Voteagora

Agora (operating under the voteagora GitHub organization and the domains voteagora.com and agora.xyz) develops end-to-end onchain governance software for blockchain protocols and DAOs. Its core product is a governor contract built on the OpenZeppelin governor standard, paired with a hosted governance application that supports proposal creation, delegation, voting, and community forums. The company positions the product as deployable without protocol teams writing custom code.

The platform is modular: customers can start with a basic deployment and add features including role management (controlling who may propose, veto or execute specific functions), delegation tooling for large token holders, proposal types that apply different processes to low- and high-stakes actions, gasless voting and proposing via relays, multiple-choice proposals, security council multisigs, dual governance for multiple stakeholder groups, proposal sponsorship, staked-token voting, optimistic proposals, transaction simulation, a public API, and Snapshot and Discourse integrations. The application is multi-tenant, with per-DAO instance configuration covering contracts, UI theme and feature flags, and it integrates Ethereum Attestation Service for verified delegate attestations.

Agora's public repositories include agora-governor (core governor contracts), agora-next (the onchain governance app), optimism-governor (contracts for the Optimism Governor), op-atlas, dao-node (an in-RAM data model service for DAO apps), ERC20VotesPartialDelegationUpgradeable, and documentation and tooling repos; the organization lists 46 public repositories.

Founding story

The GitHub organization README describes a founding team drawn from open source, economic research and public-protocol backgrounds who converged on Ethereum around goals of better incentives, public-goods funding and coordination, and who started Agora out of a conviction that Ethereum could be more expansive and people-centric.

Business model

Agora sells governance software to protocols and DAOs across three tiers: Pro, aimed at communities getting started with one-click deployment; Enterprise, a customizable framework for larger protocols, priced by quote; and Custom, where teams self-deploy the open-source code. Pricing is not published; prospective Pro and Enterprise customers are directed to contact sales.

Commercial tiers (Pro and quoted Enterprise engagements) alongside a freely forkable open-source codebase; no pricing figures are disclosed publicly.

Traction

The website reports more than 800,000 votes cast on Agora governor contracts and over 103,000 monthly users. Named governance deployments include Optimism (vote.optimism.io), ENS (agora.ensdao.org), Uniswap (vote.uniswapfoundation.org), Derive (gov.derive.xyz), Ether.fi (vote.ether.fi), Cyber, Xai, B3 and Scroll (listed as coming soon); the GitHub profile also cites Nouns and Lyra. Repository configuration references additional tenant instances including Boost, Linea and Protocol Guild. Testimonials come from Optimism's Head of Governance, the Uniswap Foundation's Executive Director, a Derive co-founder and Ether.fi's CEO, the last of whom cites Agora's role in a campaign redistributing 8M+ UNI to Uniswap delegates (attributed to Uniswap Foundation).

Latest developments

Public GitHub activity shows continued development across the governance app (agora-next), the Agora Governor contracts, OP Atlas, a Common Proposal Listing Service (cpls), holders.vote webhook reference clients, and Civic contracts, with repository updates logged into 2026. A Scroll governance deployment is listed as coming soon.