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Our highlighted updates from everything related to the Giveth Galaxy and the GIVeconomy. 🌌

💜🧡Giveth x Endaoment Over 3,000 nonprofits delivered by Endaoment are now live on Giveth, ready to receive your support and make an impact.

🎡 GIV-a-Palooza QF Round starting September 10th Get nominated by a Giver NFT Holder to participate! Nominate projects here. 

💜💙 GIV-ARB QF Round Results are LIVE! With a 150,000 ARB matching pool on Arbitrum One, this round raised $18,960.46 from 668 unique donors, supporting 79 eligible projects. For a detailed breakdown of the results, check out our forum post!

🌉Bridge $GIV between Gnosis and Optimism. Move $GIV between Gnosis and Optimism Mainnet quickly and with minimal fees, while also supporting Giveth.

🏆Recurring Donation Rally Winners We’ve wrapped up our summer Recurring Donation Rally, and the results are in - congratulations to the winners. 👏

🎁 GIVbacks V2 Experiment Begins! Starting September 3rd with GIVbacks Round 71, every $5 donation to a verified project could win you up to 250,000 $GIV! Join our biweekly X Spaces for winner announcements and community stories.

💫GIVbacks changes The people have spoken! GIV holders voted to add a $5 minimum donation requirement for GIVbacks, and a 9 month "claim window".

🌱GURVES: A New Era for Public Goods. Learn how projects can provide free, non-excludable value, tap into self-sustaining markets, and drive innovation with $GIV, read more in our latest blog post!

🔥 Major changes to Project Verification: Giveth project verification has, to date, been centralized. Now with DeVouch, Giveth is decentralizing & empowering trusted community members to vouch for impact projects. 

GIVeconomy is now on Polygon zkEVM! Stake your GIV on Polygon zkEVM for GIVpower and rewards, plus earn GIVbacks for your donations!

Featured Project 🙌

Decentralized Cleanup Network

Decentralized Cleanup Network is an innovative blockchain-based platform designed to incentivize and reward global environmental cleanup efforts through digital assets, fostering a transparent and verifiable system for recognizing individuals and communities for their environmental contributions.

In the recently concluded GIV-ARB quadratic funding round, they achieved remarkable milestones:

• Secured 7,500 ARB in matching funds.

• Impressive match per unique donor ratio of 468.75 ARB.

Newly Verified Projects 🏆

In this section, we highlight some of the newly verified projects on Giveth. This is a great place to discover exciting initiatives and support them early on in their Giveth journeys, while of course earning sweet GIVbacks. 😍

DeSci Round is an initiative designed to support and promote decentralized science (DeSci) projects through a community-driven funding model.

💫 Hypercerts Foundation is developing open-source protocols to transparently fund and reward impactful work, utilizing web3 tools to track, evaluate, and monetize positive contributions within a decentralized ecosystem.

📚 EducatETH is developing tech content in Spanish for developers and builders, offering an online course focused on Blockchain and dApp development on Ethereum and its Layer 2 solutions

Code Verification API proposes a standardized approach to verifying Rust-based smart contracts in the EVM+ environment of Arbitrum Stylus, aiming to tackle non-deterministic build challenges and foster a culture of on-chain code verification.

🤖FairAI is a decentralized marketplace for plug-and-play AI solutions, allowing companies to pose problems and AI developers to solve them, with operators providing the computation needed.

🛡 Passport XYZ is an identity verification app and Sybil resistance protocol that allows users to collect verifiable credentials, or "Stamps," proving their identity without revealing personal information.

🧩 WebHash is a no-code platform that allows users to create tokenized, decentralized, and permanent websites on IPFS, supporting both ENS and DNS domains, and providing secure ownership and management through blockchain tokenization.

GIVfriends 🫶

Nounspace 

Nounspace is a Farcaster client that offers extensive customization for your Space and Homebase. Users can personalize their profiles with Themes and Fidgets to enhance their experience on the decentralized network.

After a month of alpha testing, Nounspace is now available to all Farcaster users for free. The $SPACE token, launched in June 2024, supports participation through stETH deposits.

We’re partnering with Nounspace for a special raffle! Mint your ticket for a chance to win a unique nOG NFT, perfect for enhancing your digital presence and supporting the Giveth ecosystem.

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