# Aragon

`kaal:entity:aragon`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 5 claims that carry the concept tag `aragon`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

5 claims across 2 works, 2017 to 2021.

**2017**

- [2992962-032](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2992962-032) [design/argued] -- Giving disputants the power to select between notary pools, as OpenBazaar does, is a clear improvement over Aragon's method of completely random selection of judges from the entire group of users posting bonds.
  > However, OpenBazaar's more complex structure giving disputants the power of selecting between notary pools is a clear improvement over Aragon's method of completely random selection from the entire group of users posting judge bonds.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962
- [2992962-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2992962-033) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Aragon appears not to post even a summary of its arbiters' reasoning, which may cause the losing party to second guess the legitimacy of the entire Aragon dispute resolution mechanism.
  > In fact, Aragon appears to not even post a summary of their arbiters' reasoning which may cause the losing party to second guess the legitimacy of the entire dispute resolution mechanism in Aragon.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962
- [2992962-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2992962-034) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Without judge expertise in the subject matter of a smart contract dispute, user confidence in effective and fair conflict resolution is undermined, which reduces confidence in crypto transactions as a whole and can undermine the evolution of the crypto economy.
  > Without judge's expertise in a given smart contract subject matter of a dispute user confidence in effective and fair conflict resolution is undermined which leads to overall less confidence in crypto transactions as a whole and can undermine the evolution of the crypto economy.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962
- [2992962-035](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2992962-035) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The economic incentive for Aragon judges to follow the more popular vote, since judges keep their bond only if they voted with the majority, calls into question whether the mechanism delivers effective, non arbitrary, and fair dispute resolution.
  > the economic incentives for judges to follow a more popular vote (in the Aragon system judges keep their bond if they voted with the majority), despite the overall anonymity of the voting, may call required notions of effective, non- arbitrary, and fair dispute resolution mechanisms into question.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962

**2021**

- [3782201-026](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782201-026) [empirical/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Aragon's refusal to use its own protocol to arbitrate an internal dispute is testimony to the lack of trust its own system designers place in their system's capabilities, and its reputation and legislative and judicial governance protocols remain trivial.
  > In RWRW, Aragon declined to use their own protocol to arbitrate an internal dispute, which is testimony to the lack of trust of their system designers in their own system capabilities.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Future of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782201

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