Aragon: OS v4 released, research on users mechanism design choices with simulation, new projects implementing DAO with Aragon Paradigm Follow Sep 25, 2018 · 7 min read

Biweekly update 11th September — 25th September

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Developer activity (from coinlib.io)

Using APM to replace NPM and other centralized package managers: APM stands for Aragon Package Manager. The summary is that APM is a decentralized package manager. APM handles the upgreadability of smart contracts as well as arbitrary data blobs.

aragonOS 4: Updates to aragonOS and aragon apps.

Research.aragon.org — Staking locks spec, v2 by Jorge Izquierdo (CTO at Aragon One).

Development update (from Aragon chat, 11th September — 25th September):

@luis (Luis Cuende, CEO at Aragon One):

- Trial week with a candidate

- Wrote a blog post on using APM to replace centralized package managers (to be published soon!)

- Wrote some thoughts on Aragon naming https://research.aragon.org/t/on-aragon-naming/203/4

- Worked on a new WIP goals system for Aragon One

@tatu (Tatu Kärki, Communications at Aragon One):

- prepared and worked on the second Nest Team Interviews: Pando blog post together with @maria, https://blog.aragon.org/nest-team-interviews-pando/

- added items to wiki, our Event Policy, https://wiki.aragon.org/documentation/event_policy/ and Glossary, https://wiki.aragon.org/documentation/glossary/

- worked on our events

- Reviewed, commented and merged multiple Pull Requests in the wiki and pushed some small updates

- Worked a lot on our event related things

- Reviewed, edited and published the APM blog post, http://blog.aragon.one/using-apm-to-replace-npm-and-other-centralized-package-managers/

- Reviewed the editorial submission for Monthly, edited & published the newspaper at https://monthly.aragon.org/ published the blog post https://blog.aragon.org/aragon-monthly-issue-08-is-out/ and put out the monthly email newsletter

@chris-remus (Chris Remus, Product Manager):

- Track, manage and derisk current sprint progress and roadmap timeline

- Coordinate and supplement resources: FE hiring support, DevOps support, testing (DAC)

- Lead weekly product call

- Have product team 1on1 conversations

- Have product design calls and walkthroughs

- Support use case implementation: Althea, Livepeer

- Discuss Prod Mgr role evolution with Jorge and Luis

- Track, manage and derisk current sprint progress and roadmap timeline

- Initiate user story list development with @lkngtn

- Provide feedback on refined product management process to @luis

- Submit product manager role evolution plan draft to @jorge and @luis

- Lead weekly product call and sprint check-in’s

- Participate in other team calls: design and State of Aragon

- Review audit report

- Coordinate additional devops support with @jorge

@bingen (Bingen Eguzkitza, Solidity Engineer):

- Nest: review and support several projects (Dappnode, BrightID, Apiary, Espresso, The Planning Tab)

- Labs: Discussion about Staking/Locking. Follow-up with Enigma secret voting.

- aragon-apps and aragonOS: help with last changes to get ready for the audit

- Audit freeze: Implement aragon-apps issue 270 (Voting threshold adjustment)

- Audit freeze/aragonOS 4: review and merge a bunch of PRs, and review report for auditors

- aragon-apps: make Voting inequality strict

- DAO-kits: upgrade to aragonOS 4

- Nest: review and support several projects

@jorge (Jorge Izquierdo, CTO at Aragon One):

- Trial week with a candidate

- Clean up and code reviews on the CLI after ETHBerlin

- AGP23 daemon app for veto proposals

- Reviewed and implemented some of the last pull requests for freezing aragon-apps and aOS. We are now frozen ☃️

- Research: Made good progress on our thinking around Stake locking with the team (@bingen @lkngtn), spec coming together, this new staking app iteration will probably be the core of the Aragon Network v1. Also built daemon app for AGP23 implementation (https://github.com/aragonlabs/AGP23)

- Radspec: Implemented helper functions for common radspec uses such as formatting token amounts or formatting dates and time (https://github.com/aragon/radspec/pull/42). Also radspec now has `!=` and `==` operators for integers and all comparisons for bytes and address types (https://github.com/aragon/radspec/pull/41)

- A *lot* of smaller things this week (such as voting to get @maria in a board https://twitter.com/thecryptovalley/status/1042869767055597574), code reviews and more calls than usual

@sohkai (Brett Sun, Lead Developer at Aragon One):

Been on vacation for a week and a half 🏖 🏄🏼

Prior to that:

- Freezing aragonOS 4 and aragon-apps for audits (now frozen!)

