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Organizations don’t normally operate from a single undifferentiated treasury. Different funds serve different purposes and involve different stakeholders. An operations team may need a dedicated budget for payroll and vendors. Protocol revenue may be allocated to rewards and incentives. Other funds may be reserved for grants, buybacks, or long-term

2026 will determine whether crypto-native tokens become real, investable assets. Learn why ownership tokens, enforceable rights, and value accrual matter.

If we want tokens to be investable and valuable assets, there is one ingredient we can’t keep dodging: ownership.

ETHDevcon Argentina made clear the next era of Ethereum will be shaped by teams that prioritize privacy, robust governance, institutional readiness, and new forms of capital coordination.

Aragon and Enclave are deepening the privacy spectrum in onchain governance, introducing verifiable secret ballots that make voting both confidential and provably secure. Privacy is essential to meaningful governance. It gives participants the freedom to express their views without pressure, ensuring outcomes reflect genuine consensus rather than influence. Earlier this

Over the past two months, the Aragon team shipped major upgrades designed to make governance simpler, safer, and more composable.

Learn how Aragon is safeguarding DeFi assets on Morpho for the Ethereum Foundation and how the Guardians experience is improving with LockToVote, a new governance plugin on Aragon OSx.

Morpho Vaults V2 set a new standard for onchain asset curation. Alongside it, depositor oversight is upgrading too. Together with Morpho, we’ve built Guardians V2, a new system that makes it easier for vault depositors to exercise their onchain veto power, powered by Aragon’s LockToVote plugin. Oversight for

ve-lockers and gauges became the cornerstone of aligned tokenomics in DeFi. Spearheaded by Curve, they set the standard for rewarding long-term commitment and directing incentives where the community values them most. Now, YieldBasis, led by the team behind Curve and the original ve and gauge vision on Aragon, is building

Distributing capital has been expensive, labour-intensive, full of legal uncertainty, and rife with mistakes. Today, we’re changing that. Incentives and rewards are the lifeblood of onchain ecosystems. They drive liquidity, attract builders, and align stakeholders. But distributing capital onchain has never been easy. Most projects today rely on Merkle

Value accrual is the engine of sustainable growth for ecosystems. It aligns incentives, strengthens networks, and creates a feedback loop where usage drives value and value flows back to participants. Obvious as it may sound, most ecosystems struggle to design these systems. We at Aragon set out to change this,

Set up limited-liability wrappers for the wallets and roles that run your protocol. No paperwork, no slowdown. For years, decentralized organizations have been stuck in regulatory limbo. Projects that move at the speed of code often rely on opaque, off‑chain entities that slow them down and create unnecessary risk.

The past month focused on further unlocking the true power of OSx for onchain organizations, with new updates across governance design, proposal creation, and UI features making it easier than ever to build exactly what your org needs. From private, encrypted voting to modular permissions and streamlined proposal creation, the

No-code separation of powers: grant precise, function-level permissions without writing a line of code. The ideal organization spreads decision-making so one process isn't responsible for everything. Onchain, however, most teams are forced to spin up a single, all-powerful contract (like a multisig or a DAO) to control everything.