Requesting 8.5M GIV to extend GIVpower to July 2026

Our 5th 6-month period of GIVpower staking incentives has closed and we’re late on an extension!

Current program ended: December 23, 2025 Request: Top up staking incentives on Optimism & Gnosis Chain for 6 more months until July 23, 2026 Request amount: 8,500,000 GIV From: GIVgarden bucket (controlled by GIV holders)

Justification

According to our dune dashboard, the amount of GIV staked over the last 6 months has relatively plateaued. And to make this fast and easy, I am proposing to just extend the rewards with the same total amount we did the last 6 month period (8.5M GIV) but instead of having the amounts increase linearly, we will just keep the same rewards amount each 2 week period.

In this spreadsheet on the GIVpower Jan '26 tab, I calculated the amounts for each notify reward period that we set up and executed Jan 8, 2026

I am also proposing to keep the same distribution across chains, namely:

75% on Optimism 25% on Gnosis

Conclusions

This proposal is asking GIV token holders for permission to:

Use 8.5M GIV to extend GIVpower staking rewards on Optimism & Gnosis Chain from January 7-July 23, 2026 (75%/25% on Optimism/Gnosis)

Since the current incentives has already ended, we have already executed the extension, but if this vote does not pass, we can make subsequent changes.

Vote FOR - if you agree to the proposal as outlined here Vote AGAINST - if you disagree with the proposal outlined here