30 September 2022: Core and App Teams Moving at Full Speed 🚀

Product teams making progress on SDK, plugin architecture, and in-app UX; New forum section to kick-off facilitated stakeholder feedback for Aragon DAO; DAO Expert profile pages launch.

Top 3

• The Core and App teams are making great progress. They shared an update on their progress in the SDK, plugin architecture, finance view, governance view, and proposal flows.

• The DAO transition team selected a delegated voting tech stack built by the Blossom Labs and 1Hive team. The team is finalizing the governance design for feedback and will begin that process shortly on a new section of the forum. The feedback will be facilitated by DAO Craft, a neutral third-party group.

• We released bespoke profile pages for each of our DAO Experts so builders can learn more about them before booking services. Read them here!

Highlight of the Week: SDK development advancing at full speed, Finance View complete in the App

Although the protocol’s functionality is essentially done, our engineering team has been doing some refactoring to ensure the developer experience is as smooth as possible.

Most importantly, we spent the last few weeks improving the plugin architecture to lower the learning curve for plugin engineers. Through a two-step approach, developers can now prepare their plugin for installation and process the install with lower gas cost and easier access to our permissions management system.

Thanks to this, development on the SDK has been advancing at full speed, enabling some key features on the app’s side.

On the App side, we have been working on the Finance View, which enables DAOs to view all of their transactions (including both deposits and withdrawals) in one single view.

With that done, we are now focusing on building the two most essential parts of any DAO: its Governance View and Proposal Creation flow. A product sneak peek is coming soon, but if you want to geek out already, you can find our codebase in Github!

Votes

The two votes on the future of AN DAO charter and treasury are ending in 6 days. If you haven’t yet, cast your vote now at the links below:

Future of AN DAO Charter

Future of AN DAO Treasury Balance

Proposals

There are no new proposals up for vote this week.

Network Highlights

We launched profile pages for each of the DAO Experts:

Aragon 🦅 @AragonProject

Where could you take your DAO with a vetted, skilled expert by your side? We’ve compiled info on our DAO Experts’ services so you can get started even faster. Simply click on the expert’s profile to discover more about them aragon.org/experts Check out the highlights 🧵👇

aragon.orgDAO ExpertsWe connect DAO creators seeking support with the teams, resources, and tools in the space best able to assist and advise them. Connect with DAO experts to build your DAO, your way.

We hosted Opolis, one of our DAO Experts in a Twitter Space. Catch up with the recording here:

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Join us tomorrow, 4:00pm UTC for an AMA with @0xJoshuaSL from @opolis to hear about DAO contributor benefits & learn what you need to navigate digital employment in Web3. Set a reminder here 👇 https://t.co/vDMpgHg3bH

Data analyst Martín gave a speech on DAOs 101 at a crypto meetup in Buenos Aries:

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Tomorrow @pato23_eth will be discussing "DAOs 101" at CryptoMeetUp Metaverso in Buenos Aires. Drop by to say hi if you're in the area! 🇦🇷 You can save a spot for the talk here: meetup.com/espacio-bitcoi…

meetup.comEL GRAN EVENTO CRYPTO - METAVERSO, Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 6:00 PM | Meetup***Cryptomeetups 5.0*** Llega a Buenos Aires la quinta edición de meetups, esta vez con tematica de *METAVERSO*. * Presentaciones * Workshop * Networking * Food & drinks *

Juliette shared learnings from MCon and DappCon in a blog post:

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Product-developer fit leads to product-market fit? DAOs in their teenage phase? Read up on patterns in the ecosystem that @_juliettech found to be prevalent at both @mcon_world & @dappcon_berlin 👇 blog.aragon.org/learnings-from…

blog.aragon.orgDAO Developer Learnings from MCON and DappConAfter attending MCON and DappCon back-to-back, here are some patterns that became prevalent to our Developer Advocate Juliette Chevalier.

A new How To guide on managing DAO treasuries was released:

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For more information on how to manage your DAO’s treasury, read the guide below and fill out the surveys on the bottom of the page to let us know which other topics you’d like included as a How To Guide!

aragon.orgHow to Manage a DAO TreasuryThe first principle of DAO treasury management - as with any asset management - is not to lose money. This sounds difficult and obvious in equal measure, but it’s important to reinforce because it will help to guide all of the subsequent decisions the DAO makes.

Events

Today we have a heartwarming and exciting example of Aragon reaching the 🌏

Ali-yhc.eth, contributor at Matters Lab, gave a blockchain lecture to high schoolers at Zhongshan Girls High School in Taiwan. He presented a brief flyover of crypto, NFTs, and DAOs. Aragon was featured prominently as a platform for building DAOs. It’s exciting to see Aragon reaching new audiences and future DAO builders far and wide!

Ali-yhc.eth @yuhschang

Sharing web3 to senior high school students. Web3 and the audiences are both the future!

CTAs

• Cast your vote on Aragon Voice for the future of the AN DAO charter and treasury balance.

• Read the post on Juliette’s learnings from MCon and DappCon

• Show the DAO Experts some love on Twitter!

Talk of the DAO: Stakeholder-Based Consultation

The DAO transition team has been hard at work identifying and addressing risk vectors for the treasury transition. Now that a tech solution has been selected, they are ready to begin stakeholder feedback on the governance design of the new delegated voting DAO.

Gathering feedback in a stakeholder-based process allows us to look at the Aragon DAO design and governance from our shared lenses, rather than individual opinions. This will hopefully lead us to feedback that is meaningful, consolidated and representative of our core interests as a community. We have mapped the Aragon ecosystem in the following groups:

• ANT holders

• Developers in the Aragon ecosystem

• Core team members & AN DAO contributors

• Supporters

These consultations will start in the new section of the forum under Aragon DAO. They will be facilitated by a group of trained and experienced facilitators, the DAO Craft team. There will also be a series of video calls to get feedback. Stay tuned in this newsletter and on the forum to sign up for the upcoming consultation workshops.

Have a great weekend!

—the Comms team