Open ENS DAO's treasury wallet on Etherscan (`0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7`) https://etherscan.io/address/0xFe89cc7aBB2C4183683ab71653C4cdc9B02D44b7#tokentxns .

You can see every contributor payment: $9,863 USDC/day streamed to 9 stewards via Superfluid, exact amounts, exact addresses. Go to MakerDAO governance: "Flip Flop Flap Delegate LLC received 12,000 DAI" at `0x688d508f...`. Their landlord, their ex, a competitor can see exactly what they earned.

This is the default for every DAO paying contributors today. Gitcoin, Nouns, Bankless, Lido, all public. Gitcoin literally ran a public "Contributor Compensation Audit" because 95% of their $5M multisig spending is contributor pay and it was all visible on-chain. (https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/contributor-compensation-audit/12750 )

Veil Protocol fixes this -> It runs confidential payroll for DAOs using 6 Chainlink capabilities:

1. CRE Runtime orchestrates the payroll pipeline (cron trigger, on-chain reads, tx submission)

2. CRE Secrets protects treasury private keys inside TEE (node operators never see them)

3. Confidential HTTP fetches encrypted payroll data (recipient addresses + amounts invisible to network)

4. ACE (Confidential Compute) executes private token transfers with hidden sender identity and shielded recipient addresses

5. Data Feeds provides token prices for USD budget validation

The on-chain footprint is minimal: batch type, total amount, recipient count, and a Merkle root. Individual amounts and recipient addresses never touch the public chain. But any contributor can verify their own payment was included using a Merkle proof, without revealing anyone else's salary.

Real ACE transactions executed:

- `019ccfc9-b000-75f3-9d3f-9fe7261ca4a1` (3 LINK to Alice, sender HIDDEN)

- `019ccfc9-b14b-773c-ba60-521fdbfa8d48` (2 LINK to Bob, sender HIDDEN)

- 10+ historical transfers with `is_sender_hidden: true`

- Withdrawal ticket hash: `0x2778dd11a02674bee58b29470dbea2fb260a621cdbd549b314c01fe1486e076b`

All verified against ACE vault `0xE588a6c73933BFD66Af9b4A07d48bcE59c0D2d13` on Sepolia (526+ transactions).