Aragon Nest

To help support the ecosystem flourish Aragon, together with Placeholder — lead by Joel Monegro and Chris Burniske — announced a grants program called Aragon Nest.

Overview

Launch Date: 12/6/17

Total Funding Allocated: not disclosed

Total Funds Distributed to Date (if available): not disclised

What Asset(s) are the funds paid out with (native token versus $USD, for example): $USD

Where funding is tracked: There was a category on their governance forum that covered this but that has since been taken down

Area(s) of Focus

• Tools for making the ecosystem sustainable, such as open source repositories run by governance tokens using Aragon
• Developer tools for building applications on Aragon
• Better communication tools for effective governance, possibly using Whisper and other messaging protocols, by having an app which locks an action in time until there has been significant discussion
• Complex governance mechanisms with off-chain components, to achieve scalability
• Aragon UI developer tools and implementations in different frameworks
• More apps for Aragon Core

Governance

Individual requests and proposals were reviewed by a team and funding was approved on a case by case basis.

How to Apply

This program is now closed

Announcements, forum posts, news articles or other media that may be relevant

https://github.com/aragon/nest

https://www.chipin.com/introducing-aragon-nest-grants-program/

https://medium.com/aragondec/introducing-aragon-nest-1aa8c91c0566