Volume III — The Ask
$40K, in public.
Every dollar in the Season 01 budget is mapped out below. Giveth is live now and funds the team directly. I post the actual spend monthly so anyone can check. The match pool unlocks when the first token of patronage sells.
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$40,000 funds Season 01. Every dollar pays a working journalist, editor, or fixer. The full breakdown is below if you want to see the math first — or you can skip ahead and back the work directly.
The Ask
Three months · Jun → Aug 2026
Every dollar, accounted for.
$40K
Q2 2026 · Operating budget
Where the $40,000 goes.
Three months of work, June through August. Full breakdown below. Updated every month.
● Public books
● Onchain receipts
● No equity dilution
$40,000 · at a glance
Line
Allocation
%
USD
/ 01
Team operations
Eight people, three countries. Editors, livestreams, social, project management. $7,000/mo × 3 months.
52.5%
$21,000
/ 02
Bounty match pool
We match community-funded country bounties dollar-for-dollar once the first token of patronage sells. Strongest contributors win $1,000+ each. Paid out August 31.
25%
$10,000
/ 03
Weekly tips
$20 per quality submission, every week, twelve weeks straight. Practice paid in real time.
10%
$4,000
/ 04
Infrastructure & contingency
Onchain minting on Optimism and Arweave, platform fees, software, plus a working buffer for the unexpected.
12.5%
$5,000
Payroll order: Nigeria editors and Marissa first, the rest of the U.S. team second, me last. The team gets paid before the founder. Costs run from June 1 onward, and I post the line items every month.
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