How a charity gets paid

A coin on Give names a charity from the directory. The charity has agreed to nothing in advance and does not have to. Its share of the creator fees accrues in a vault on Solana that nobody holds a key to — not the launcher, not Give — until the organisation claims it.

Claiming, in three steps

Use Claim with a Solana wallet the organisation controls. There is no login and nothing to connect: you prove the account the way anyone can check it, in public.

1. Connect the wallet to be paid. This binding is permanent. Use a wallet your organisation holds the keys to, not an exchange deposit address.
2. Prove the account. Enter your handle and get a short code, like give-3f9a2c1b7d. Put it in the account's bio — or in a post from the account — and press Verify. Give reads your public profile (or the post you link) and, if the code is there, signs a five-minute attestation that binds that wallet and nothing else. Remove the code afterwards if you like. The code is derived from your handle and wallet, so it is the same every time you ask.
3. Sign one transaction. It binds your wallet to the vault. If no coin has named you yet, it also creates the vault; you pay the rent, around 0.001 SOL.

From then on, payouts are permissionless. A keeper submits a transaction that pays the vault out to the bound wallet, and the program refuses any other destination. You never have to do this again.

Where the operator has registered an X developer app, "Sign in with X" appears as an alternative to editing the bio. It is the same attestation either way.

What if we never claim?

The fees wait. Nobody else can take them: the only account that can bind a destination is yours. Give cannot redirect them, cannot spend them, and cannot return them to the launcher. If a verification lapses, no new coin can name you, but the vault and everything in it stay yours to claim.

Changing the wallet later

A bound destination can be changed, but only by the currently bound wallet, and only after a 48-hour delay that is visible on-chain. A lost key is a real loss; choose the wallet carefully.

Do not want to be listed?

Ask, and you are removed. A removal is one signed event and takes effect immediately for new launches. Fees already earned by coins that named you remain claimable by you.

What Give sees

Your public profile page, once, when you press Verify — the same page anyone on the internet can read. Give keeps no access token because it never had one. The attestation names one wallet and expires in five minutes; a leaked one authorises binding that wallet and nothing else.