- Wrote a guide on the changes to aragonOS since aragonOS 3: https://github.com/aragon/aragonOS/wiki/aragonOS-4:-Updates-to-aragonOS-and-aragon-apps

@light (John Light, Community at Aragon One):

- Catching up after Freecoast Festival (slides here)

- Further work on AGP-0

- Reviewed some internal Aragon One proposals and provided feedback

- Misc work on GitHub

- Routine community tasks

- Helped with some event tasks

- Drafted a community update blog post

- Started work on a Gitcoin bounty tutorial to replace our Status Open Bounty tutorial

- Added some documentation to the wiki

- Routine community tasks

@maria (Maria Gomez, Strategy & Operations):

- Nest: reviewed the application process, I will be working on improving it in the next couple of weeks (Let me know if you guys have any suggestions). Helped Tatu with the teams Interviews and reviewed proposals and applications. New teams will be joining this coming week. ♥

- Participated in the American Bar Association Annual Meeting: I was invited to talk about the Aragon project.

- Other tasks related to Ecosystem development.

- Worked on Nest: reviewing proposals and request for funding, preparing the onboarding process of two new teams: EthSignals https://github.com/aragon/nest/pull/66 and Wetonomi https://github.com/aragon/nest/pull/70 😍 🦅 Among other routines tasks

- Supported the AragonDAC team on matters related to coordination and management

- Presented my candidacy and got elected as a board member of the Crypto Valley Association. Up until now the board had not crypto project’s representation

- Other tasks related to ecosystem development

@lkngtn (Luke Duncan, Research at Aragon One):

- documented and discussed key uses cases with @jorge & @bingen for a staking app that would allow users to lock tokens as collateral but also participate in voting apps.

- Worked on documenting user stories to help with planning

- Built an agent based model using mesa for simulating the impact of assumptions about agent behavior and mechanism design choices to support further research and analysis on the Aragon Court mechanism. https://github.com/aragonlabs/court-sim/

@alexa (Alexa Weaver, Operations Assistant):

- Payments for Nest, OSS donations

- Payments for Service Providers and Sponsorships

- Helping with Lawyers/Banking

- Event on Humanitarian Relief and Crypto community

@bpierre (Pierre Bertet, UI & Interaction Developer):

- Aragon DAO Backed Transcoders: Livepeer transcoders powered by Aragon DAOs.

- Various updates to the voting app https://github.com/aragon/aragon-apps/pull/448

- Aragon UI SidePanel: improve perfs + fix a flickering issue on Chrome https://github.com/aragon/aragon-ui/pull/206

@kris (Kris Decoodt, Communication Circle Lead at Giveth):

- Prepped an agenda for the meeting on the 21st & closed & created some new github issues based on this, uploaded missing docs on our drive

- Call with Tatu on taking over the Aragon Community Newsletter, prepared edition 8 together

- Quick review of a community text by john

- Held the aragon dac meeting with the team & discussed all the open to do’s

Social encounters

Aragon Monthly Issue 08: The latest issue of the community curated digital newspaper about DAOs, decentralized governance and the Aragon ecosystem.

True Decentralization by Luis Cuende: EthBerlin video:

Dweb: Creating Decentralized Organizations with Aragon by Luis Cuende: post in the Mozilla Hacks d-web series.

Nest Team Interviews: Pando — The second of Aragon Nest Team Interviews is with Pando who are also working on an open source incentivization app.

Blockchain Summit Crypto Valley@blockchain_summ: Luis Cuende telling what has been happening with Aragon and about their progress in the past 6 months.

Interview with ENS team (Chris Remus).

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.

Finance

Token holders and the number of transactions dynamics (from Etherscan.io)

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

Aragon’s Impact on BrightID: BrightID seeks to provide everyone with the benefits of being verified as a unique person–namely, greater access to money, honest information and greater choice in government. Aragon allows new types of governments–which go beyond traditional physical boundaries and use public, transparent contracts stored on an immutable blockchain.

Crypto Valley‏ @thecryptovalley: new board member — @MyPaoG of @AragonProject (Maria Gomez, Strategy & Operations).

Althea Development Update #57: First transactions, DAO payments soon to follow: progress on DAO features using Aragon.

Rumors

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The number of Reddit threads’ comments are: 1–15.

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