One week after the collective resignation: Aragon One CEO Jorge Izquierdo announces his resignation

Today, Aragon One CEO Jorge Izquierdo announced his resignation. Aragon One is a profitable company located in Switzerland, composed of the founding members of the Aragon team, responsible for the development and operation of the project.

Izquierdo mentioned that during his illness, the Aragon Association (responsible for managing the funds obtained from the Aragon token sale) made some governance decisions that he could not agree with. After fighting to no avail, he felt that he could not continue to do the job.

The following is the resignation statement issued by Izquierdo on Twitter:

“Today, I resigned as CEO of Aragon One.

Leading this team is the honor and adventure of my life, and I am extremely proud of what we have achieved.

I feel sad at this point, but considering the next situation, I don’t think I can continue to do this job well.

After a few months of busy work, under the advice of a doctor, I took a complete rest for two weeks.

When I was away, the Aragon Association made a series of decisions (mainly to modify its governance), and I did not agree with these decisions and the process by which these decisions occurred.

Someone has put forward several suggestions to solve this problem, but no one wants to restore or modify these decisions and actions.

Therefore, nothing has actually changed. This prompted the team to leave, which is why I resigned.

Despite leaving Aragon One, I will still be active in the Aragon community. I am still a member of the Aragon Association, and I will continue to work hard to guide it in the right direction by any means necessary to promote true decentralization as soon as possible.

To all my team members: Thank you for your so much love for this project and for doing so well under such principled circumstances. I have learned a lot from you. You are like a school. I know that these weeks have been very difficult, and I have a deep respect for all you have done.

To the Aragon community: I really hope that we can overcome this difficulty and Aragon can maintain its prosperity. Thank you for your support over the years. Your petition for greater transparency and voice in the association’s decisions will not be ignored, and I will continue to promote it.

Finally, this is part of what I wrote to the association as the last attempt to stop this behavior.

Izquierdo emphasized: Aragon’s goal should be to “fight for the Internet”, and the Internet platform should be owned by users; we should use this technology as a liberating tool to release all the goodwill and creativity of mankind, not as a kind of Tools to enslave others and use each other. )

The idea we want to achieve when building Aragon is far more important than myself, the association and even the Aragon project.

Even today, I want to achieve this goal quickly and live in the future as soon as possible. Let us achieve this goal together. (Letter stop)”

Less than a week ago, 11 employees of Aragon Network (Aragon’s DAO) announced their collective resignation. The reason given was the lack of financial transparency. Their decision to resign was made after John Light issued an open letter.

John Light has worked for the Aragon Association for 3 years. He mentioned in a letter on GitHub:

“I no longer recognize this job that I once loved. I think it no longer reflects my values, nor is it the values ​​that Aragon has always promoted.”

At the end of this letter, Light asked the association to disclose all meeting minutes and financial status for public review.

It is reported that before this large-scale departure, 52,000 of the ETH raised by the project through the 2017 s coin sale were transferred to multiple exchanges, some of which were exchanged for other cryptocurrencies, especially USDT. It is not clear whether this is related to collective resignation.

At that time, a community member asked about the whereabouts of the funds on Discord. Luis Cuende, the co-founder of the Aragon Association, stated that the funds transfer was for “diversified investment.”

Joe Charlesworth, Executive Director of the Aragon Association said:

“Although it makes me sad to see these people resign, some disagreements are inevitable on the road to building Aragon, or any project related to this. The Aragon Association is valuable for funding third-party groups such as Aragon One. Work proudly. However, fundamentally, Aragon is more important than any individual or organization.”

Regarding the collective resignation, Izquierdo also made a comment:

“Now I just want to say that I have a deep respect for all the members of the Aragon One team. Their departure has suffered the most terrible consequences. You are Aragon. There is no substitute for losing you.”

At this point, the story returns to the beginning of this article. After just 5 days, Izquierdo announced that the struggle had failed and resigned. It is difficult for us to know what happened. But what we know is that decentralized governance still has a long way to go. After all, once it has a relationship with funds and interests, it is inevitable from above.