22 July 2022: DAO Transition Roadmap Released
22 July 2022: DAO Transition Roadmap Released
Decentralization timeline released, TAO voting functionalities discussed, and Charter Improvement Proposals ready for a vote.
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The progressive decentralization timeline is now public! Get up to speed with the future of the Aragon treasury and the core team by reading the weekly highlight below.
TAO and delegated voting are hot topics right now. Listen to this Twitter Space where Samantha interviewed Paul and Sem from 1Hive on the functionalities of TAO voting, and read these two posts on delegated voting.
Charter Improvement Proposals (CIP) 0, 1, and 2 are live in an Aragon Voice vote. Catch up on the contents of these proposals in the Vote section below.
Weekly Highlight: Aragon Shares the DAO Transition Roadmap
Aragon’s progressive decentralization is underway. On Tuesday, we shared the details of our transition roadmap. This includes a delegated voting structure, which is still being deliberated in the forum.
The roadmap:
31 September 2022: The smart contracts for the DAO will be complete and ready to be audited.
1 October 2022: Delegate elections will take place.
1 November 2022: Selected delegates will take their positions.
30 November 2022: The treasury transfer will occur, only if the tech is determined to be safe to use.
Read more about the progressive decentralization of the Aragon Network in this blog.
Votes
Three Charter Improvement Proposals are ready for a vote on Aragon Voice. Vote at this link, and read the details of the proposals below:
Proposals
Mastering Governance: Legislature - Invitation to the workshop
Mike Ananyin invites the Aragon Network DAO to participate in his workshops on legislature in governance. The output of these workshops would be a “Legislature Resolutions” document, which would then kick start a legislature subDAO.
Aragon dTech Season 2 Funding Proposal
The dTech team requests $363,000 to fund the next 8 months of operation. dTech will use this funding to:
Provide technical support to users of Aragon products.
Manage Aragon’s Technical Support Forum.
Collaborate with developers from other teams to support growth of Aragon products and the Aragon Network.
Translate technical resources into Spanish.
Grow and manage Aragon’s user documentation.
Perform user testing of new Aragon products.
Create bounties.
Network Highlights
Ivan and Juliette spoke at EthCC:
Samantha spoke with Paul and Sem from 1Hive to better understand their TAO voting structure. Listen to the Twitter Space recording here:
AN DAO had a meme contest. The winners are below:
Bounty posting! If you love writing and research, consider picking up this How To guide bounty to contribute to a DAO educational effort.
There’s also a bounty available for writing a Twitter thread on DAO Experts. Find that here.
Events
Join this week’s Twitter Spaces AMA at 2:30pm UTC with DeepDAO (rescheduled from last week).
dGov will be discussing Community Rituals on 27 July, 7pm UTC. Join them in the Aragon Discord server. RSVP at this Discord calendar link.
Samantha will be speaking at the Web3 Growth virtual summit on 25 July. The topic of her talk is DAO Governance Experimentation Strategies.
Join the Gravity DAO conflict resolution workshops, which are still ongoing:
CTAs
Vote in the Aragon Voice vote.
Fill out this Aragon DAO end of season survey to help the DAO improve for season 2.
RSVP to the next dgov campfire on July 27.
Read the How To guide bounty to see if it’s a good fit for your skill set.
Talk of the DAO: Web2 Propaganda That Continues to Haunt
by Jessica Smith
I recently jumped to web3 after spending formative years at Meta (Facebook). For better or worse, I’m haunted by web2 propaganda. I can’t shake the posters that lined every office wall, some of them more helpful than others (such as the infamous “move fast break things”). The way they were unnaturally drilled into us makes me wonder if what was forced in web2 is actually meant to be practiced in web3.
I’ll share three posters of web2 propaganda that I hope can be helpful for our work here in the DAO space.
Nothing at [Insert Project] is Somebody Else’s Problem
In a decentralized environment, projects can devolve into a game of hot potato. Under these conditions, those who raise their hands to help and do the work become indispensable linchpins. In DAOs perhaps more than anywhere, it seems the future belongs to those who are most helpful. And, since DAOs rely on people noticing problems and stepping in to solve them, those who own problems and seek ways to solve them will make lasting change in the space.
It Isn’t Prioritization Until It Hurts
Prioritization is painful, even on a good day. The fluid nature of DAOs makes prioritization excruciating. More often than not, it forces us to say no—both to great ideas and to great people. But if we are to create value in the world, we need to be ruthlessly focused on our mission and how we plan to deliver. Prioritization hurt in web2, and I expect it will in web3, too.
Ship Love
They say, “put your money where your mouth is.” This piece of web2 propaganda says, “put your code where your heart is.” When we serve a mission greater than ourselves, we work with our hearts on our sleeves. It may make us vulnerable to heartbreak, but serving humanity is a powerful driver for impact. Why ship a product that you don’t love, or ship something that doesn’t make the world a better place?
While we don’t have physical office walls to hang these posters on here at Aragon, I'm okay with being haunted by ideas that are helpful, and I hope they might haunt you, too.
Nothing at Aragon is somebody else’s problem
It isn’t prioritization until it hurts
Ship love
Have a great weekend!
—the Comms Team