Orca Protocol is now Metropolis
Orca Protocol is rebranding to Metropolis and opening up pod beta access to a select group of DAOs. This rebrand is to match our identity to what we see as the most promising potential for DAOs — a rich landscape of interconnected and interdependent organizations — a Metropolis. To learn more, read the full announcement on the Metropolis Mirror. Please visit our new site metropolis.space and @0xMetropolis on twitter.
Orca Protocol is now Metropolis
Orca Protocol is rebranding to Metropolis and opening up pod beta access to a select group of DAOs. This rebrand is to match our identity to what we see as the most promising potential for DAOs — a rich landscape of interconnected and interdependent organizations — a Metropolis. To learn more, read the full announcement on the Metropolis Mirror. Please visit our new site metropolis.space and @0xMetropolis on twitter.
Evolutionary Organizations
Being wrong often is the only way to be right – especially when you’re dealing with complex systems. This – in a nutshell – is the evolutionary organization thesis. Premature optimization is a sin when it comes to building software and it’s the best way to stunt learning and growth in DAOs.The Risks of Premature OptimizationPremature optimization isn’t just expensive up-front, it’s also costly in the long run. When you design systems that try to anticipate how complex organizations will act, ...
Evolutionary Organizations
Being wrong often is the only way to be right – especially when you’re dealing with complex systems. This – in a nutshell – is the evolutionary organization thesis. Premature optimization is a sin when it comes to building software and it’s the best way to stunt learning and growth in DAOs.The Risks of Premature OptimizationPremature optimization isn’t just expensive up-front, it’s also costly in the long run. When you design systems that try to anticipate how complex organizations will act, ...
The Bull Case for Pods
The atomic unit of a DAO isn’t people or projects – it’s small groups of people working together. While there has been a push to atomize work through bounties and other ways of defining and compensating work, the fact remains: DAOs are groups of humans coordinating together to solve problems. We see this through the emergence of workstreams, working groups, guilds, or whatever else you choose to call the small teams that make up almost every DAO.Pods 101At Orca, we use a singular name for the...
The Bull Case for Pods
The atomic unit of a DAO isn’t people or projects – it’s small groups of people working together. While there has been a push to atomize work through bounties and other ways of defining and compensating work, the fact remains: DAOs are groups of humans coordinating together to solve problems. We see this through the emergence of workstreams, working groups, guilds, or whatever else you choose to call the small teams that make up almost every DAO.Pods 101At Orca, we use a singular name for the...
Scaling Trust in DAOs: Trustware vs Socialware
In the past few decades, our trust in institutions has begun to erode:When government officials lied about invading Iraq, we lost trust in our representatives.When banks lied about the creditworthiness of mortgage backed securities, we lost trust in our financial institutions.When news outlets began to report false information, we lost our ability to trust credible news media.Trust is the cornerstone of any organized society, from student clubs to governments. If we cannot be assured that our...
Scaling Trust in DAOs: Trustware vs Socialware
In the past few decades, our trust in institutions has begun to erode:When government officials lied about invading Iraq, we lost trust in our representatives.When banks lied about the creditworthiness of mortgage backed securities, we lost trust in our financial institutions.When news outlets began to report false information, we lost our ability to trust credible news media.Trust is the cornerstone of any organized society, from student clubs to governments. If we cannot be assured that our...
DAO Delegates: Misunderstood and Misused
IntroductionMetagovernance has become an increasingly popular topic within the DAO ecosystem over the last several months. It is commonly defined as holding one DAO’s token in order to influence decisions in another DAO(s). The benefits of metagovernance are clear - DAO2DAO relationships are positive-sum incentive-alignment mechanisms that amplify the voices of individuals. Some recent proof points of the swift maturation of metagovernance knowledge and practices include:DAO2DAO product annou...
DAO Delegates: Misunderstood and Misused
IntroductionMetagovernance has become an increasingly popular topic within the DAO ecosystem over the last several months. It is commonly defined as holding one DAO’s token in order to influence decisions in another DAO(s). The benefits of metagovernance are clear - DAO2DAO relationships are positive-sum incentive-alignment mechanisms that amplify the voices of individuals. Some recent proof points of the swift maturation of metagovernance knowledge and practices include:DAO2DAO product annou...
