Editing DAO (section)

=== Transparency ===
Transparency means the functions of the DAO are publicly observable. In particular, the types of technology used, the specifications for the design of the technology, the membership, the actual rate and quantity of computations or transactions, the protocols for acceptable transactions, protocols for policing transactions, the protocols for changing protocols, and even the culture of decision making, can all be made more or less transparent in any network. Inasmuch as knowledge is limited to certain individuals, when transparency is limited in any way, power becomes centralized among the subpopulation of the DAO which has the knowledge. Thus transparency is correlated with openness and power decentralization in DAOs. However, transparency is a major threat to members’ privacy, which is ameliorated when the DAO supports pseudonymity.