--- tags: magesmiths --- # Orca Protocol human centric DAO protocol **Pods** flexible modular dao primitive - small working groups w/ governance around people - multisig with conditional membership - permissioning and accountability mechanisms key thing is having small working groups of people ==> click them together to build larger organizations anything more than a group of 10 people things beome loud and uncoordinated - Pod = easier DAO spinup - pods have seats that are available to be claimed pods have rulemaking abilities ==> rules are conditions that pod members must meet to be in order to be a member - completely custom rules and requirements - eg have to hold certain tokens or NFTs pods will likely keep a pretty flat structure * 1 membership = 1 vote hierarchy will form inter-pod. hierarchies of pods layer pods together and delegate responsibilities and rule-making to different layers - composability of different working groups - composability of people Orca itself is a team of 8 people originally wanted to be DAO first and avoid the progressive decentralization process - were going to bootstrap their own org and fundraising but went the more traditional route goal is still to dogfood their own product, w/ pods and community control etc. **community building** lots of meme creation figuring out how to turn community energy into actual work trying to stay unopinionated about how pods deal with individual roles and how formal they want to get - compared with previous dao implementations that have been prescriptive all built around gnosis safe the concept of joining a pod is very simple way for people think about things. basically like joining a team. much easier - NFT is your membership to a pod how can we give people who don't have ownership control? bubbles in space floating around in space; some coming together; some within each other; some independent ## Spencer's initial take - they have really good branding and meme potential, both conceptual and visual - Orca - Pod - Ocean - Swimming - Orca might be the closest competitor to what we're trying to do - focus on humans in small teams - focus on composability of small teams - permissioned membership - flexible membership eligibility - Where DAOhaus is better - Organic, distributed development and community ==> better dogfooding and faster learning cycles - moloch daos support weighted membership - Where Orca is (currently) better - more explicit connections and interoperability between pods - connections to VCs and thotleaders and influencers - meme is easier for potential users to understand