Should Giveth end the GIVgarden?

The GIVgarden was launched at the outset of the GIVeconomy in 2021. It was designed as the proposal engine for the GIVeconomy & Giveth. Community members could propose initiatives that supported Giveth’s growth and mission and receive funding in GIV tokens to accomplish the work.

However, the GIVgarden has been neglected for the last 1.5 years and nobody uses it anymore, the original team of developers from 1hive/Gardens have stopped actively maintaining it and moved on to other projects.

Giveth DAO also hasn’t had the appetite for fielding external funding requests for quite some time and I am under the impression this has not changed.

The GIVgarden also holds a considerable sum of GIV and after observing conviction voting in action in not only our Garden but also in 1hive and TEC we found that this voting type allows proposals to pass too easily.

All these points above have convinced me that the GIVgarden is a looming liability to the GIVeconomy.

We would replace the GIVgarden with a similar community initiative funding mechanism using Snapshot for now and will make the necessary changes to Giveth webpages and its documentation to reflect this update in our Governance.