buidling-motivations/ & https://blog.aragon.org/building-a-decentralized-os/ by @chris-remus & @luis, wrote, prepared and published https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-at-ethberlin/ and wrote, edited & published https://blog.aragon.org/nest-team-interviews-that-planning-suite/ with help from @maria (and of course the fabulous TPS team)
- Whole bunch of more stuff for ETHBerlin, helping them set up Survey app for the judging of 4 bounties, getting info to our team members from the organizers, making sure our sponsorship payment was received etc.
@chris-remus (Chris Remus, Product Manager):
- Have product team 1on1 conversations
- Work to finalize product team q3 goals
- Track sprint 1.1, permissions, finance and audit
- Coordinate sprint design task logging
- Support devops hiring process
- Continue refining sprint tracking progress
- Follow-up with potential users on specific use case details
- Rebaseline and plan audit completion
- Prepare for and lead weekly product discussion
- Update mainnet roadmap
- Track, follow-up on and troubleshoot current sprint
- Prepare for and have product and design calls
- Baseline audit and determine next steps
- Begin planning post-mainnet roadmap
- Finalize blog post for publication
@bingen (Bingen Eguzkitza, Solidity Engineer):
- Catch-up after vacation
- Review some aragonOS PRs
- Help to upgrade aragon-apps to aragonOS 4
- Some Nest reviews ans meetings
- Review aragonOS PRs for audits
- Help updating aragon-apps to aragonOS 4
- Nest reviews
- ETHBerlin
@jorge (Jorge Izquierdo, CTO at Aragon One):
- Naive Liquid Democracy implementation fully working and gas cost analysis
- Prep work for ETHBerlin: aragon-cli and docs
- Code reviews for aragonOS and apps for the final audits freeze
- Released aragon-cli 4.2.0 (exciting new features https://github.com/aragon/aragon-cli/releases/tag/v4.2.0 shoutout to @jvluso, @deam and @PascalPrecht for amazing contributions) and v5.0.0 with aragonOS 4 (still a RC, releasing final version tonight)
- New using the CLI guide (https://hack.aragon.org/docs/cli-usage.html) and some things to consider when building Aragon app smart contracts (https://hack.aragon.org/docs/aragonos-building.html)
@sohkai (Brett Sun, Lead Developer at Aragon One):
- Released initial pre-release versions of aragonOS 4 🎉, and working with @bingen on migrating aragon-apps to aragonOS 4
- Help @bpierre with Permissions
- Started work for mainnet UI changes and fixes to Finance app
- ETHBerlin!
- Audit update: we’ve released aragonOS@4.0.0-beta.1, which is our first candidate for the next iteration of audits
- Permissions update: we’ve released our full permissions app to internal staging, and if testing goes well, it’ll be released soon!
@light (John Light, Community at Aragon One):
- Aragon Foundation -> Aragon One transition tasks
- Merch logistics for ETHBerlin
- 1-on-1 chats with community members re: Nest, Aragon governance, Aragon Monthly, Aragon Network
- Miscellaneous community tasks (nips and tucks around the wiki, github, chat, social, etc)
- Routine updates and tasks
- Prep for Freecoast Festival next week
- Community recruiting
- Prep for upcoming travel and events
- Responded to issues on GitHub
- Worked on AGP-0 and Aragon One transition plan
- Recurring community tasks
@maria (Maria Gomez, Strategy & Operations):
- Supported with some Aragon Foundation — Aragon One division matters
- Supported on some AragonDAC-Aragon One coordination matters
- Nest: reviewed proposals, applications and talked to potential applicants to the Nest program. Started the onboarding process of the newest Nest team that will work on start bridging the gap between the blockchain world and the physical world ♥🦅
- Other tasks related to ecosystem development
- nest: reviewed and commented proposals and applications, continued working on the onboarding process of the new team, helped with the first post on team’s interview, assisted some Nest eaglets
- Teams: helped/supported with some coordination matters to the AragonDAC team
- Other tasks related to ecosystem development
@lkngtn (Luke Duncan, Research at Aragon One):
- Reviewed several of the recent Nest applications.
