Confidential Payout Evidence Packet

Purpose

This packet exists for the confidential-governance and privacy-commercial corridors inside PrivateDAO.

It answers one practical reviewer question:

Can PrivateDAO already connect private governance to a believable confidential payout workflow?

Short answer

Yes, on Devnet and inside the current evidence boundary.

PrivateDAO already supports:

• private governance framing
• commit-reveal voting
• confidential treasury motion rehearsal
• reviewer-visible trust and custody packets
• security and privacy surfaces that explain why confidentiality matters operationally

It does not yet claim:

• real-funds production payout readiness
• closed source-verifiable settlement receipts
• external audit completion

What works now

Governance to treasury corridor

The product can already tell a coherent operational story:

1. create DAO
2. create proposal
3. private vote
4. finalize decision
5. execute governed treasury motion

Reviewer-visible payout context

• security route: /security
• services route: /services
• custody route: /custody
• grant committee pack: /documents/grant-committee-pack
• launch trust packet: /documents/launch-trust-packet

Why this matters commercially

Confidential payout is not just a privacy demo.

It maps directly to:

• payroll approvals
• contributor disbursements
• grant committee releases
• high-sensitivity treasury motions

The product value is the combination of:

• confidentiality
• governance legitimacy
• reviewer-visible trust boundaries

Strongest reviewer path

1. Open /security
2. Open /services
3. Open /custody
4. Open /documents/grant-committee-pack
5. Open /documents/launch-trust-packet

What judges should see

• a practical confidential payout use case
• reviewer-visible explanation of where privacy sits in the workflow
• clear release-boundary visibility before any production or real-funds claim

Current release boundary

This packet proves confidential payout rehearsal and reviewer-visible evidence on Devnet.

It does not prove:

• production payout custody
• production-ready confidential settlement
• closed external audit and receipt requirements

Public-good value

This packet helps the ecosystem because it makes:

• private-yet-reviewable payout flows easier to understand
• governance-linked payout discipline easier to inspect
• complex privacy and cryptography behavior easier to verify from a product shell instead of a research memo

Canonical linked docs

• docs/grant-committee-pack.md
• docs/launch-trust-packet.generated.md
• docs/mainnet-blockers.md
• docs/cryptographic-confidence-engine.md
• docs/zk-capability-matrix.md
• docs/refhe-security-model.md
• docs/frontier-integrations.generated.md