Season 6 Campaign Ideas - Established Project - Giveth

karmaticacid · May 12, 2026, 6:54am

Project Name

Giveth

Project Description

Giveth is a zero-fee crypto donation platform, established in 2016, that supports streaming (“recurring”) donations to projects in a variety of tokens on Optimism and Base. With over 8,000 projects and 26,000 donors, Giveth acts as a distribution layer for public goods funding, combining seamless in-app Superfluid integration with a robust project verification system that builds trust, transparency, and long-term donor confidence.

We also offer novel web3 donation legos like “GIVbacks,” where donors to “GIVbacks eligible” (public goods) projects are entered into a monthly raffle with up to 1 million GIV tokens awarded to a single winner. This incentive stacking - zero fees, GIVbacks rewards, SUP incentives, and QF impact amplification - transforms one-time donors into sustained recurring supporters and increases lifetime value for both projects and the ecosystem.

Giveth was part of Superfluid’s Ecosystem campaigns in Season 5, where we facilitated donations from 340 unique recurring donors (1,912 all-time) through our integration. We would like to continue the program as it currently operates, where donors who set up recurring donations of at least $20/month to GIVbacks eligible projects earn SUP proportionally to their donation value, while continuing to onboard ecosystem-aligned projects and continuing to grow Superfluid adoption through Giveth.

Important Note: Team Participation

We received community feedback during Season 5 regarding team member participation in our campaign.

As, Giveth has participated in Superfluid ecosystem campaigns since Season 1, with relatively few changes to the program implementation over time, we were not aware of the guideline against team member and campaign manager participation, and we apologize for the oversight.

We have thought of the SUP campaign as something very similar to our GIVbacks program - incentives made available to encourage donations to established public goods projects.
Anyone using the feature must donate real funds in order to receive any SUP rewards which makes the campaign materially different from other established campaigns where rewards can be earned without a loss of funds.

After reviewing a few examples, we found that participants were generally donating more than they were earning back in liquid SUP. In other words, this does not appear to be a case where users can extract profit from the program. Rather, participants are directing real funding to impactful public goods projects and receiving a comparatively small amount of SUP in return, which gives them governance power and a stronger incentive to engage with the Superfluid ecosystem.

We do not wish to discourage our team from supporting projects or from using the honestly incredible “set it and forget it” donation feature that is our Superfluid integration, therefore:

Let this be an explicit statement that - if our proposal for Season 6 passes - we will not be restricting team members from the campaign and will interpret that approval as community consent to allow new memebers and existing Giveth community members alike to set donation streams.

Website

Project Readiness

Giveth has been around since 2016 with different versions of our donation platform. The current version has been live since March 2021, and our SuperFluid integration has been around since May 2024.

Benefits to SUP Holders

The Giveth platform is home to over 8000 projects, 26,000 donors and has helped projects raise more than $6.69 million dollars. We offer regular QF rounds, project verification and monthly GIVbacks raffles - attracting people from all over the world who want to make an impact.

Since launching our Superfluid integration, we have onboarded 1912 unique addresses to Superfluid through Giveth recurring donations, serving as a platform to grow the user base. Donors who use Superfluid can essentially “set it and forget it”, having their donation create an impact on matching funds for their chosen project(s) throughout any QF rounds they’re included in.

We promote using Superfluid for donations (and the opportunity to earn SUP) through regular X spaces (reaching 19.1k followers) where we announce the winners of our GIVbacks raffles - many of which are recurring donations users themselves. GIVbacks raffles give out up to 1.5M GIV per month. That combined with SUP rewards for recurring donation users creates a powerful public goods lego stack that benefits donors and impact projects alike.

Since S4, we have also been offering priority verification review to Superfluid ecosystem-aligned projects, so that their donors can benefit from the program.

How we use Superfluid

We have a full in-app integration with Superfluid that uses SuperTokens - and the user never needs to leave Giveth!

