Aragon project updates: September 2020

Optimistic Snapshot, Conviction voting, NFTs, and more DAOs powered by Aragon!

Sep 30, 2020

Hey everyone!

September was a transformational month for Aragon and marked breakthroughs in scalable voting, user ownership, and experimental governance.

Let’s dive right in!

Optimistic Snapshot 📸

Optimistic Snapshot makes token voting scalable and binding. Tokenholders can vote with just a signature (for free) and after the vote anyone can enact the proposal on-chain via a DAO. If someone tries to enact an illegitimate proposal it gets disputed and sent to Aragon Court. Big, big breakthrough. Read more →

Aragon 🦅 @AragonProject

We are extremely excited to announce a solution that superpowers off-chain voting with on-chain execution ⚡🔗 It builds on Snapshot, which provides off-chain voting, and Aragon Court, which provides optimistic on-chain execution 🗳️ aragon.org/blog/snapshot

The holy grail: Off-chain polling with on-chain executionWe are extremely excited to announce a solution that leverages both off-chain voting with on-chain execution. It superpowers Snapshot, which provides off-chain voting, with Aragon Court, which provides optimistic on-chain execution.aragon.org

Yearn proposal 🔵

Aragon One introduced the idea of implementing Optimistic Snapshot for yearn governance. The proposed mechanism would replace the current multi-sig based governance with decentralized governance using Optimistic Snapshot. Read more →

Jorge Izquierdo 🦅 @izqui9

Working with @AndreCronjeTech to propose a governance mechanism for YFI has been so much fun already. Eager to hear the feedback of the community and hopefully put this in production at the speed that yearn has us used to 😉

yearn.finance @iearnfinance

First official introduction to https://t.co/Tm4Su0BzFk DAO by @izqui9 Have a read and join the conversation; https://t.co/YHu5hBbQyu

#PoweredByAragon launches! 🚀

👻 Aavegotchi DAO - Collect, compete, and combine your Aavegotchis for the ultimate gamified DeFi experience! Read more →

Aragon 🦅 @AragonProject

1/ On Friday, one of the most special DAOs of the year is launching: @aavegotchi DAO 👻 🚀 And you better believe it’s #PoweredByAragon Read more about why it’s so special 👇

Aavegotchi @aavegotchi

Introducing $GHST, the eco-governance token of @Aavegotchi ✨👻🌲⚖️✨ $GHST powers every activity in the Aavegotchi universe, from participating in the DAICO, to buying Aavegotchis, and even farming rarity! Keep reading to learn just how b a s e d this token is. 🧵👇 https://t.co/ApTJBl26tE

🌄 Decentraland DAO - Make decisions that shape the future of the metaverse. Read more →

Aragon 🦅 @AragonProject

Yet another extremely special DAO launched: @decentraland DAO 🌄 🚀 But it didn’t happen overnight. It’s a story of progressive decentralization and it’s #PoweredByAragon Let’s talk about how they did it /Thread...👇

Decentraland @decentraland

The Decentraland DAO is live! Visit https://t.co/b25XotM5S5 and start taking the decisions that shape the future of the metaverse. Learn all about its governance model at https://t.co/s1e15WmisI https://t.co/iqbOOlLK6v

🌉 Barn Bridge - Cross-Platform Fluctuation Derivatives Protocol: Tokenizing Risk with Fixed Yield and Volatility Tranche Products. Read more →

BarnBridge 🌉 @barn_bridge

Big thank you to @kaiynne for helping us in working through our launch & governance approach. When we started @barn_bridge, we didn’t start a company, we started a DAO. We're excited to share how & why we think it's important for the ecosystem.

DAO First: A new governance model.When we started BarnBridge, we didn’t start a company, we started a DAO, otherwise known as a decentralized autonomous organization. We went back and forth on a few options. Should we start a…medium.com

With so many DAOs launching, it can be hard to keep track of them all. We've updated poweredby.aragon.org to include links to socials, chats, forums, Githubs, and DAOs for every community.

Aragon 🦅 @AragonProject

With so many DAOs launching it can be hard to keep track of them all 🚀🚀🚀👀 We've updated poweredby.aragon.org to include links to socials, chats, forums, Githubs, and DAOs for every community🔗🦅🐦💬🐈📷 Discover an Aragon community today!

Belarus protestors experimenting with DAOs 🔌

We’ve always hoped out tools would be used by activists facing oppression. Activists in Belarus are experimenting with Aragon DAOs to fight for their freedom.

Crumple🐾 @iamcrumplecat

Hey #dao-fighters for freedom🐾Join the time-requested and action-oriented 'DAO for protests & activism' discussion🔌 ⏰Start from September 10, on @AragonProject here➡️ forum.aragon.org/t/dao-for-prot… and in Discord chat💭 #DAOforProtest #DAOforActivism #BUIDLinProtest #BelarusProtest

Aragon 🦅 @AragonProject

DAO wizards, a call to help @iamcrumplecat bootstrap a DAO for #BelarusProtest 🚀 https://t.co/IV9SXC3gfD

Precedence Campaign Disputes ⚖️

The next round of precedence campaign disputes meant to emulate the upcoming Aragon Network DAO. Read more →

Conviction Voting 🗳

The Conviction Funding pilot has seen several proposals approved. The pilot leverages conviction voting, a novel voting mechanism that solves many common problems with token voting. Read more →

Aragon 🦅 @AragonProject

The first large scale Conviction Voting experiment has been live for 1 week☝️ 📜 20 proposals submitted 🍰 2.1k/9k ANT allocated 🤑 4 projects funded Lets check out what's been funded so far...Thread👇

Aragon 🦅 @AragonProject

Calling $ANT holders! There are several Conviction Funding proposals from skilled builders that could potentially bring significant value to the Aragon/DAO ecosystem, but if you don't vote, they don't build. ✅🗳→✅🏗 TL;DRs and links for pending proposals👇