Glossary
All Aragon terminology
- aragonCLI: Tool for creating, testing and publishing Aragon applications.
- aragonOS: Framework that enables flexible and upgradeable governance mechanisms by creating and assigning permissions to multiple entities.
- aragonPM: Decentralized package manager based on aragonOS that handles upgreadability of smart contracts and arbitrary data blobs, such as webapps.
- aragonPM Repository: Smart contract deployed inside aragonPM that keeps track of the versions for a package.
- aragonAPI: Standard set of APIs and specifications used to interact with aragonOS-powered contracts by handling transaction pathing, upgradeability, and contract state. Reference implementations in specific languages:
- aragonUI: Aragon-native toolkit of UI components for decentralized apps.
- Aragon client: Client to interact with aragonOS-powered decentralized organizations. It implements a signer with transaction pathing, notifications and a sandboxed environment for aragonOS-based apps using aragonAPI.
- DAO: Stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization. Here, a DAO means a set of aragonOS smart contracts.
- DAO Template: Smart contracts that can be used as templates for creating pre-configured DAOs in just one transaction.
- DAO Kit: Have been deprecated for DAO Templates.
- aragonID: aragonID is a lightweight identity system using ENS.
- Aragen: Tool that automatically generates everything that is needed to run Aragon on a local Ethereum chain.
- Aragon apps: Apps that use aragonOS, aragonAPI, and integrate inside the Aragon client.
- Access Control List (ACL) The ACL is a mapping of who has permission to execute an action in an Aragon app and who can re-grant or revoke that permission.
