Gross donations and potential earnings – NGOs, relays, wallets
Last update: 2025-11-07
Why this page
DustEthic turns tiny crypto leftovers into aggregated micro donations. The stack exists already. Adoption is the question.
Goal: provide order‑of‑magnitude numbers per role and explain why being early matters.
Why act early
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Habit shortcut: your DustEthic button becomes the default way to “empty the dust”.
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Brand halo: visibility in a public leaderboard and impact reports.
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Recurring revenue: a share of the fee per the relayer’s public schedule.
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Example at the 5% tier: wallets ≈ 1.5% of gross, relayers ≈ 3.5% of gross (before OPEX). Assuming 20% OPEX on the relayer share, net ≈ 2.8% of gross.
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Contribution: you influence the public roadmap as an early integrator.
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Integration costs – ballpark
Wallets – Level 1 (SDK button)
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CAPEX: 2 to 5 dev days + 1 to 2 QA days – roughly 2.5k to 10k USD.
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OPEX: very low.
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Break‑even: Annual volume ≈ CAPEX / (0.30 × effective_fee_rate).
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Example 5% tier: CAPEX / 0.015. For 10k USD, break‑even ≈ 0.67 M$ routed.
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Wallets – Level 2 (AA + Paymaster)
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CAPEX: 3 to 6 weeks including design and QA – roughly 25k to 80k USD.
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OPEX: low to medium depending on scope.
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Relayers
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CAPEX: implementation + contracts + monitoring – roughly 30k to 90k USD.
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OPEX: RPC 50 to 250 USD/mo, servers 4 to 50 USD/mo, monitoring 30 to 200 USD/mo. Third‑party paymaster possible.
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Break‑even: Annual volume ≈ (CAPEX + OPEX) / (effective_fee_rate × 0.70 × (1 − opex_ratio)).
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Example 5% tier and 20% OPEX: denominator = 0.05 × 0.70 × 0.80 = 0.028. For 45k USD, break‑even ≈ 1.61 M$.
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Calculation assumptions – standardized
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Self‑custody user base: 40 M unique users.
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4‑year adoption: 10% then 25% then 40% then 50%.Average donatable dust per user per year: base 8 USD – low 3 USD – high 20 USD.
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Degressive relayer fee per monthly batch (suggested starting max):
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0 to 50k: 15%
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50k to 200k: 12%
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200k to 1,000k: 8%
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1,000k and above: 5%
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Fee split: wallets 30% – relayers 70%.
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Gas policy: L2‑first – execute a batch only if the donations/fees ratio is favorable – gas reimbursed first.
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Technical reserve: 0.5% recommended, included in the campaign cap.
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Campaign cap: gas + fee + reserve ≤ public threshold (e.g., 15%).
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Net formula: NGO Net = Gross − fee − gas − reserve.s − commission − gas − réserve.
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4‑year projection - degressive schedule (5% tier) - 70/30 split - gas 0.10% - reserve 0.50%
| Year | Donors (M) | Gross (M$) | Avg monthly batch (M$) | Tier applied | Total commission (M$) | Relayers net (M$) | Wallets (M$) | Gas est. 0.10% (M$) | Reserve 0.50% (M$) | NGO net final (M$) |
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| Y1 | 4.00 | 32.00 | 2.67 | 5% | 1.60 | 1.12 | 0.48 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 30.21 |
| Y2 | 10.00 | 80.00 | 6.67 | 5% | 4.00 | 2.80 | 1.20 | 0.08 | 0.40 | 75.52 |
| Y3 | 16.00 | 128.00 | 10.67 | 5% | 6.40 | 4.48 | 1.92 | 0.13 | 0.64 | 120.83 |
| Y4 | 20.00 | 160.00 | 13.33 | 5% | 8.00 | 5.60 | 2.40 | 0.16 | 0.80 | 151.04 |
50% adoption - low/base/high - degressive schedule (5%) - 70/30 split - gas 0.10% - reserve 0.50%
| Scenario | Donors (M) | Gross (M$) | Avg monthly batch (M$) | Tier applied | Total commission (M$) | Relayers net (M$) | Wallets (M$) | Gas est. 0.10% (M$) | Reserve 0.50% (M$) | NGO net final (M$) |
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| Low ($3) | 20.00 | 60.00 | 5.00 | 5% | 3.00 | 2.10 | 0.90 | 0.06 | 0.30 | 56.64 |
| Base ($8) | 20.00 | 160.00 | 13.33 | 5% | 8.00 | 5.60 | 2.40 | 0.16 | 0.80 | 151.04 |
| High ($20) | 20.00 | 400.00 | 33.33 | 5% | 20.00 | 14.00 | 6.00 | 0.40 | 2.00 | 377.60 |
Sensitivity (Y1 if per‑relayer monthly volume were ≈ 0.53 M$, i.e., 8% tier): Fee 2.56 M$ – Relayers 1.79 – Wallets 0.77 – Gas 0.03 – Reserve 0.16 – NGO net 29.25 M$.
What each role earns
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Wallet integrators: fee share per schedule – e.g., ≈ 1.5% of gross at the 5% tier.
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Relayers: fee share per schedule – e.g., ≈ 3.5% of gross at the 5% tier (before OPEX). If OPEX ≈ 20%, net ≈ 2.8%.
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NGOs: new recurring micro‑donations stream – visible net_to_ngo – no ETH needed for donors.
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Risks and safeguards
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Cross‑wallet overlap: if above 30%, the base shrinks. Methodology published and adjusted.
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Average dust amount: monitored and recalibrated quarterly.
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Incentives: public degressive schedule, campaign cap, anti‑split rules, execute batches only if the donations/fees ratio is favorable.
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Next steps
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Wallets: add the DustEthic button – earn a fee share per schedule – public badge.
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Relayers: start on a major L2 – publish schedule, cap, exports and logs.
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NGOs: register addresses – follow your net_to_ngo dashboard – retrieve explorer links and CSV exports.
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