You can read all about this integration in our docs here: Recurring Donations

Or watch this quick video (note: this video was made before we supported recurring donations on Base, so it mentions “only Optimism”): https://youtu.be/xuxYZiIKWWw?si=LWk0K7YFPK1I2ohk&t=21

Team members

Kechy (dev): kkatusic (kechy) · GitHub

Lauren (PM): https://x.com/karmaticacid

Jake (BD): https://x.com/GivJake

Anamarija (marketing): https://x.com/anamarie_com

Social Links

All links can be found through our Linktree: @giveth | Instagram, X, Facebook | Linktree

Contract Addresses

Optimism

Giveth Anchor Contract: 0x5430757bc19c87ec562e4660e56af6cac324b50a
Anchor Registry: 0x4AAcca72145e1dF2aeC137E1f3C5E3D75DB8b5f3

Base

Giveth Anchor Contract: 0x5430757bc19c87ec562e4660e56af6cac324b50a
Anchor Registry: 0x4AAcca72145e1dF2aeC137E1f3C5E3D75DB8b5f3

Networks

Our superfluid integration works on Optimism & Base.

SuperTokens Used

On Optimism: OPx, ETHx, GIVx, DAIx, USDC.ex, USDCx, USDGLOx

On Base: USDCx, ETHx, cbBTCx, DAIx, DEGENx

Current Active Users

All time, there have been 1912 unique donors using recurring donations on Giveth. In season 5, we saw 340 unique donors.

All time on Giveth we’ve seen 8000 projects and 26,000 donors, with monthly unique donors fluctuating between 360 and 1800 in the past year.

Current Superfluid Volume

Total USD streamed as recurring donations to GIVbacks eligible projects since the start of the campaigns on Giveth

Month	USD Streamed	Monthly Growth	Notes
Jan 2025	$407	N/A
Feb 2025	$798	96%	S1 Started
Mar 2025	$1,311	64%
Apr 2025	$1,598	22%
May 2025	$1,893	18%	S2 Started
Jun 2025	$6,664	252%
Jul 2025	$8,191	23%
Aug 2025	$9,239	13%	S3 Started
Sep 2025	$10,133	10%
Oct 2025	$2,113	-79%
Nov 2025	$3,178	50%
Dec 2025	$17,814	461%	S4 Started
Jan 2026	$2,659	-85%
Feb 2026	$708	-73%
Mar 2026	$1,084	53%	S5 Started
Apr 2026	$879	-19%
May 2026	$266	Month ongoing	until May 11

Top 20 projects receiving funds from streaming donations (all time)

Project Name	Link	Unique Streams	Total USD streamed (All time)
Giveth House	Giveth House \|<!-- --> Giveth	52	$28,754
PCRF - Palestine Children’s Relief Fund	PCRF - Palestine Children's Relief Fund \|<!-- --> Giveth	297	$6,285
WebHash	https://giveth.io/project/webhash	16	$5,703
Flow State	https://giveth.io/project/flow-state	49	$4,815
Giveth Matching Pool	https://giveth.io/project/giveth-matching-pool-0	603	$4,784
eth.cd	eth.cd \|<!-- --> Giveth	8	$3,296
The Giveth Community of Makers	https://giveth.io/project/the-giveth-community-of-makers	1916	$3,270
Gardens	https://giveth.io/project/gardens	13	$1,669
Defend Roman Storm	Defend Roman Storm \|<!-- --> Giveth	621	$1,474
Blocktrend - Taiwan’s Trusted Voice in Web3	https://giveth.io/project/blocktrend-taiwans-trusted-voice-in-web3	5	$1,378
Public Nouns Operations	Public Nouns Operations \|<!-- --> Giveth	64	$1,150
El3eza Centre	El3eza Centre \|<!-- --> Giveth	28	$727
ETHDaily	ETHDaily \|<!-- --> Giveth	16	$581
rotki	rotki \|<!-- --> Giveth	7	$542
The GreenPill Network	The GreenPill Network \|<!-- --> Giveth	7	$483
Diamante Luz Center for Regenerative Living	Diamante Luz Center for Regenerative Living \|<!-- --> Giveth	12	$305
Glo Dollar	Glo Dollar \|<!-- --> Giveth	9	$300
Grassroots Economics	https://giveth.io/project/grassroots-economics	7	$289
SEAL 911	SEAL 911 \|<!-- --> Giveth	25	$275
Dappnode	https://giveth.io/project/dappnode	20	$249

