Happy New Year! 🎆

☀ GM friends!

Just like that, we’ve reached the final GIVnews of the year! 🎉💜 As 2025 approaches, we want to thank you for being part of this amazing journey. 

Your generosity and support have made a world of difference. Here’s to a New Year filled with hope, kindness, and impact - Happy New Year from all of us at Giveth! ✨

Our highlighted updates from everything related to Giveth. 🌌

🌟2024 Highlights Over $1.5M donated to impactful projects, 62,454 contributions from 12,098 donors, 4,689 new projects onboarded, expanded to 11 chains, and $120K+ in GIVbacks distributed. 💜 Catch the full recap on our GIVtalk podcast on Spotify.

🎁 12 Days of GIVing Check out the top 12 projects that made the biggest impact on Giveth this year. Discover these incredible initiatives and see how they’ve shaped a year of GIVing. 

📈Maximize your GIV staking rewards: Earn up to 45% APR by staking and locking your $GIV on Polygon zkEVM—significantly higher than 17% on Optimism or 13% on Gnosis. Start staking today. 

🔥 The q/acc Eight startups raised an incredible ~173K POL from 1,261 supporters, with a $250,000 matching pool set to build liquidity for their tokens on QuickSwap. Tokens hit DEXs soon - stay tuned! 🚀

🎧 Missed our GIVtalk with Skylar, Devcon Team Lead? Don’t worry - relive the highlights of Devcon 2024 and Giveth’s Impact Space story here. 

💜 Breaking records with Quadratic Funding In 2024, we held 7 QF Rounds, driving over $784K+ to support public goods. 

🎉GIVbacks Round 78 Over $7,065 USD donated and 765,993 $GIV distributed back to our incredible donors. Check out the 10 raffle winners announced LIVE here.

q/acc Cohort 1

This month, we’re celebrating all 8 groundbreaking projects from the first q/acc round, each tackling real-world challenges with bold, innovative solutions. Here’s a closer look at what they’re building:

⭐x23.ai - Making DAOs smarter and more efficient by integrating AI tools to automate governance and streamline operations, bringing us closer to truly autonomous organizations.

⭐Akarun - A mobile racing game where players compete using runners linked to live market assets. The fastest runner tied to the best-performing asset wins, gamifying prediction markets like never before.

⭐Ancient Beast - An open-source eSports strategy game offering match-based 1v1 or 2v2 gameplay. With no chance-based elements, it’s simple to learn yet challenging to master.

⭐Citizen Wallet - A mobile app and NFC wallet that helps communities launch and manage their own tokens, empowering people to build stronger networks and local economies using Web3 tools.

⭐Melodex - A decentralized exchange for music royalties. Artists and investors can tokenize song rights, enabling passive income and revolutionizing how music is monetized.

⭐Prismo Technology - A hybrid layer-2 platform designed for enterprises and governments, bridging traditional systems with blockchain for secure and scalable solutions.

⭐The Grand Timeline - An interactive, collectible research project documenting blockchain history, offering a deep dive into the evolution of Web3 through a creative and educational lens.

⭐Xade Finance - An AI-driven DeFi platform offering seamless trading and management of digital assets, combining insights with user-friendly tools to bring DeFi to everyone.

Discover exciting initiatives and support them early on in their Giveth journeys. 😍 Want to see more amazing projects? Check them out here.

 🌐 Web3Wire is a decentralized media platform that showcases Web3 and blockchain innovations. It offers affordable promotion for startups, decentralized publishing via IPFS, and community-driven governance through a DAO.

🎶 ZAO Festivals is a movement celebrating creativity and Web3 technology, connecting independent artists, technologists, and communities through events like ZAO-CHELLA.

📚🔍 Welcome Onchain helps users explore and understand the onchain ecosystem. With a directory of 1,400+ crypto projects, relational insights, educational resources, governance tracking, and industry opportunities, it connects newcomers and enthusiasts to the world of crypto.

Pool Together

This month, we’re excited to feature PoolTogether as our GIVfriend of the month! 

PoolTogether is a no-loss prize savings protocol that turns saving into a fun and rewarding experience. Users can deposit their favorite yield-bearing tokens, which generate yield that is pooled together. The accrued yield is then randomly awarded as prizes to lucky participants, while everyone keeps their original deposits safe and accessible at any time. 

We’re also excited to launch Giveth Vaults on PoolTogether! These vaults will let users deposit assets like ETH or USDC (details coming soon), with part of the yield funding prizes and another portion supporting the Giveth Matching Pool. Check out the ongoing proposal with the PoolTogether team here.