Giveth Team Compensation and Expenses - December 2025

Details

This forum post confirms and documents the monthly compensation payments for all contributors for the month of December 2025.

Breakdown of Payments: Amount
Total Compensation 50,407.48
Less: GM in Giveth 26,334.89
Add: Expenses paid from treasury 100.00
Total amount covered by Griff 23,300.00
Total amount paid from Treasury 1,922.59

Internal charges between Giveth and General Magic (GM) are not included in the figures above and will be discussed in detail below.

Team Information

Name Hours
Algene 4.00
Ali 150.12
Alireza 3.00
Amanda 40.00
Anamarija 108.22
Ashley 109.35
Cotabe 81.75
Freshelle 59.50
Gardner 32.00
Giantkin 30.00
Griff* 149.00
Jake 160.00
Kay 82.00
Kkechy 160.00
Lauren 74.03
Mahdi 141.75
Maryjaf 160.00
Mitch 2.00
Mo 7.67
Ramin 160.00
Rodrigo 102.43
Sem fixed
Shyne 19.55
Yegor 36.92
Youssef 12.00

*unpaid hrs

Spending Details

Total Compensation for the month 65,407.48
Less: Cost of Giveth in GM 468.06
Giveth Compensation Cost 59,939.42
Add: Expenses 1,261.20
Total Cost for the month 61,200.62

General Magic <> Giveth Accounting

Summary

Description Amount
GM contributors working in Giveth $26,334.89
Less: Giveth contributors working in GM $468.06
Amount Giveth to pay GM $25,866.83
Add: Subscriptions share - Dec 2025 $73.20
Net amount Giveth payable to GM - Dec 2025 $25,940.03

No mark-up was applied for GM contributors working in Giveth. The amounts charged are all at cost.

Compensation Breakdown

This month, contributors had the option to receive compensation partially in stable tokens and in GIV. Here’s the breakdown of the totals (adjusted amounts):

  • Stable Compensation - $48,937.82
  • GIV Compensation - $1,001.60 / 955,069.03 GIV
  • GIV Price at time of distribution - $0.00104872
  • GIV Price via Coingecko Jan 13, 2026, 08 04:01 GMT+8

GIV Equity Distribution

Following the recently approved equity distribution plan, we distributed $501.60 worth of GIV tokens as equity to the contributors who opted to partially receive their monthly compensation in $GIV tokens.

Month December 2025
Equity distribution in USD $501.60
GIV Price at time of distribution $0.00104872
GIV Price via Coingecko Jan 13, 2026, 08 04:01 GMT+8
Total GIV sent for Distribution 478,297.35
Transaction Link *link here

Working Group Cost Breakdown

WG Cost for the Month in USD
DApp WG 30,622.58
DAO Ops WG 2,168.24
Quadratic Funding (QF) WG 1,703.48
GIVeconomy WG 2,130.17
Fundraising WG 7,544.86
Giveth Business Development 762.68
The DAO Security Fund 15,007.41
Total Giveth Compensation Cost 59,939.42

*Note: There is a $0.35 difference in Clockify vs. actual amount paid due to rounding off differences.

Here’s a month-by-month breakdown of expenses for 2025

Summary report links:

  • Breakdown of costs per WG can be found here.
  • Breakdown of WG hours per contributor and description can be found here.

Expenses

This batch of payments includes some expenses incurred during the month. These are the details:

  • Clockify (shared subscription with GM - DAO Ops WG) - 92.20 USD
  • Copilot Github (shared subscription with GM - DApp WG) - 19 USD
  • Giveth fund distribution (150 POL) - 100 USD
  • White Hat (PC) payment (TheDAO expenses) - 1,050 USD