Why the Outcome Gang will be a silo buster for DAOs

tl;dr: Collaboration is at the heart of Outcome.Finance. The Outcome Gang is a silo-busting gathering of OG partners and DeFi natives that are building and innovating with Outcome’s products and services. The Outcome Gang currently includes Llama, Superfluid, Orca, Gnosis Safe, Karma, SuperUMAns and UMA.

Silos restrict and prevent activity

One of the fundamental challenges facing decentralization and DAOs is dealing with silos and finding ways to collaborate effectively.

Silos impede critical thinking and block the pollination of ideas, tools and services. Anywhere you find humans organizing themselves, you find silos: within organizations, but also amongst communities and industries.

DAOs are not immune. We can’t push the Web3 experiment forward if the people in DAOs aren’t collaborating effectively or if ecosystems of DAOs are not talking together or working in concert.

When we started Outcome.Finance, we also launched the Outcome Gang, a silo-buster tailored for web3 that will make us all smarter, more collaborative and endlessly productive.

Outcome: What? Why?

Earlier this summer, Risk Labs, the team and foundation behind UMA and Across, launched Outcome.Finance. DAOs continue to have coordination pains and many continue to accept trust assumptions based on social contracts rather than smart contracts — and we’re suffering because of it.

Collaboration is at the heart of Outcome. Our optimistic DAO tooling helps to provide social coordination within DAOs to:

• Incentivize people in DAOs that have become misaligned.
• Motivate people to do their best work.
• Identify high quality talent and attitude.
• Rely on technology to align and guide DAO functions, instead of social capital and the powers of persuasion.

Outcome puts the results of human actions on-chain so DAOs can better use smart contracts to coordinate them. Outcome uses this data as the foundation for a collection of financial primitives, such as KPI options and success tokens. These primitives are available to DAOs directly but are also white labeled and offered by other protocols.

Learn more about the mission and vision of Outcome here.

Simultaneously, the Outcome Gang hit the (online) streets

The Outcome Gang is a committee or gathering of OG partners and DeFi natives that are building and innovating with Outcome’s products and services. The Outcome Gang currently includes Llama, Superfluid, Orca, Gnosis Safe, Karma, SuperUMAns and UMA.

Collaboration is the key to the Outcome Gang

We asked ourselves a question: How can we leverage a group of smart, successful web3 entrepreneurs and a coalition of communities that are building protocols and DAO tools while reducing the overall burden of total effort, tasking and time?

The answer was to establish this gang of like-minded (and different-minded) folks who can find brilliant, creative ways to fit their tools together and brainstorm solutions that Outcome’s products can be deployed for.

Some of this is basic cross-promotion. The OG will come together to discuss DAO tooling “hot topics” and to share experiences and intel on things like: better ways to onboard community members, arrange compensation, manage expenses, and facilitate great work and productivity.

The OG will also be a sounding board that can share wins, losses and frustrations while unearthing opportunities for customization or optimization.

We’re not a gang looking for rumbles. We are a benevolent group and welcoming to newcomers who share our vision for DAO domination and optimistic governance.

“The salient feature of Web3 is interoperability and as a community, we have been focusing only on interoperable data. Thanks to UMA’s Outcome Gang initiative, we can now interoperate at a human and organization level that will help accelerate the growth of DAOs and web3 in general.” — Karma

The early days of the Outcome Gang

To get started, the Outcome Gang will get together roughly once a month for a Twitter Space. Each meeting will have a specific focus or topic to discuss.

Check out this first meeting of the OG, which featured Outcome and OrcaProtocol discussing the thesis of trustware vs socialware, the potential for optimistic governance and Orca’s development of Pods — smaller groups of workstreams, working groups, guilds or teams that comprise a DAO.

Orca describes these pods as “usually governed by token holders, delegating responsibility and imbuing pods with authority to enact a certain mandate, whether that be to manage a grants program, build a product, control marketing channels, manage security”.

Generally, the audience can expect to be part of a two-team meeting that will be based on the spirit of openness and progress. You can be a fly on the wall, or you can participate by asking questions of your own.

We’re excited to break down silos in DAOs and between DAOs, while finding new opportunities for optimistic DAO tooling. To become more deeply collaborative, we’re going to have to DAO this together.