- Worked on diagraming mechanism described in the whitepaper
- Setup gitbook for the network whitepaper repo, but was unhappy with the pdf export functionality. Decided to use pandoc instead.
- Reviewed Glen Weyl and Vitaliks proposal for a mechanism to provision public goods. Wrote up a summary of my thoughts on the mechanism on medium.
- Reviewed and commented on proposals from Nest and @light’s work on AGP-0
- Engaged with Incentivai on a proposal to simulate/model the proposed court mechanism.
@alexa (Alexa Weaver, Operations Assistant):
- Catch-Up from 2 days off
- Payments and Payroll
- Helping with Banking/Legal
- Planning for Offsite #4 and Upcoming events
@bpierre (Pierre Bertet, UI & Interaction Developer):
- ETHBerlin 🇩🇪
- Permissions: finish implementing everything + polishing => PR merged
- Aragon UI: release 0.18 with an experimental version of NavigationBar (used in permissions) https://github.com/aragon/aragon-ui/pull/194
Social encounters
Nest Team Interviews: That Planning Suite: Aragon Nest Team Interviews is That Planning Suite who are working on an open source incentivization app.
August 29th 2018: Livestream for developers with ChainShot reviewing their Aragon Voting Tutorial.
Research.aragon.org — On Aragon naming by @luis (Luis Cuende, CEO at Aragon One): “Aragon naming can be confusing. Aragon was the original name for the dapp, and now Aragon means the project in general. We need to clarify naming and keep it consistent, since we do have a lot of components, and it can make people unclear about their relationship”.
September 7th — September 9th, 2018: John Light — @lightcoin — at The Fifth Annual Freecoast Festival in New Hampshire to learn about how Aragon is empowering voluntary communities.
Interview with John Light — Community Manager at Aragon Project.
Aragon at ETHBerlin:
Day 1
Mitte 12:45 Aragon One CTO Jorge Izquierdo discussing On-Chain Governance with Aron Fischer from Colony.
16:20 Luis Cuende, CEO of Aragon One presentation on True Decentralization
Görlitzer
20:30 Playing Cat and Mouse with the EVM by Aragon One Lead Developer Brett Sun
Day 2
Görlitzer
10:00 Build Your First Aragon App workshop with Jorge Izquierdo & Brett Sun
Day 3
Görlitzer
13:00 Bounties — Grant programs office hours workshop about the different grants programs in the space. This isn’t run by us, but we’ll be there if you want to come learn more about our grants program, Aragon Nest.
Luke Duncan — research lead from the Aragon Project is the fourth adviser for the First Conference on Distributed Governance (Athenes, 7th — 9th of December 2018) alongside with Vlad Zamfir, Andy Tudhope from Status and Lane Rettig from the EIP0 initiative.
Aragon Could Be the Future of Business Administration on newconomy.media.
Finance
Reddit discussion — Current ETH price and Aragon.
Roadmap
The Architect Release
Alpha: April 2018
Bug bounty (mainnet): From May 2017 to July 2018
Beta (mainnet): August 2018
Partnerships and team members
No updates.
Rumors
A Twitter thread on Personal DAOs and sovereignty.
alex van de sande — @avsa: Biggest use case for Ethereum? Hopefully Incentivized decentralized communities (DAOs, on-chain companies, tokenized social media, futarquies, etc.)
August 31st: Luis Iván Cuende — @licuende: “672 amazing humans who are contributing to a Cambrian explosion of new ways of organization. 672 **this week**. The future looks great #BUIDL”.
Justin Kilpatrick — @ttk314: “Just merged today, the start of our local-network DAO features. Powered by @AragonProject Right now members are stored and queried. Looking to deploy the membership payment contract soon. Here’s the addresses and such on the Rinkeby testnet.”
Reddit — Implementing Aragon on Tezos.
Social media activity
Twitter — average number of retweets is 10–15 for one post.
The number of Reddit threads’ comments are: 1–15.
Aragon chat — active discussions on development and development help.
Aragon research — Popular topics:
