Giveth Team Compensation and Expenses - July 2025

July 2025

Details

Contributor compensation and expenses for July 2025 were paid partly from the Giveth Treasury and partly covered out-of-pocket by Griff in stable tokens. This post serves to document and acknowledge those payments.

Note that there were no GIV tokens are being requested to reimburse Griff.

Breakdown of Payments:

  • From Giveth Treasury: $24,712.35
  • Covered by Griff: $11,129.07
    Total: $35,841.42

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 10.00
Ali 118.50
Alireza 160.17
Almond 72.00
Amanda 1.25
Amin 9.00
Anamarija 12.00
Anna 13.97
Ashley 80.10
Carlos 151.00
Cherik 56.64**
Cotabe 39.58
Freshelle 34.50
Giantkin 30.00
Griff 26.00
Jake 80.00
Kay 60.00
Kkechy 167.05
Kristina 93.02
Latifat 1.00
Lauren 56.17
Maryjaf 160.00
Meriem 1.75
Mitch 134.50
Moeshehab 10.00
Pedro 28.00
Ramin 10.00
Shyne 12.78
Skayaz 0.50
William 8.25
Yegor 60.18

**contributor who has claimed their PTO hrs

Spending Details

Total Compensation for the month 55,080.64
Less: Cost of Giveth in GM 4,284.91
Giveth Compensation Cost 50,795.73
Add: Expenses 841.17
Total Cost for the month 51,636.90

General Magic <> Giveth Accounting

Summary

Description Amount
GM contributors working in Giveth $14,704.32
Less: Giveth contributors working in GM $4,284.91
Net amount Giveth to pay GM $10,419.41

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

General Magic Credit Balance

As previously mentioned in this post, below is the updated credit balance of GM as of July:

Description Amount
Credit Balance as of 31 Jun 2025 $17,047.16
Less: Giveth payment to GM - Jul 2025 $10,419.41
Less: Subscriptions share - Jul 2025 $136.17
Credit Balance as of 31 July 2025 $6,491.58

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 - $44,581.73
  • GIV Compensation - $1,014.01/ 506,770.89 GIV
  • GIV Price at time of distribution - $0.00200092
  • GIV Price via Coingecko Aug 18, 2025, 17:54:59 GMT+8

GIV Equity Distribution

Following the recently approved equity distribution plan, we distributed $3,366.25 worth of GIV tokens as equity to the contributors who opted to partially receive their monthly compensation in $GIV tokens.

Month July 2025
Equity distribution in USD $506.25
GIV Price at time of distribution $0.00200092
GIV Price via Coingecko Aug 18, 2025, 17:54:59 GMT+8
Total GIV sent for Distribution 253,010.11
Transaction Link *to be updated

Working Group Cost Breakdown

WG Cost for the Month in USD
DApp WG 31,658.79
DAO Ops WG 2,126.72
Quadratic Funding (QF) WG 5,978.53
GIVeconomy WG 2,198.03
Fundraising WG 8,047.39
Giveth Business Development 547.94
QACC 238.33
Total Giveth Compensation Cost 50,795.73

*Note: There is a $0.13 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) - 156.12 USD
  • Copilot Github (shared subscription with GM - DApp WG) - 19.95 USD
  • BD Win Commission - Stellar QF Sponsorship (QF WG) - 665.10 USD