Giveth Team Compensation and Expenses - September 2025

Details

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

Breakdown of Payments:

Total Compensation 49,019.84
Less: GM in Giveth 14,622.04
Add: Expenses paid from treasury 1,037.00
Add: Repayment of compensation cost covered by Griff from previous months 19,150.00
Total Amount paid from Treasury 64,584.78

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
Aasem 35.00
Algene 8.00
Ali 147.48
Alireza 8.00
Amanda 10.50
Anamarija 77.78
Ashley 79.27
Carlos 160.00
Cotabe 37.67
Daniela 75.68
Freshelle 38.00
Giantkin 30.00
Griff* 62.00
Jake 124.00
Kay 80.00
Kkechy 158.37
Latifat 3.50
Lauren 85.58
Mahdi 7.00
Maryjaf 160.00
Mitch 133.83
Mo 3.73
Ramin 8.00
Rodrigo 38.42
Shyne 10.62
Yegor 75.33

*unpaid

Spending Details

Total Compensation for the month 59,019.82
Less: Cost of Giveth in GM 2,101.11
Giveth Compensation Cost 56,918.71
Add: Expenses 1,170.35
Total Cost for the month 58,089.06

General Magic <> Giveth Accounting

Summary

Description Amount
GM contributors working in Giveth $14,622.04
Less: Giveth contributors working in GM $2,101.11
Amount Giveth to pay GM $12,520.93
Add: Subscriptions share - Aug 2025 $95.35
Net amount Giveth payable to GM - Sep 2025 $12,616.28

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 - $45,919.98
  • GIV Compensation - $998.73 / 522,821.67 GIV
  • GIV Price at time of distribution - $0.00191026
  • GIV Price via Coingecko Oct 8, 2025, 16:58:18 GMT+8

GIV Equity Distribution

Following the recently approved equity distribution plan, we distributed $500.52 worth of GIV tokens as equity to the contributors who opted to partially receive their monthly compensation in $GIV tokens.

Month September 2025
Equity distribution in USD $500.52
GIV Price at time of distribution $0.00191026
GIV Price via Coingecko Oct 8, 2025, 16:58:18 GMT+8
Total GIV sent for Distribution 262,017.73
Transaction Link link here

Working Group Cost Breakdown

WG Cost for the Month in USD
DApp WG 10,531.19
DAO Ops WG 3,273.87
Quadratic Funding (QF) WG 33,109.65
GIVeconomy WG 1,840.00
Fundraising WG 7,415.04
Giveth Business Development 748.96
Total Giveth Compensation Cost 56,918.71

*Note: There is a $1.42 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) - 114.35 USD
  • Copilot Github (shared subscription with GM - DApp WG) - 19 USD
  • BD Win Commission (Thrive Polygon Grant) (DApp WG) - 3,800 POL / 912 USD
  • BD Win commission (Stellar QF Sponsorship) (QF WG) - 125 USD