Top 20 projects receiving funds from streaming donations in Season 5 (since Mar 4, 2026)

Project Name	Link	Unique Streams	Total USD streamed (S5)
Giveth House	Giveth House \|<!-- --> Giveth	8	$611
Gardens	https://giveth.io/project/gardens	3	$418
Defend Roman Storm	Defend Roman Storm \|<!-- --> Giveth	75	$227
The Giveth Community of Makers	https://giveth.io/project/the-giveth-community-of-makers	320	$221
Giveth Matching Pool	https://giveth.io/project/giveth-matching-pool-0	82	$136
rotki	rotki \|<!-- --> Giveth	2	$114
PCRF - Palestine Children’s Relief Fund	PCRF - Palestine Children's Relief Fund \|<!-- --> Giveth	33	$103
Flow State	https://giveth.io/project/flow-state	18	$52
The Solar Foundation	https://giveth.io/project/the-solar-foundation	3	$49
Deep Funding	Deep Funding \|<!-- --> Giveth	2	$38
Human Passport	Human Passport \|<!-- --> Giveth	4	$30
SEAL 911	SEAL 911 \|<!-- --> Giveth	3	$29
Treegens	Treegens \|<!-- --> Giveth	6	$27
Regens Unite	Regens Unite \|<!-- --> Giveth	1	$20
Swiss-Knife.xyz	Swiss-Knife.xyz \|<!-- --> Giveth	1	$13
Greenpill Dev Guild	https://giveth.io/project/greenpill-dev-guild	1	$10
ETHDaily	ETHDaily \|<!-- --> Giveth	2	$9
Public Nouns Operations	Public Nouns Operations \|<!-- --> Giveth	13	$8
The Blockchain Socialist	The Blockchain Socialist \|<!-- --> Giveth	1	$6
DCTRL Clubhouse Events Space	https://giveth.io/project/dctrl-clubhouse-events-space	3	$6

Top 20 donors who set streaming donations in Season 5 (since March 4, 2026 to date of posting)

Note: donors who chose have their name & address hidden from the UI are labelled as “anonymous”, although addresses can still be found on-chain.

