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Agora

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Agora builds a governance platform for crypto protocols, enabling onchain community coordination around protocol upgrades and ecosystem funding. The platform serves protocol communities like Optimism, ENS, Uniswap, and Nouns.

Also known as Agora (agora.xyz) · voteagora

Founders & leadership

YZYitong Zhang
Yitong ZhangFounder
JK
Jarrah KandehFounder
NVNick van Eck
Nick van EckFounderAngel30 Under 30 2026
BM
Bar MorFounder
CF
Charlie FengFounder
DE
Drake EvansFounder
JM
Joe McGradyFounder
KF
Kent FenwickFounder
LD
Lior DolinskiFounder
NK
Noam KahanFounder
TZ
Tony ZhaoFounder

Investors · 19

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$50M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2024–2025

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Agora provides an end-to-end governance platform for crypto protocols, allowing teams to deploy a governance system without writing code. Its core component is the Agora governor, a smart contract framework based on the OpenZeppelin (OZ) governor standard, extended with modular features. Advertised capabilities include gasless voting and proposing via Agora relays, multiple-choice proposals, security council controls that let a multisig block or execute certain functions, dual governance for multiple stakeholder groups, proposal sponsorship, staking-token support, optimistic proposals, transaction simulation, role management for proposing/vetoing/executing, delegation tooling for large tokenholders, proposal types that apply different processes to low- and high-stakes actions, an API, and Snapshot and Discourse integrations.

The company positions the product as supporting progressive decentralization: documentation recommends starting with restrictive configurations (high proposal thresholds, manager-gated proposals) and incrementally opening access and expanding the scope of onchain actions. Agora supports integrating an existing ERC20 or NFT token or deploying a new one, and offers an Agora Token Launch product covering a MiCA-compliant ICO route and soft, hard, and mixed token-claim mechanics. The governor contracts are distributed via the public voteagora/agora-governor GitHub repository and deployed with Foundry.

Agora's stated mission, per its About page, is to build tooling for at-scale onchain collaboration and administration of the commons on Ethereum, framed around funding public goods and coordination. Named community deployments include vote.optimism.io, agora.ensdao.org, vote.uniswapfoundation.org, gov.derive.xyz, vote.ether.fi, gov.cyber.co, gov.xai.games, gov.b3.fun, and gov.scroll.io (the last marked "coming soon").

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Frequently asked questions

What does Agora do?
Agora is an open-source, end-to-end onchain governance platform used by crypto protocol communities such as Optimism, ENS and Uniswap.
Who founded Agora?
Agora was founded by Yitong Zhang, Jarrah Kandeh.
Who are Agora's investors?
Agora's investors include Aleph, AlphaLab Capital, Caladan, Dragonfly, Hack VC, Haun Ventures, Insight Partners, Liam Horne and 11 more.
How much funding has Agora raised?
Agora has disclosed $50M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.