As described in the Gro DAO OKR guidance, at the end of an OKR cycle, pods must conduct self-assessments to evaluate performance against OKRs, celebrate achievements, and plan and improve for the future.

Assessment

The screenshot above illustrates the Panda Pod’s overall performance against their OKRs (as outlined in the Gro DAO OKR guidance). Objectives 2 was “delivered” while objectives 1, 3, 4 “made progress but fell short of completion”. Overall we delivered on 145% of the 100% OKRs due to the delivery of strategy research above our OKR target.

Cycle 2 OKRs

See Panda Pod’s cycle 2 OKRs here.

Commentary

Learnings that will be taken forward into the Panda Pod 2nd OKR Cycle:

• We encountered issues in the broader DeFi ecosystem that were outside our control, specifically when Multichain experienced a key person risk event, causing us to have to choose a different bridging product to avoid relying on the compromised one we had already integrated with.
• While engineering took time, the product side of Panda pod spent much of our time looking for strategies, successfully creating a list of 9 strategies and writing in-depth research into 3 of them (crvUSD pools, lvUSD, stargate) leading to over delivery on those metrics

In this second term, these unforseen events, including lvUSD product having material TVL reductions soon after we completed our research, caused us to have to discard or be unable to realize the value of some of the work that we accomplished. However, we were able to turn this into positives as we focused our time and efforts on things that we could control.