name	address	USD Donated (S5)	1st Recurring Donation	Most Recent Recurring Donation	Projects Supported (All time)
Unknown	0x2556d3b2722c37cad259c4bc6804f4e1ac43f06e	$417	Aug 21, 2025	Apr 4, 2026	1
Cotabe Moral	0xe64113140960528f6af928d7ca4f45d192286a7a	$370	Jul 6, 2024	May 10, 2026	4
Sky	0xe04885c3f1419c6e8495c33bdcf5f8387cd88846	$302	Oct 3, 2024	May 10, 2026	4
Lauren Luz	0xc46c67bb7e84490d7ebdd0b8ecdaca68cf3823f4	$203	May 15, 2024	Apr 27, 2026	7
Anonymous	Anonymous	$177	Apr 30, 2024	May 10, 2026	8
jimjim eth	0xf1b42cc7c1609445620de4352cd7e58353c3fa74	$113	Oct 27, 2025	May 10, 2026	1
Anonymous	Anonymous	$73	Feb 21, 2025	May 10, 2026	2
Ahmad Abugosh	0x33878e070db7f70d2953fe0278cd32adf8104572	$57	May 8, 2024	May 10, 2026	1
Unknown	0x7f453c4e8a316705f551f1d82dfd906c43ba3dc7	$49	Mar 25, 2025	May 10, 2026	1
Colin Magerle	0x23d660548cd61432537592dcea15b059605c9242	$43	May 24, 2025	May 10, 2026	2
Joan Pedersen	0xe422d6c46a69e989ba6468ccd0435cb0c5c243e3	$42	Dec 7, 2025	May 10, 2026	4
Matty Compost	0xa9d20b435a85faaa002f32d66f7d21564130e9cf	$40	Mar 26, 2025	Apr 20, 2026	2
Unknown	0x67e5c486b8e614b73555f9b5ab810fd2759639ff	$36	Apr 4, 2026	May 10, 2026	2
Unknown	0x0b2b3483a5cedb08839e098d3d9f02d1893a20dc	$32	Feb 21, 2025	May 10, 2026	5
Unknown	0xd559e433718b1f2667fde7c859fc982cf0bc491f	$26	Mar 9, 2026	May 10, 2026	2
Ornella Web3	0xb749a586080436e616f097f193ba9cb6a25e7ea6	$22	Apr 14, 2025	Apr 25, 2026	2
Anonymous	Anonymous	$19	May 31, 2025	May 10, 2026	3
Daria Voronina	0x8341c4106523b49fc247f84e412bb2af5597038f	$14	Mar 29, 2025	May 10, 2026	2
Artem Y	0xfae62c9056f9e9c3cf555311ade26a2eab01a8e3	$11	Jul 26, 2025	May 10, 2026	2
Mikhail Kuptsov	0xcd0d4cdb238eec15fcf4ff9d13d5a59051e507d7	$11	Mar 29, 2025	May 10, 2026	2

Fee Structure

Giveth is famously zero-fee! In fact, we actually pay YOU to donate

As I mentioned above, donors who set streaming donations to GIVbacks eligible projects also enter to win GIV from our GIVbacks raffles. So we stack incentives on top incentives, and the projects get 100% of their donations directly to help support their impact.

User Persona

Giveth is a bit of a web3/IRL bridge. While most of our audience - donors and projects - are crypto native, QF rounds and impact opportunities lead to onboarding efforts to bring more people into the space.

KPIs

Our main KPIs for these campaigns is number of streams set for recurring donations, and USD streamed to projects, with past data in the tables above.

Conclusion

Giveth has proven to be a strong distribution layer for Superfluid adoption, bringing recurring donations to thousands of public goods projects and onboarding nearly 2,000 unique donors to streaming payments. By combining Superfluid streams with zero-fee donations, GIVbacks, SUP rewards, and QF amplification, we create a uniquely powerful incentive stack where donors, projects, Giveth, and Superfluid all benefit.

We propose continuing the program in its current structure, where donors streaming at least $20/month to GIVbacks-eligible projects earn SUP proportionally to their donation value.

For Season 6, we hope to continue growing this impact, supporting more ecosystem-aligned projects, increasing recurring donation volume, and helping more donors discover the value of “set it and forget it” public goods funding.

joanbp · May 12, 2026, 9:03am

Thank you for acknowledging the feedback and making a clear statement like this. I appreciate that.

A question for you:

If your proposal passes, you will interpret it as community consent to ignore the ‘no team lead participation rule’.

How many percent of the Superfluid voting power do core Giveth members currently hold? (Hint: According to Snapshot, Griff wielded 2.425% and you wielded 0.488% in the vote on Season 6 general rules - through your named primary addresses alone) Add less than 0.1% from another address, and you would, in reality, be able to give yourself the permission you speak of - and then attribute it to ‘the community’, wouldn’t you?

And a question for Superfluid (@dopamino - sorry, I don’t know who else to tag):

Is this permissible? Are projects with sufficient voting power - hypothetically - allowed to vote through their own proposals, get campaign funds and do whatever they like, even in direct contradiction to rules approved on a more general level by all Superfluid DAO voters for all campaigns?

