Giveth Team Compensation and Expenses - November 2025

Details

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

Breakdown of Payments:

Total Compensation 52,881.52
Less: GM in Giveth 18,134.61
Add: Expenses paid from treasury incl. TheDAO legal costs* 25,661.00
Total Amount paid from Treasury 60,407.91

*TheDAO legal set up costs: 23,136 USD

  • Legal Services 10,000 USD
  • Registration Fee 9,500 USD
  • Nominee Registration Service fee 3,636 USD

Team Information

Name Hours
Aasem 8.00
Algene 10.00
Ali 97.78
Alireza 1.00
Amanda 31.67
Anamarija 83.12
Ashley 160.00
Cotabe 74.25
Freshelle 58.50
Gardner 47.50
Giantkin 30.00
Griff* 148.00
Jake 128.00
Kay 60.00
Kkechy 151.83
Lauren 69.42
Mahdi 10.00
Maryjaf 130.00
Mo 48.28
Ramin 160.00
Rodrigo 33.70
Shyne 16.05
Yegor 63.35

*with unpaid hrs

Spending Details

Total Compensation for the month 54,208.39
Less: Cost of Giveth in GM 1,326.50
Giveth Compensation Cost 52,881.88
Add: Expenses 25,815.53
Total Cost for the month 78,697.41

General Magic <> Giveth Accounting

Summary

Description Amount
GM contributors working in Giveth $18,061.48
Less: Giveth contributors working in GM $1,326.50
Amount Giveth to pay GM $16,734.97
Add: Subscriptions share - Nov 2025 $116.53
Net amount Giveth payable to GM - Nov 2025 $16,851.50

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 - $50,494.65
  • GIV Compensation - $987.23 / 2,140,560.28 GIV
  • GIV Price at time of distribution - $0.0004612
  • GIV Price via Coingecko Dec 12, 2025, 19:54:42 GMT+8

GIV Equity Distribution

Following the recently approved equity distribution plan, we distributed $496.21 worth of GIV tokens as equity to the contributors who opted to partially receive their monthly compensation in $GIV tokens.

Month November 2025
Equity distribution in USD $496.21
GIV Price at time of distribution $0.0004612
GIV Price via Coingecko Dec 12, 2025, 19:54:42 GMT+8
Total GIV sent for Distribution 1,075,910.45
Transaction Link link here

Working Group Cost Breakdown

WG Cost for the Month in USD
DApp WG 25,808.42
DAO Ops WG 2,361.23
Quadratic Funding (QF) WG 8,377.27
GIVeconomy WG 1,933.04
Fundraising WG 7,239.67
Project Scoping 1,252.56
Giveth Business Development 1,008.16
The DAO Security Fund 4,901.53
Total Giveth Compensation Cost 52,881.88

*Note: There is a $0.48 difference in Clockify vs. actual amount paid due to rounding off differences.

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

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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) - 135.53 USD
  • Copilot Github (shared subscription with GM - DApp WG) - 19 USD
  • Gas fees (TheDAO) - 25 USD
  • Legal setup costs (TheDAO) - 23,136 USD
  • Top off credit card (DAO Ops WG) - 2,500.00 USD