Aragon merges with Vocdoni to improve governance for DAOs
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....
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The Aragon Association has acquired Vocdoni, a decentralized voting project born out of the Catalan independence movement.
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....
Eleven staffers of Aragon One and one from the Aragon Association have announced their resignations Thursday due to an apparent lack of financial transparency.
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....
DAO: Decentralized. Autonomous. Organization.The whole phrase is a misnomer. Theyre not decentralized, not autonomous and they are not organizations, Monsterplay blockchain consultancy founder David Freuden tells Magazine.Freuden co-authored a 51-page report on DAOs in May 2020 in an attempt to help realize their potential.We need DAOs, he explains. The idea of shareholder first is only a 1980s/1990s concept. Companies became about profits, not products.He foresaw big things for DAOs and much has changed nearly two years later. By the end of 2021, DAOs had more than 1.6 million....