Can 3% of votes (hypothetically) legitimize ignoring a rule approved by 99.6% (including the lead of said project)?

karmaticacid · May 12, 2026, 4:30pm

Holding a small amount of voting power in a Snapshot vote is not the same thing as being able to capture governance. I personally have a SUP balance of 163k, less than 0.06% of the circulating supply.

Griff is by far the largest SUP holder on the Giveth team, and in the vote you referenced, he represented less than 2.5% of total voting power. Giveth-affiliated voters are nowhere close to being able to unilaterally pass a proposal or override the broader Superfluid community.

So no, this is not a realistic governance capture concern.

More importantly, I disagree with the premise that Giveth contributors participating in Superfluid governance is a problem. Giveth is a Superfluid integration partner: we use the technology, promote recurring donation streams, and bring public goods donors and projects into the Superfluid ecosystem. People and teams who actually use the protocol participating in its governance is not a bug, it is the point of a DAO.

The people you mentioned are SUP holders who have been active in governance - those are the people you would want to earn SUP vs. the people who earn it and dump.

Furthermore, this campaign is not an insider allocation or private reward program. It is an open donation campaign where anyone can participate under the same terms by donating real funds to public goods projects through Superfluid streams.

The goals of this campaign are to:

Drive funding to nonprofits and public goods projects
Bring more users to Superfluid
Bring an audience of donors and projects into Superfluid DAO
Strengthen the partnership between Giveth and Superfluid

We believe excluding the people who work on Giveth from using the feature has a net negative impact on those goals.

Our proposal is explicit on this point. The SUP community can approve or reject it with that condition clearly stated.

joanbp · May 12, 2026, 7:07pm

I was referring to the percentages as recorded in the most recent Snapshot. I cannot rule out errors in the UI - or even that your vote was given greater weight than it should have. Someone else would have to be the judge of that. I can only state what I see, and what everyone else can verify for themselves.

2.5% of the total vote is huge. I think you are understating the weight of this - intentionally or unintentionally.

You say that Giveth affiliated voters cannot unilaterally pass a proposal, but the fact of the matter is that 3% is all it takes for a campaign to be included in the upcoming season.

Assuming that the Snapshot is correct with regards to Griff being able to vote with a weight of 2.425%, then, yes, there is a very real possibility that Giveth affiliated voters could indeed pass on the Giveth campaign unilaterally - or with just a minimum of support from a few other DAO members.

Anyone who cares can go check out how you guys voted in the Season 5 campaign selection vote (hint: 100% Giveth).

Do you disagree that there is a very clear rule against insider participation in the overall Season 6 proposal that was approved by 99.6% of the Superfluid DAO less than a week ago?

To recap, the Season 6 rule states:

“Insider Participation: To ensure fair and effective use of Ecosystem Campaigns, project and campaign leads are expected not to participate in their own campaigns in ways that generate points or rewards. This includes creating or using accounts, contracts, or donation flows under their control to route activity back to themselves for the purpose of earning campaign rewards. Campaign incentives should be directed toward genuine external users and ecosystem activity.
By submitting a proposal or participating as a campaign lead, project and campaign leads are deemed to confirm that they are not directly or indirectly claiming points or rewards for their own benefit."

You could have participated in the debate around the clarification of this rule when it took place, but you did not. Now is not the time to debate whether the rule should be there or not (in season 6).

As can be seen on Snapshot, you and Griff both voted in favour of the Season 6 guidelines.

And now you are submitting a S6 proposal which - according to the rules that just about every active voter in the DAO has signed and approved - is seen as a confirmation of your commitment to not claim points or rewards for yourself.

Except, you are stating in your proposal that you intend to do just that.

That is simply not respectful to the Superfluid voters who have voted on the rule set, or to other team members and leads who follow the rules and abstain from taking rewards from their own campaigns.

As I see it, this should clearly make Giveth ineligible. - And I say that with a slightly bleeding heart, as someone who has been participating in your S5 campaign, happily donating to public goods and earning SUP rewards.

