2026-07-14 · Raiden Team
There's a percentage on your Impact page called your Giving Level, and it's probably the most misread number on Raiden — because a percentage next to the word "giving" looks like it should be about money. It isn't. It's a measure of participation, and once you see what it's actually doing, it makes a lot more sense. So let's take it apart.
Your Giving Level reflects how actively you participate on Raiden. More participation means more of Raiden's giving gets directed at the causes you've chosen. That's the whole sentence, and both halves matter: it's about direction, not possession. The money in the weekly pot belongs to no user at any point — it flows from advertisers to charities, full stop. Your Giving Level describes how much say your choices have in where the shared giving goes, not how much of anything is yours.
The inputs are the ordinary ways of being present here:
Posting. Sharing things is what makes a feed worth opening, which is what makes the whole model work.
Following. Building out your corner of the network — the connections that make Raiden a place rather than a broadcast.
Sparks. The ⚡ reaction. Sparking a post costs nothing and moves no money; it's a signal of appreciation, and giving them out counts as participation like anything else here.
Watching ads. The most direct input, since ad impressions are literally where the pot comes from.
Streaks. Showing up consistently, day after day. Steady presence counts for more than an occasional burst, on purpose.
None of these are chores we invented to farm engagement. They're the things you'd do anyway if you liked being here — the level just reflects that you're doing them.
This is the part worth being blunt about, because a percentage invites wrong guesses.
It is not money you hold. There is no per-user pool of funds on Raiden, nothing accruing under your name, nothing to cash out or transfer. Money on Raiden moves in exactly one direction — advertiser, pot, charity — and never detours through a user's hands.
It is not money owed to you. Raiden's weekly giving is discretionary, not a debt. Nobody on the platform, at any Giving Level, is owed anything. A higher level doesn't create a claim; it creates influence over where shared giving points.
It is not a revenue share. The number is not a cut, a rate, or a percentage of ad revenue with your name on it. Two people with the same Giving Level haven't "earned" some identical amount — the phrase doesn't even parse in Raiden's model, because there's no earning to do.
If you remember one line: the Giving Level is a dial on direction, not a meter on money.
You might reasonably ask: why should participation decide anything? Here's the logic.
The weekly pot exists because people spend time here. Attention on feeds is what advertisers pay for; no participation, no pot. So when the question is "whose chosen causes should this shared giving follow?", the honest answer is: the people whose presence created it. Someone who posts, follows, sparks, watches, and shows up daily is contributing more to the thing being given away than someone who drifted through once in March. Weighting their chosen causes more heavily isn't a reward program — it's just an accurate description of where the value came from.
The alternatives are worse. Split influence equally and you hand dormant accounts the same say as your most engaged neighbors, which invites people to create accounts precisely to sit on them. Let influence be bought and you've rebuilt the thing Raiden exists to be an alternative to. Participation is the signal that can't be faked cheaply and actually corresponds to the pot's existence.
You don't need to manage your Giving Level, and we'd honestly rather you didn't think about it much. Use Raiden the way you'd use any network you like: post when you have something to say, follow people worth following, spark what deserves it. The level will reflect that on its own — and the causes in your giving split will carry a little more of the shared weight because you were here. That's all the number was ever trying to say.
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