Here’s a roundup of Aragon highlights from the past month:
The new modular Aragon app is here: We’re enabling the next generation of onchain organizations through modular and effective governance tooling.
Introducing The Value Accrual Toolkit: A set of tools and services to optimize resource allocation via incentive alignment to drive value back to your token.
Bedrock launches their custom build: Bedrock is introducing tokenomics-first governance alongside their $BR token.
Livestreams with Governance frens: We hosted two livestreams, one with the chads of Mode to discuss tokenomics as a growth engine, and another with Polar and Dr. Nick to discuss what’s next for onchain organizations.
Aragon Offsite: The team was heads down cooking new tech for onchain organizations at an offsite in Lisbon last week.
We hosted Decentralized Drinks with our friends at Sophon, and some of the best governance minds. Missed it? Follow us on Luma for the next.
Organizations have created immense value for humanity. They embolden innovators to pool resources and take risks to drive society into new territory.
It’s time for the next generation of onchain organizations. One that returns to the core purpose of empowering innovators to create, accrue, and share value—where governance works for builders, not against them, and where token holders have real ownership over assets and value flows.
With our latest launches, we’re enabling this next generation of onchain organizations by focusing on two key areas:
Value Creation: To succeed, teams need to move fast without getting bogged down by politics and bureaucracy. At the same time, they must be held accountable to their mission and stakeholders.
Value Distribution: As a measure of success, value must accrue so that it can be distributed fairly among stakeholders with skin in the game. Those who take risks to support innovation should be rewarded, with clear mechanisms to participate in and benefit from value accrual.
Now, organizations can deploy custom governance processes onchain using the Aragon app.
Launch custom governance designs that align with your structure, operations, and stakeholders—all in one deployment.
Include as many different proposal types as needed, each tailored to specific actions (ex. protocol upgrades, treasury management, grants).
Design custom multi-stage proposal flows for each proposal type.
Configure stages to require governance approval or pass optimistically unless vetoed.
Flexibly add timelocks before, after, or during governance processes to give DAO members time to react.
Empower all of your stakeholders as “governing bodies” by granting them specific permissions based on their role or expertise.
Here’s a guide to understand how to deploy these actions.
The Value Accrual Toolkit, built on Aragon OSx, provides protocols with a set of modular tokenomic primitives designed to align incentives, optimize resource allocation, and channel value back to the native token.
It transforms governance into a tokenomic flywheel, driving sustainable value creation and accrual through effective tools for native token liquidity management and structured capital allocation, all while minimizing governance overhead.
The Value Accrual Toolkit introduces two main tokenomic primitives:
Vote Escrow (veLocker): Encourages long-term commitment by allowing users to lock tokens for increased voting power, throttling exit, creating a native token liquidity sink, and directly tying governance weight to economic commitment.
Gauges: Provides a structured, low-overhead approach to resource allocation, ensuring capital is efficiently allocated across protocol-aligned funding initiatives.
Nathan, our Head of BD, will be joining a space with peaq next week to discuss Machine Economy DAOs.
We’ll also be hosting a tokenomics livestream in the next few weeks, so stay tuned for that.
Have a great weekend, see you next month, and follow us on X in the meantime!
—Aragon X
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