DAO Global Hackathon winners announced
DAO Global Hackathon bounty winners announced, discussions of returning value to token holders continue in the forum, second Nouns DAO private voting build progress report is live
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The DAO Global Hackathon bounty winners were announced! Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to everyone who submitted a project. Read the full list of winners in this blog and the Aragon winners in the highlight below.
ANT holders are advancing a variety of paths forward on the forum to return value to token holders. These include: launching veANT, buybacks, rage quit combined with veANT, immediate full treasury transfer, defunding everything, and other paths to increase the value of their token holdings.
The second progress report on the Nouns DAO private voting build is live. See how Aragon ZK Research and Aztec Network are advancing the state of the art in anonymous voting!
Note: expect maintenace on legacy Aragon products on Monday, May 22 between 5 and 10 am UTC.
From the engineering team:
The hosted solution on subgraph will have some downtime Monday May 22 between 05:00 - 10:00 UTC. The service will be unavailable for 30-60 minutes during this time window. This includes applications built on the legacy Aragon OS stack, including the current Aragon DAO, Court, Connect, Voting, Vault, Finance, and Govern.
DAO Global Hackathon winners announced
We had tons of impressive submissions at the DAO Global Hackathon and are so grateful for this talented community of builders!
Check out what was built on Aragon OSx during the DAO Global Hackathon:
Best Decision Making Plugin
🏆 DualTokenVotingPlugin
DAOs built on Aragon OSx can create an NTT (Non-Transferable Token) that represents the member's citizenship in the DAO.
Best Quickstart dApp
🏆 DeFi Quickstarter plugin by Sassy Finance
The team built 3 plugins:
Sub-governance plugin: enables the creation of sub governance groups within an existing DAO.
Uniswap token swap plugin: DAO members can swap tokens within the DAO itself.
Opensea NFT collector plugin: authorized wallets can buy NFTs directly from OpenSea within the DAO itself.
🏆 DAO webapp template by QuickCode
An easy to use, robust frontend foundation for DAOs. Spin up your DAO faster with this template!
Most creative use of OSx
🏆 1VOTE by 0xKYC
Proof of uniqueness based on a selfie. Each person gets a unique identifier that they can use across wallets. This team is building KYC for DAOs who want 1-person-1-vote governance with a focus on privacy. Bravo!
🏆 EtherLuxe by DefinMe
Gaming marketplace and DAO that allows users to manage in-game content. You can buy an NFT character and receive NFT governance tokens that give you the right to vote. Gaming, meet governance!
Even more teams used Aragon OSx to launch their projects....for other bounties!
Check out how OSx was used in other projects across the hackathon:
Lens and Kleros plugins by DAObox
The DAObox team built Lens and Kleros plugins for DAOs built on Aragon OSx, winning across three categories in the hackathon!
DAOMail by Shubham Patel
Shubham Patel created email for DAOs using Mailchain and Aragon OSx, taking home the Mailchain prize!
Feeling inspired? Join us!
Come build tools that allow anyone to experiment with governance at the speed of software! Get started in our developer documentation:
Votes
No recent votes.
Proposals
There are many discussions on the forum seeking to find the best method to return value to token holders:
May 10: Buy, invest, vest by luis
May 12: Returning value to ANT holders via buyback by alex-arca
May 15: Expedite treasury transfer + pledge by AntHoldersUnite
May 16: Sentiment check: veANT, ragequit by luis
May 17: A path forward with exit (RQ) and voice (veANT) by fartunov
May 17: Defund everything and clawback by ant_holder
Discussions not directly related to returning value to token holders:
May 10: Centralization, censorship, cronyism by ant_holder
May 17: Request for clarification: liabilities and transparency reports by linxx
May 18: Enhancing ANT Liquidity on Uniswap V3: A strategic proposal for capital efficiency and greater decentralisation by AClay
Network Highlights
Even amdist the uncertainty of recent token holder disagreements regarding returning value to their holdings, the Aragon teams continue to ship. Read this thread to see what the Aragon teams built in the last few weeks:
Check out the progress report from Aragon ZK Research and Aztec:
Congratulations to all the winners of the DAO Global Hackathon! See what they built:
Events
5th Distributed Ledger Technology Workshop—Bologna, Italy. May 25-26.
The Aragon ZK Research team will be speaking about:
The Referendum problem in anonymous voting for DAOs
Speakers: Vincenzo Iovino, Artem Grigor, and Giuseppe Visconti
CTAs
Show support to the teams building on Aragon OSx that won in the DAO Global Hackathon!
Check out the discussions on the forum.
Read the second Nouns DAO private voting progress report from the Aragon ZK team.
See what Aragon teams built in the last few weeks.
Have a great weekend!
—Aragon Growth Guild