Aragon - The Fight for freedom[en].srt

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So you ask me if there's gonna be a revolution?

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I think there's already a revolution happening

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We're seeing it everywhere

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Honestly, I feel like blockchain is almost slipping through the cracks

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They don't even see that we're a threat yet

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If you have a decentralized entity that people can opt-in to

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That starts performing services

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that the government used to provide

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Then what do you need these guys for

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Bitcoin is the first real experiment

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in DAOs

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It's the first DAO that ever existed

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What's a DAO?

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I mean, Decentralized Autonomous Organization is what it stands for

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Basically a decentralized autonomous organization is an organization

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in which you can interact with it without having to go through an intermediary

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I think that it's very important

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for us to have tools that are really censorship-resistant

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We have evolved so much as a society

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but yet our governance structures

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are hundreds of years old

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We had a long period of monarchies

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And that was a very centralized form of governance

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And we had a great evolution with democracies

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spreading that power a bit more

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Now

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I would argue that corporations are superseding nation-states

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in terms of their power

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You're a digital serf, right now, living on Facebook

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You work the land

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You work the feed

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And they take all the benefit, they take all of the value

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It's a free service, where you are the product

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Systems tend to perpetuate themselves

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In other words, capitalism tends to do what's best for the market

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Maybe not what is best for all the individuals who comprise the market

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Silicon Valley, they tend to fund projects

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or companies, that are trying to solve very much first world problems

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How do you get your food 5 minutes quicker

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How do you get your Uber 2 minutes faster

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Whereas with blockchain technology, we have the ability to fund

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initiatives that will produce true social good

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and provide value to the most undervalued parts of humanity

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This is the most egalitarian way

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to construct systems

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The culture is moving faster than the nation-state can handle

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We can have that same personal feeling

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that I have with my neighbour, with the people in a chat room

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Traditional government institutions

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take tremendously long time to fail

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and when they do fail, there's usually violence

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so we try not to let them fail

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But today, we are in the first time in history

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that we can actually try out new governance models

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without the need of people getting killed

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because we can try those governance models from the comfort of our sofa

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In the mathematical realm

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you can not threaten an algorithm with a gun

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Because it's unstoppable, it's open source code

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The cat's out of the bag right away when someone has the idea

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Anything closed source is like saying "I'm a scientist and I've proved something

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but I'm not gonna show you how I've proved it"

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It's just free, you download it from the Internet

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it's open source, you wanna enhance it, you do

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and if you don't like it, you can just fork it

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And if we have means by which groups can connect to each other

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to form larger governance structures, that govern the entire whole

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Then we have something that kind of is resembling a fractal structure

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If you think about kind of other examples of super-organisms

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you have like beehives and ant colonies

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or even just the human body itself

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it's a bunch of cells and micro-organisms

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that are all working together in a single

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like human body is their environment

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But now what we have is proliferating with crypto networks

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is actually these supranational protocols in which human activity can be governed

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on this international basis, without nation-states, without corporations

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So what it allows, is for people to come together from wherever

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And they can interact together, they can make decisions

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they can share in the common enterprise, and then they can all benefit together

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Governance ends up being a really key part of making that work

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And if view blockchains from a evolutionary standpoint

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This may be the most critical feature one could imagine

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Any organization of any kind

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From your Mom-and-pop shop, to your decentralized autonomous organization

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can create an entity on Aragons Network

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and use it for all kinds of things

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like their cap table, like payroll, to show you where their finances are going

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for voting, for upgrades

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to the way in which that organization works

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Aragon is a tool that I think will spawn many different early attempts

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at decentralized governance structures, which if implemented well, will be powerful

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It's actually two components

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So the first one is

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The Aragon platform

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to build and govern organizations

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societies and protocols

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And the other part is the first digital jurisdiction that has ever existed

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The Aragon Network

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That doesn't happen very often in the real world

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It's rare that you get to set up a new central bank or a new government

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So I think we're gonna be in sort of this Cambrian explosion

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of experimentation on both of those fronts

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But with any huge transition that happens in human history

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they are very insistent in making us believe that we need them

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So the incumbents are trying to use their

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marketing power

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their communication power

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their surveillance power

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to convince people that they still need them

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But the market and the people will eventually figure out

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that they don't

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And that will be the end of establishment