How it Works

How It Works

When someone donates to a Cause on Giveth, they’re not just supporting a single project, they’re contributing to a pool that is actively managed by a Donation Agent.

The Donation Agent

The Donation Agent is an AI-powered Agent that regularly pulls data from Giveth and external sources to assess projects within each Cause. It considers:

Project Information from Giveth (title, description, update history)
Social media activity such as posts on Twitter and Farcaster
GIVpower Ranking

Using the factors above, the Donation Agent prioritizes funding distribution to projects within the Cause according to:

How relevant their content is to the Cause’s goals
How robust their impact evidence is
How active they are on socials
How often they leave updates on their Giveth project
The quality of the content on their project and socials
How much GIVpower they have

Fund Distribution

Each donation to a Cause is automatically bridged and swapped into GIV on Polygon via Squid Router, with minimal user friction. Donors can contribute from most EVM-compatible chains and with various tokens, but everything is ultimately converted into GIV.

Every 24 hours, the Donation Agent distributes 5% of the Cause pool’s current balance among the selected projects. The allocation follows this breakdown:

92% to projects, distributed based on scoring
5% to Giveth, to support platform sustainability
3% to the Cause creator, as an incentive to curate and promote high-quality Causes

Donation Networks:

Arbitrum One
Base
OP Mainnet
Ethereum Mainnet
Polygon PoS
Celo