# Over $1M for Ethereum Security 🛡️


**Published by:** [GIVnews](https://news.giveth.io/)
**Published on:** 2026-04-09
**URL:** https://news.giveth.io/givnews51

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GM friends ☀ Top Stories 👩‍💻Highlights on everything Giveth. 🛡 Over $1M for Ethereum Security! Giveth is hosting the first round backed by TheDAO Security Fund, a 500 ETH matching pool QF round supporting projects that strengthen Ethereum and its L2 ecosystem. Applications are open now. Apply by April 15 to make sure your project is in. The round runs April 21 – May 12. 💧 Superfluid Season 5 is in full flow. Recurring donors streaming $20+/month to GIVbacks-eligible projects continue earning SUP while funding public goods in real time. Season 5 runs through June 1, there’s still time to set it up once and let impact (and rewards) stream. 🎨 Giveth x Artizen - Back Causes v2. We’re raising support on Artizen to build Giveth Causes v2. Even support from a $10 Artifact makes a real difference. Stories from EthCC 🇫🇷 🌱 ReFi Fishbowl At EthCC, Griff and the Giveth team participated in the ReFi Fishbowl alongside Celo and impact builders. A candid conversation about what’s working, what isn’t, and how we build funding systems that last. 🛡 TheDAO: 2026 on the Main Stage Griff took the main stage to walk through TheDAO story - from 2016 to today - and share how that dormant treasury is now being redirected into Ethereum security through TheDAO Security Fund. A powerful full-circle moment for the ecosystem. Featured Project 🙌ChainPatrol - Lights in Dark Rooms This month we're spotlighting Lights in Dark Rooms, a documentary from ChainPatrol that goes inside Southeast Asia's scam compounds, trafficking victims forced to run fraud operations at industrial scale, targeting people across the globe, including the crypto industry. Every donation goes directly to anti-trafficking organizations and survivor-led initiatives through Giveth. ChainPatrol also works the prevention angle: tracking phishing domains, fake social accounts, and impersonation scams, with real-time warnings pushed straight into crypto wallets. 👉 Support the project on Giveth Newly Verified Projects 🏆Discover exciting initiatives and support them early on in their Giveth journeys. 🌳S33D: Ancient Friends is a regenerative public-good project dedicated to mapping, honoring, and protecting ancient trees around the world. Communities visit these trees, document their stories and ecological value, and add them to a shared, open archive The Guild is a developer community built around one simple idea: your reputation should come from the work you actually do. Builders collaborate, review each other’s code, and recognize real contributions through onchain peer attestations. 🕊 Support Viasna and victims of repression in Belarus helps sustain one of the country’s most trusted human rights groups. Founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, Viasna supports political prisoners and their families, documents abuses, and keeps independent truth-telling alive in the face of ongoing repression. GIVfriendsTheDAO Security FundOur GIVfriend of the month is TheDAO Security Fund. Their mission is bold and necessary: take long-idle DAO treasury funds and redirect them toward strengthening Ethereum’s security for the long term. Instead of sitting dormant, that capital is now being activated to support the people and projects reducing real risk across the ecosystem. The first major step is already live. Giveth is hosting the Ethereum Security QF round, backed by a 500 ETH (~$1M+) matching pool from TheDAO Security Fund. Applications are open, and the round runs April 21 – May 12. If you’re building something that makes Ethereum safer, apply.Tweet of the month 🐦 Meme of the month Share

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