That’s fine. You can participate in all the other campaigns, but not your own. Those are the rules.

I’m sure noone wants to prevent you from going on donating to public goods projects. Or using Superfluid streams to do so. You just have to not accept any SUP rewards for participating in your own campaign.

This was the rule in S5 already - and yet you got so far 5.9% of the total Giveth campaign SUP, while Griff got 5.2%.

Do you want to get into how Griff also got 17% of the Giveth season 3 campaign? And 16.5% in season 2? And how all of that SUP is what now allows him and a few others to potentially pass on the Giveth S6 campaign, regardless of what the rest of the community might think of it - unless the core team decides to make Giveth ineligible on the grounds that you are clearly stating that you do not intend to follow the same rules as everyone else?

Don’t you care how this looks to others, or how it affects the Superfluid DAO if there is no neutral credibility because rules are not being enforced the same for everyone?

karmaticacid · May 12, 2026, 7:34pm

It is not logical for our team to collect all possible contributor addresses and push to blacklist them from rewards. The net impact is less donations, less superfluid adoption and good people excluded from governance earned at a financial loss. I don’t see how this benefits anyone.

Just as a DAO can vote in favor of a set of rules, they can vote in favor of an exception.

Feel free to cast your vote accordingly.

joanbp · May 12, 2026, 8:01pm

Of course. Did you make a proposal and ask that the Superfluid DAO as a whole vote to decide if they want Giveth to be exempt from the ‘no insiders’ rule?

I have less voting power than you. Me voting for someone else in the campaigns selection vote will not prevent Griff from securing you those ~2.5% and a few of all your other “possible contributor addresses” securing the remaining 0.5% needed to pass on your campaign.

96.9% of the DAO could decide to not vote for Giveth, and you would still make it.

Unless you are deemed ineligible.

It will be very interesting to see.

@dopamino

Edit: Oh, and let’s be real… The S5 Giveth pool has a total of 22 members. If you saw 340 unique recurring donors in season 5, most of them didn’t get any cut of the rewards.

dopamino · May 13, 2026, 10:05am

Thanks everyone for the discussion.

As background: following points raised by the community during the SIP-14 discussion, the Insider Participation wording was updated to provide clearer expectations around insider participation and disclosures.

Appreciate Giveth addressing this point openly in detail in their submission thread. There are reasonable arguments and concerns being raised from different perspectives here.

Applying a purely binary approach to eligibility may not fully reflect the context and the nature of Giveth as a donation platform, where participating team members may also be donating real funds to public goods projects through the platform, rather than simply routing activity back to themselves. That makes the question of intent less straightforward, especially as SIP-14 refers to activity conducted “for the purpose of earning campaign rewards”.

Ultimately this is something for the DAO and voters to weigh during the campaign selection vote.

Appreciate the discussion, which should help how insider participation proposal wording can be improved in future seasons.

joanbp · May 13, 2026, 11:26am

I’m incredibly disappointed to see this:

I see very little point in going on putting my neck out and engaging in DAO debates with a goal of supporting credible neutrality as a common good if rules decided upon by the entire community are not upheld by the team who has the power to police the system on behalf of the community.

The ‘no insider participation rule’ was publicly debated on Discord and here, clarified and approved by the DAO (99.6%) a week ago. It was even explicitly stated that:

I thought of this as a clear promise.

Giveth’s pool has had 22 members in this entire season. At least 11% of the funds went straight to two of its own two lead members. (It could be much more, but those are the two addresses with unmistakable ens-names that I have specifically done the research on).

To make it clear by an example: One of these addresses got 42461 SUP from Giveth’s pool in season 5, to date. When that stream was still going strong, the address owner held 168 pool units, which in this case means that they had donated roughly $168. (I studied this pool specifically because I, too, have been a participant in it).

So - this person donated $168 to their own campaign and got $555 worth of SUP in return (current exchange rate). Or, if you like, 42k more governance tokens to use in the next campaign selection vote.

