Dec 2024: The Future of Governance is Modular

We published a thesis on why the future of governance is modular, partnered with MetaLeX to bring both legal and technical expertise to DAOs, and had a blast at Devcon.

TLDR

• Recent Highlights:

  • Monolithic governance frameworks are holding back protocols, but modularity will solve this. We published a thesis on why we believe the future of governance is modular.

  • DAOs 🤝 BORGS: We combined technical and legal expertise with MetaLeX to offer the most robust tools and services for onchain governance, offering flexible, composable, and adaptable solutions for DAOs.

  • We had a great time at Devcon. Our team spoke at multiple events, met a lot of DAO builders, hosted a productive governance lunch with Agora, and went on a Michelin star food trip on tuktuks with industry friends.

• What’s Next: The whole Aragon team will have a company-wide shutdown over the holidays starting on Dec. 23 until Jan. 3.

Recent Highlights

The Future of Governance is Modular

Monolithic governance frameworks are putting at risk the very things they are intended to govern – revolutionary DeFi protocols, public goods funding protocols, Ethereum scaling solutions, and all the other exciting things that we are in this industry for.

Despite the clear benefits of modular governance, many projects remain tethered to monolithic tools and extractive providers. Why? The issue isn’t talent—governance professionals and DAO builders are eager to innovate.

Instead, they’re constrained by laborious decision-making processes and rigid systems that aren’t appropriate for the actual problems they’re trying to solve. It’s a difficult loop to innovate your way out of. Delegates with no skin in the game and tooling providers have incentives to reinforce the status quo of unchecked vanilla delegate voting, yet are themselves the decision makers.

But things are changing. Governance experts and communities are recognizing the need for modular systems that unlock them to do better work and set their organizations up for success.

Devcon Recap

Here are some highlights from our time at Devcon:

Governance Lunch with Agora attended by delegates, operators, and builders

Aragon CTO Carlos onstage at the RiscZero event

Tuktuk-ing around Bangkok during our food trip with MetaLeX and friends

Anthony spoke at multiple events daily, here he is at AggSummit

Aragon team in full force at Devcon. Yes, that’s our CTO lying on the floor.

We have some exciting updates ahead so don’t forget to follow us on X. Have a great weekend, and see you in the New Year!

—Aragon X