Commit timezone consistent with stated geography
Orca's assessment for RD-F-119 — scored green on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Orca team is US-based (San Francisco area context: Coursera is Mountain View CA; IDEO has SF/Tokyo offices; Solana Foundation ecosystem is US-centric). Public interviews conducted in English at US-compatible hours. No commit-timezone anomaly (DPRK UTC+9 precursor pattern) has been reported by any security researcher across the 4+ year public development history. Formal commit-hour histogram analysis was not performed in this run; assessed green based on absence of any anomaly flag in any CTI or security research publication.
Sources #
- URLMeet the Orca Team — Orca Medium (2021)https://medium.com/orca-so/meet-the-orca-team-1b116398db48retrieved 2026-05-16
- Orca Whirlpools GitHub repo (no FV spec directory found)https://github.com/orca-so/whirlpoolsretrieved 2026-05-16
Methodology #
Determine whether the distribution of commit hours in the repo is consistent with the team's publicly stated geography (anomaly flag for DPRK-precursor pattern).
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