Aragon Acquires Voting Project Vocdoni to Flesh Out Decentralized Governance ...

The Aragon decentralized autonomous organization is merging with a blockchain voting protocol. Aragon, a platform specializing in managing decentralized autonomous organizations, announced a merger with the Vocdoni protocol, a blockchain voting and governance solution provider.Unlike the Yearn.finance mergers, this acquisition has a much more traditional nature. Aragon has acquired Dvote Labs OU, the company behind the Vocdoni protocol. Its 11 team members will be hired into a new company controlled by Aragon and Vocdoni members.The teams will work on building an integrated solution to....

The decentralized governance protocol has seen 13 resignations among related staff over the course of the last week. It’s been a rough week for the Aragon governance platform where philosophical differences have brought about a long list of resignations.Aragon co-founder Jorge Izquierdo announced on Jan. 11 he would no longer be working as CEO of the for-profit Aragon One, a company dedicated to building tools and services related to Aragon. Aragon is an Ethereum-based platform involved with decentralized governance. The announcement took place just hours after news broke that Aragon had....

Aragon, a administrative platform for decentralized organizations built on ethereum, has released a new alpha client for testing. Unveiled in February, Aragon aims to provide a means for establishing governance mechanisms for decentralized autonomous corporations, or DACs, with support for voting, budgeting and the creation of bylaws, among other features. In recent weeks, the team behind the project has been quietly bug-testing an early version of the platform with members of the ethereum community, setting the stage for today's publication. Project lead Luis Cuende, who co-founded....

Eleven staffers of Aragon One and one from the Aragon Association have announced their resignations Thursday due to an apparent lack of financial transparency.

Decentralized autonomous organizations have too many attack vectors that affect important projects. That needs to change for them to become practical governance models. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have been heralded as the future of governance, unlocking a more egalitarian approach to decision-making. However, decentralizing leadership isn’t a magical solution that instantly leads to better results. To truly get the most out of a decentralized organization, steps must be taken to regulate weighted voting and tokenomics. If not carefully balanced, DAOs can implode — and....