Aragon Briefing Document
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General Discovery
Researched by: Tobias
About the event
- Project: Aragon
- Guests: Samantha Marin, Core contributor in Communications and Growth for the Aragon Project
- Topic: How to turn a traditional business into a DAO
- Event schedule: 08/16
- NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE
About our guest speaker
- Include guest name(s); try to include name pronunciation.
- Can be abbreviated as Sam
- Write a short bio about the guest(s) including their role at the project they are speaking about.
- Find one or two things that are unique or interesting about our guest. Little known facts are great! i.e. owns two Shiba Inus in real life so bought a lot of SHIB.
- Has a YouTube channel called DAO Basics
- Describe their crypto journey thus far. i.e. graduated from college in 2016, got their first bitcoin as a graduation gift, fell down the rabbithole of Ethereum, launched a DeFi protocol in 2020.
- Senior content writer at Aragon, started in May 2022
- Also contributes to the Bankless DAO blog, writes about the human side of DAOs/web3
About the project
- What is the general positioning of the project? i.e. DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, governance.
- Aragon is a frontend interface to build DAOs.
- Can be thought of as an “Operating System” for DAOs.
- What is the value proposition of the project? How does it clearly differentiate itself from others in the web3 space?
- Aragon started out as a traditional web3 projects, which is now gradually being turned into a DAO.
- How does it benefit it community members and general web3 communities at large?
- Aragon was one of the first web3 infrastructure projects specifically targeting DAOs, established in 2017.
- Is it bridging blockchains, protocols, tools, communities, etc.?
- Aragon is available on Ethereum, Polygon, Harmony, and Andromeda
- Has also developed solutions for gasless voting (Aragon Voice), secure voting (Vocdoni), optimistic voting (Aragon Govern), and dispute resolution (Aragon Court).
- How does it improve the web3 ecosystem?
- Aragon contributes to DAO standardization by offering standardized templates to create DAOs.
- Generally, how does the product work?
- Provide basic information about the product
- In order to create a DAO, you can choose from several different templates, depending on your DAO use case. Depending on the chosen template, Aragon will provide all of the necessary modules to run the DAO (i.e. treasury management, payments, voting, etc.).
- Details of product stemming off high level overview
- Certain rights within the DAO can be delegated to a specific module (e.g. the right to make a transaction from the treasury can be delegated to the voting module, meaning that a payment is automatically executed upon a governance vote).
- Outline a few mid to high-level topics about the product
- Optimistic voting on Aragon Govern
- Governance decisions can be scheduled by every DAO member who has the rights to do so.
- If there are no objections, the decision is executed automatically.
- If there is an objection, the decision is handed over to Aragon court for dispute resolution.
- Practical applications of product.
- Detail current functionality of project, where it is deployed, TVL.
- As of June 2021, there were over 1800 DAOs on Aragon with a combined transaction volume of over 4 billion USD.
- Current and potential use cases.
- Creating and managing DAOs
- Optimistic voting
- Dispute resolution
- Token economy.
- The ANT token is used for dispute resolution in Aragon Court.
- Any recent, meaningful updates to the project.
- Aragon is gradually transitioning into a DAO.
- Sam has commented on that.
About the ecosystem
- Find one or two things the speaker has shared in the past about the future growth, impact of web3?
Resources
References
- Relevant project links including discord, website, twitter, podcast, medium, mirror, substack, gitbook, etc.
- Social media details of the guest.
Sources
- List every source used to curative the information in this outline. including blogs, tweets, sources of images, websites, youtube videos, interviews, podcasts, books, etc.