Giveth Team Compensation and Expenses - March 2026

Details

This forum post confirms and documents the monthly compensation payments for all contributors for the month of March 2026.

Breakdown of Payments:

Description Amount
Total Paid Compensation 71,014.83
Add: Expenses 11,491.73
Total Amount Paid* 82,506.56

*These funds were disbursed from Giveth’s Treasury to account for all salaries and costs.

Giveth Costs

This is the final cost breakdown for Giveth, inclusive of all payments and adjustments:

Description Amount
Total Paid compensation 71,014.83
Add: Unpaid compensation 18,336.28
Less: Cost of Giveth contributors working in GM* 2,876.26
Total Giveth Compensation Cost 86,474.85
Add: Expenses 11,491.73
Add: Shared subscriptions with GM 355.55
Total Giveth Cost for the month of March 98,322.13*

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

Giveth Cost Centers Breakdown

Cost Centers Cost for the Month in USD
Giveth v6 27,605.60
Giveth v5 2,678.66
The DAO Security Fund 37,918.86
Fundraising and BD 3,954.13
GIVeconomy 333.71
Quadratic Funding (QF) 6,666.04
Marketing and Comms 3,303.29
Operations 4,014.56
Total Giveth Compensation Cost 86,474.85

*Note: There is a $2.35 difference in Clockify vs. actual amount paid due to rounding off differences.

General Magic <> Giveth Accounting

Intercharges between GM and Giveth:

Description Amount
Cost of Giveth contributors working in GM with shared subscriptions -2,941.15
Add: GM sent funds to Giveth 3,000.00
Credit balance, Feb 2026 44,007.00
Credit balance, Mar 2026 (Giveth to Pay) $44,065.85

Team Information

Name Hours
Algene 5.00
Ali 160.00
Alireza 114.00
Anamarija 150.18
Ashley 117.55
Cotabe 157.25
Freshelle 153.50
Giantkin 30.00
Griff* 153.00
Jake 160.00
Kay 68.00
kkechy 160.00
Lauren 90.58
Mahdi 109.50
Maryjaf 160.00
Mo 4.95
Mohamed 5.15
Ramin 160.00
Rodri 92.27
Sem 15.00

*with unpaid hours

GIV Equity Distribution

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

Month March 2026
Equity distribution in USD $501.60
GIV Price at time of distribution $0.00051261
GIV Price via Coingecko Apr 16, 2026, 18:16:44 GMT+8
Total GIV sent for Distribution 978,521.68
Transaction Link to be added once distribution is completed

Summary report links:

  • Breakdown of costs per cost center 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:

Details Amount in USD
Clockify and Copilot (shared subs with GM) 355.55
Giveth Credit Card Top-up for Software tools, servers and marketing subs: Github, Sentry, Vercel, Pinata Cloud, AWS, Cursor, MS, NameCheap, Digital Ocean, TheGraph, ThirdWeb, Google, OpenAI and Claude AI subscription reimbursement 5,824.99
ETHCC and Giveth Gathering Reimbursements 1,659.47
Giveth House Expenses 4,007.27