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Traditional donations are slow and costly. On Ethereum, Giveth makes giving direct, transparent, and fast.
Donations meant for schools, hospitals, or relief funds rarely travel in a straight line. A donor clicks “give,” but the money moves through processors, banks, and intermediaries before a local group sees it. Along the way, delays, fees, and FX spreads chip away at the total.
On the ground, teams wait for wires, patch budgets midstream, and send updates by PDF and screenshot. Reporting is slow, audits drag, and cash flow is uncertain. The result is simple: donors can’t verify where funds went, and recipients can’t plan with confidence. Time and trust vanish before the work even starts. There should be a better way.
Ethereum replaces opaque handoffs with public, programmable rails. Money moves directly to a project wallet, every transfer leaves a verifiable receipt, and funding is open to anyone with a wallet. Communities can discover work, curate it, and reward it in the open. This model already exists across projects like Gitcoin and Giveth. Here, we focus on Giveth.
Giveth is built for smart, transparent giving. Projects post their goals, budgets, and wallet address. Donors send funds directly, and teams update progress publicly, making the path from donation to impact clear and visible.
So far, over $4.8 million has been donated across nearly 7,000 projects, with 24,000 recent contributions on Giveth. This is a real-world impact that shows how giving on Ethereum can be direct, transparent, and community led.
The new Causes feature amplifies this. Donors fund a themed pool supporting 5 to 50 verified projects. An AI agent reallocates the pool over time toward the most active, relevant efforts. Contributions are converted into GIV on Polygon, simplifying tracking and boosting the GIV-powered economy.
Here is how those principles show up in practice. On Giveth, projects publish clear goals, a receiving address, and regular updates. Donors send funds directly and every transfer leaves a public receipt. Coordination is simple to follow and easy to verify.
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is a long-running medical relief nonprofit that uses Giveth to accept donations. Traditional rails slow disbursement and add cost, which makes planning hard during crises. On Giveth, funds land in the project wallet, updates are posted on the project page, and anyone can review the onchain history. To date the page records 352,479.40 dollars raised from 1,809 contributors across 2,351 donations, with the flow visible from contribution to use.
Anka Relief, Türkiye earthquakes is a crypto aid collective formed after the quakes in Turkey to route help quickly and transparently. The project shows 53,349.56 dollars raised from 14 contributors across 28 donations, giving donors and partners a clear view of custody, timing, and spending.
Traditional giving moves through processors and banks, with each step adding time, fees, and uncertainty. On Ethereum, funds go straight to a project wallet. Settlement takes minutes, costs less, and every transfer is visible in real time. Traceability is built in. Donations can be milestone-based, streamed, or split across recipients. Stablecoins cut FX friction, while multisig wallets share control.
Anyone with a wallet can give or receive, and community tools like Giveth Causes or quadratic funding help highlight credible work. Onramps and compliance still matter, but they’re explicit and measurable. The result is faster, cheaper, and more accountable giving.
Funding is moving toward something simpler and more accountable. Grants can settle on public rails, disbursements follow clear rules, and results tie directly to visible transactions. Pooled funds and smart agents route money where work is active, with low fees on Ethereum L2s making it programmable, verifiable, and fast.
Governments, NGOs, and communities can use the same tools at different scales. Cities can publish budgets onchain, disaster teams can run shared treasuries, and NGOs can pay vendors in stablecoins with public receipts. Community funds can curate causes and use quadratic matching to amplify smaller donors. Compliance does not vanish, it becomes clear checks and audit trails.
If you want to see this in practice, look at a Giveth project, follow a donation from send to spend, or try contributing to a Cause. This is not a slogan. It is a better way to move money to the people doing the work. Funding what matters should be simple, public, and fast. Now it can be.
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