Digital Cities
From Babylon to Boston, cities have always been hubs of economic growth and cultural activity. Bringing people from around the world to cohabitate, explore new ideas, and transact in new ways. Often, these cities are shaped by technological change – whether it be the discovery of new resources (giving rise to early trade routes and ports in ancient Babylon) or the capturing of new power sources (birthing factories of the Industrial Revolution in Boston) – the history of cities is a history of...
Digital Cities
From Babylon to Boston, cities have always been hubs of economic growth and cultural activity. Bringing people from around the world to cohabitate, explore new ideas, and transact in new ways. Often, these cities are shaped by technological change – whether it be the discovery of new resources (giving rise to early trade routes and ports in ancient Babylon) or the capturing of new power sources (birthing factories of the Industrial Revolution in Boston) – the history of cities is a history of...
Orca Protocol is now Metropolis
We’re excited to share that Orca Protocol is rebranding to Metropolis and opening up pod beta access to a select group of DAOs.DAOs as CitiesMany have likened DAOs to companies. But in their potential, DAOs are a lot more like cities. Burgeoning hubs of economic and cultural activity, cities bring together people, cultures, and resources to cohabitate, connect, and depend on one another. These interdependent and interconnected networks create conditions for emergence, which allows cities to t...
Orca Protocol is now Metropolis
We’re excited to share that Orca Protocol is rebranding to Metropolis and opening up pod beta access to a select group of DAOs.DAOs as CitiesMany have likened DAOs to companies. But in their potential, DAOs are a lot more like cities. Burgeoning hubs of economic and cultural activity, cities bring together people, cultures, and resources to cohabitate, connect, and depend on one another. These interdependent and interconnected networks create conditions for emergence, which allows cities to t...
Evolutionary Organizations
This article was originally posted under Orca Protocol on orca.mirror.xyz.Written by Chase Chapman (@chaserchapman) 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, i...
Evolutionary Organizations
This article was originally posted under Orca Protocol on orca.mirror.xyz.Written by Chase Chapman (@chaserchapman) 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, i...
The Bull Case for Pods
This article was originally posted as Orca Protocol on orca.mirror.xyz.Written by Chase Chapman (@chaserchapman) 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...
The Bull Case for Pods
This article was originally posted as Orca Protocol on orca.mirror.xyz.Written by Chase Chapman (@chaserchapman) 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...
Scaling Trust in DAOs: Trustware vs Socialware
We previously posted this article as Orca Protocol on orca.mirror.xyz.Written by frogmonkee (@frogmonkee), Chase Chapman (@chaserchapman), Julia Rosenberg (@JulzRoze) and John Sterlacci (@johnsterlacci) 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...
Scaling Trust in DAOs: Trustware vs Socialware
We previously posted this article as Orca Protocol on orca.mirror.xyz.Written by frogmonkee (@frogmonkee), Chase Chapman (@chaserchapman), Julia Rosenberg (@JulzRoze) and John Sterlacci (@johnsterlacci) 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...
