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Giveth

Project

grants.giv.eth

Bringing nonprofits to Optimism & building towards “Impact = Profit” since 2016

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78 ballots

Contribution

2016 -Open-sourced MiniMe token contract, the foundation of $OP 2017 -Launched first donation dapp on ETH & maintained it until Rinkeby deprecation 2018 -Led ScalingNOW! to address Ethereum scaling issues -Etherscan is closed source, impeding scaling, so we started OpenSourceBlockExplorersNOW! which led to the creation of Blockscout -Spun out Dappnode 2021 -Launched Giveth.io to support public goods w/ zero-fee donations 2023 -Added Optimism to Giveth & started rewarding donors w/ GIV on OP -Launched GIVpower staking incentives & project boosting on Optimism -Ran onboarding campaign, offering OP to verified projects joining Optimism -Promoted RetroPGF at 2 conferences w/ General Magic -Ran QF round on Optimism w/ 25k DAI of matching -Migrated Giveth reputation DAO to Optimism

Impact

Minime -Used by Lido, every AragonOS DAO & many others -Forks of Minime (ERC20Snapshot.sol & ERC20Votes.sol) are used by countless DAOs including Optimism. They enable $OP’s DAO governance! ScalingNow! -Liam.eth, ex-CEO of OP Labs, and many others attended our free IRL gathering in 2018, undoubtedly leading to better coordination in this niche space. Giveth Donation App -Used by Protocol Guild, Dappnode, Curia & 1000’s of other OSS & traditional nonprofits to market their projects & give them an alternate funding stream outside of RetroPGF -We onboarded hundreds of public goods projects to Optimism & now they are part of the Collective 😃 GIVeconomy Migration -Our economy rewards every donor & staker with streaming GIV rewards that run until Dec 2026, locking them into Optimism.

Funding sources

Governance fund
Growth Experiment Cycle 11 (Only 16k received so far)
40,000.00 OP
RetroPGF 2
This was so powerful for us! Thank you!
129,814.43 OP
RetroPGF 1
We really appreciated this!
24,450.00 USD
Other
Historic Gitcoin Rounds - Estimation
120,000.00 USD
Other
Gitcoin Alpha round - Individual Donations & Matching
5,167.00 USD
Other
Gitcoin Beta round - Individual Donations & Matching
15,060.70 USD
Other
Gitcoin GG18 round - Individual Donations & Matching
4,069.73 USD
Other
Donations on Giveth (About ½ is from Octant)
106,075.65 USD
Other
#1 DAO in DAO Drops
18,186.00 USD