Luis Cuende: Aragon – Decentralized Governance and the Fight for Freedom

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Aragon Founder Luis Cuende joined us to discuss their work on building tools for decentralized governance. We covered the origins of his deep drive, why this is a crucial fight for humanity and the tools that Aragon has built.

Topics covered in this episode:

• How Luis became an advisor to the European Commissionas as a 16-year old
• Why freedom and technology became Luis’ prime obsession
• The origin story and vision of Aragon
• The risk surveillance and authoritarianism pose to humanity
• Why decentralized governance is the key to freedom
• How to think about inequality and blockchain governance
• Why on-chain governance makes more sense on application than protocol level
• AragonOS and its different applications
• The Aragon Network Token and potential role in a decentralized court system
• The road to decentralizing Aragon organizationally

Episode links:

• Aragon Network
• The Aragon Manifesto
• Decentralized organizations can solve the world’s worst problems
• Aragon - The fight for freedom Video
• Decentralizing Aragon’s development – Aragon
• Decentralizing Aragon’s development II: Minimum Viable Foundation
• Decentralizing Aragon's development III: Onboarding new teams

This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/236