# DAO Capabilities Many of you are probably wondering what actually happens in a DAO, so we'll get into the features of the Colony software and see what it's capable of. It's important to note that what a DAO can do and what a DAO is *capable of doing* are kind of two different things. A guitar is a musical instrument that makes sounds, that's what it does... But it might take hearing BB King play to really *understand what a guitar is capable of*. The DAO evaluates votes and issues transactions. What we do with it, what *we're* capable of... that's where the magic is. **Current Colony Capabilities** * Members can join (with or without tokens) * Tokens can be minted * Teams can be created * Teams can be given funding * Tokens can be sent to an external address * Simple payments for work already completed * Tokens that are sent to an external address are locked as non-transferrable by default, and will be unlocked when voting becomes available. This can only be done once. * The vault can receive tokens from anyone who sends them **Future Colony Capabilities** * Create proposals * Vote on proposals * Challenge proposals that are about to pass * Earn Reputation within the Colony * Vote to remove someone's reputation by "smiting" them for bad behavior * Sell tokens via the "Coin Machine" feature * Create a pot of rewards to be paid out * Setup recurring payments * Put the colony into recovery mode in case of an emergency (an outside attack for example) * Interact with external smart contracts --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://donald-dao.gitbook.io/donald-dao/guides/dao-capabilities.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.