About

Giveth is onboarding real-world impact projects to web3 by empowering them with free access to novel fundraising mechanisms and new ecosystems of donors, while inspiring them to dive deeper down the blockchain rabbit hole.

Giveth.io is an open-source, radically transparent, user-friendly donation platform that allows anyone to open crypto funding portals by creating projects for positive impact, with zero added fees and no intermediaries. Donors are also rewarded for giving to a wide range of projects that cover for-good ventures such as feeding the homeless, funding community currency projects, and promoting planetary well-being.

How Giveth Works

Giveth goes beyond “just donations” with the following features:

• GIVbacks - Donors who give to verified public goods projects have a chance to win up to 500,000 GIV. This fun means of rewarding donors is a decentralized and borderless way of incentivizing donations.

• GIVpower - Donors can lock their GIV tokens for GIVpower and use them to boost/curate projects on the platform. Projects with more GIVpower give their donors greater chances of winning the GIVbacks raffles. Top-boosted projects also appear higher on Giveth!

• Quadratic Funding - The democratic matching program popularized by Gitcoin is also available on Giveth! Projects and donors enjoy multi-chain donation rounds with an easy and streamlined user experience.

• Quadratic Acceleration (q/acc) - A novel funding mechanism combining Quadratic Funding with Augmented Bonding Curves, allowing projects to launch tokens with built-in liquidity. Supporters receive tokens for their contributions, quadratic matching builds secondary market liquidity, and projects gain a sustainable revenue stream, earning a % of every token mint or burn.

Who uses Giveth

Currently, over 6,300 projects have raised donations from over 28,000+ donor addresses on Giveth.

Projects that want to advance to the next level can get “Verified” and apply to be part of our GIVbacks program by providing information about their impact history and the reputation at stake.

All-time Achievements

Public goods should thrive without gatekeepers, and our platform is proof that grassroots funding models work!

Since 2017, Giveth has:

✅ Hosted 11 Quadratic Funding rounds, mobilizing over $586,000 in matching pools and $350,000 in crowdfunded donations, fueling the growth of hundreds of impactful projects.

✅ Facilitated over $4 million in total donations, spanning 100,000+ transactions, directly onboarding 6300+ new projects into the Web3 ecosystem.

✅ Expanded multi-chain support, allowing donations on Ethereum Mainnet, Gnosis Chain, Optimism, Polygon, Polygon zkEVM, Ethereum Classic, Arbitrum, Base, Celo, Solana, and Stellar, making public goods funding more accessible than ever.

Updates From the Last Quarter

• ENS x Octant Public Goods QF Round (March 18 - April 1) With an 80,000 USDC matching pool on Optimism, this round on Giveth supports impact-driven projects focused on infrastructure, utility, and web3 education.

• Loving on Public Goods QF Round (January 28 - February 14) In February 2025 we supported 129 incredible public goods projects with a 100,000 $USDGLO matching pool. The round closed with $53,761 from 3,773 donations contributed by 862 unique donors.

• Pioneering AI Agents for DAO Coordination & Funding: Giveth contributors embarked on an AI-powered experiment, building innovative agents that will lay the foundation for AI Agent DAOs. Some examples include:

  • WatchDAOer: acts as an on-chain governance consultant, helping DAOs structure proposals, execute transactions, and navigate governance workflows.
  • GovPal: keeps DAO delegates and contributors informed by tracking key governance decisions, ensuring they never miss a critical vote.
  • Grant Wizard (Grantolf): scans the web3 public goods landscape, surfacing relevant funding opportunities for projects.

• Simplified GIV Token Distribution and Governance – We’re formalized a shift in Giveth governance where GIVpower holders control the treasury of GIV through on-chain governance in Snapshot. We’ve also provided an update on the status of each GIV-focused initiative proposal by the DAO at the launch of the GIVeconomy.

• Giveth x PoolTogether - Through our partnership with PoolTogether, donors can now support public goods projects while having a chance to win ETH—without risking their initial deposit. By depositing tokens into the Giveth Vault, 33% of the yield funds impact projects, while the remaining 67% goes into a prize pool, giving participants a chance to win ETH prizes while making a positive impact.

• Integrating Devouch for Decentralized Project Verification - We’ve improved our verification process to allow for reputable community members to have their say in legitimizing projects. The “Giveth Verifiers” attestor group (which includes members of Metacartel, ENS, Optimism, Octant and more) can use devouch to attest to trusting a project on-chain. Now, projects with 3 attestations from verifiers, get labeled as “Verified” on the Giveth platform and gain access to benefits like GIVpower and specific QF rounds.

• Recurring donations on Base - We expanded our Superfluid integration to allow people to “set it and forget”, creating streaming donations to their favourite projects on Base. Users of Giveth recurring donations benefit further from opportunities like GIVbacks raffle rewards, and SUP airdrop boosts.

Upcoming Goals - Under Research

The following is a list of new products and features that we have on our roadmap in the near and long term.

• Bitcoin: Integrate Bitcoin to allow donors and projects to use Bitcoin for crowdfunding - enabling access to new audiences holding 56% of the total crypto market cap.

• Donation Handler Smart Contract: Build infrastructure so that all donations pass through smart contracts, enabling custom logic to be added on top of donations made on Giveth in an on-chain and transparent way.

• GIVeconomy UX: Improve the UX design of the GIVeconomy to make it easier for users to understand project curation & donor rewards.

• Recurring Donations UX: Improve the design of recurring (streaming) donations to make it easier for donors to “set it and forget it”.

• Cause-Focused AI Agent DAO: An initiative leveraging AI-driven governance to enhance funding allocation for public goods. Using a bonding curve model and DAO treasury, it will process community feedback, automate donations, and optimize marketing efforts for a sustainable token demand and efficient capital distribution.

Giveth is a completely free donation platform that charges no fees from donors or projects to use our platform. Our sources of funding are predominantly public goods funding mechanisms, direct donations & grants, so if you want to support the Future of Giving, please consider supporting us!

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