That’s just one address, one season. In previous seasons it was worse (no 5% cap then).

Giveth has stated that they saw 340 unique recurring (ie streaming) donors in season 5. But only 22 addresses got any SUP rewards. How exactly is this helpful for Superfluid?

karmaticacid · May 13, 2026, 6:04pm

340 is unique recurring donors on Giveth in S5. ~22 is the count of donors who streamed at or above the $20/month threshold to GIVbacks-eligible projects, which is the qualifying criterion for SUP. The other ~318 are below the threshold, donating to non-eligible projects, or both. More users brought to Superfluid via Giveth is still good for the ecosystem, even if they don’t meet the thresholds to earn SUP in the campaign.

The Snapshot ballot voters approved was a one-line summary about continuing Season 6, not a focused referendum on the Insider Participation clause.

Furthermore, the Clause states that

By submitting a proposal or participating as a campaign lead, project and campaign leads are deemed to confirm that they are not directly or indirectly claiming points or rewards for their own benefit.

This is completely valid and important clause, but we are contesting how it applies to a structurally net-negative donation campaign.

Even using your example of a donor giving $200 and earning roughly $500 in S5 SUP: That SUP can’t be easily liquidated because of the claim mechanics, so the real benefit is additional governance power got by earning the SUP in a campaign vs by directly getting it on a DEX.

Voter turnout on campaign distribution votes is significantly higher than on season approval votes. In S5: 53.8M on the distribution vote vs 24.5M on the approval. So the 2.9% combined weight you’re citing from the S6 approval is not a reliable indicator of weight in the S6 distribution vote, which is where campaigns are actually selected.

That said, Giveth team members can vote for future Giveth campaigns to pass, and yes, that helps keep a campaign running. But you can trace the value: team members earn SUP, governance supports the campaign continuing, the campaign funds donations to public goods projects through a free, zero-fee donation platform that is itself a public good.

Superfluid gets more users and marketing through Giveth & its donors. Giveth gets people from the Superfluid ecosystem noticing and supporting public goods.

Team members don’t make personal gain, but the public goods ecosystem we build for does.

richieboston · May 14, 2026, 4:15am

I will keep this brief, since it does no good to be long-winded.
I heartily applaud @joanbp and all the work she/he does to help us know what is happening on the blockchain and with smart contracts etc. that often remain hidden from less knowledgeable users.

I saw the percentage of the superfluid pools and their SUP claims from two wallets from team members in the last GIVETH Superfluid Season 4, and it also surprised me. I thought those incentives are made by the DAO to attract and retain new users and current users. There has already been a discussion on this in the Superfluid DAO and it was received huge support that a 5% cap be placed on each wallet/user in each campaign and also that team members would not farm rewards since they have other income related to their web 3 activities and since they are already committed to using super tokens in productive and innovative and helpful ways.

And, in addition to everything that has been said, there are many other founders and team members like @markcarey who assured me that they are specifically committed to not claiming SUP rewards in the seasons their projects of @streme and @degendogs etc are enrolled. This said to me that they certainly respect that many users think there should not be ulterior motives and vested interests that conflict with those who manage these protocol.

karmaticacid · May 14, 2026, 3:05pm

The Giveth team has no technical ability to enforce the cap. Our implementation is set up and managed from the Superfluid side. The 5% cap is a good rule, and I agree it should be enforced as well, but I don’t any direct control over it. We have discussed it with the Superfluid team and they said they are/have been manually managing it.

I personally ended my donation streams once this conversation was brought to my attention (having streamed in fact only $203 over the 3 months of s5). I had been streaming donations since May 2024 - well before I started managing this program, and so genuinely had no idea that my participation was contentious.

I am personally ok with abstaining from using the feature going forward if it’s more aligned with the community, but we do not plan to collect and blacklist team member addresses.

We leave it to the vote to determine whether or not to continue the program.