diff --git a/src/impl/dgb/config_pool.hpp b/src/impl/dgb/config_pool.hpp
index 4149f2d16..80d5d3c27 100644
--- a/src/impl/dgb/config_pool.hpp
+++ b/src/impl/dgb/config_pool.hpp
@@ -69,9 +69,29 @@ class PoolConfig : protected core::Fileconfig
     }
 
     // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-    // Donation scripts — DGB p2pool uses the same c2pool dev key as LTC
+    // Donation scripts — version-gated migration (pillar 4)
+    //   pre-V36 : farsider350 2-of-3 bare multisig (DGB v35 canonical donation)
+    //   V36+    : shared COMBINED P2SH 1-of-2 (byte-identical to LTC network)
+    // get_donation_script(version) selects per share version, matching the
+    // donation transition in p2pool-merged-v36. Source of truth for the v35
+    // bytes: farsider350 p2pool-dgb-scrypt-350 p2pool/data.py:66 DONATION_SCRIPT.
     // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+    // Pre-V36 DONATION_SCRIPT (OP_2 <3x33B pubkey> OP_3 OP_CHECKMULTISIG)
+    static constexpr std::array<uint8_t, 105> DONATION_SCRIPT = {
+        0x52,                                   // OP_2
+        0x21, 0x02, 0xd9, 0x22, 0x34, 0x77, 0x7b, 0x63,  // push33 pubkey 1
+              0xf6, 0xdb, 0xc0, 0xa0, 0x38, 0x2b, 0xbc, 0xb5, 0x4e, 0x0b, 0xef, 0xb0, 0x1f, 0x6a, 0x4b, 0x06,
+              0x21, 0x22, 0xfa, 0xda, 0xb0, 0x44, 0xaf, 0x6c, 0x06, 0x88,
+        0x21, 0x03, 0xb2, 0x7b, 0xbc, 0x50, 0x19, 0xd3,  // push33 pubkey 2
+              0x54, 0x35, 0x86, 0x48, 0x2a, 0x99, 0x5e, 0x8f, 0x57, 0xc6, 0xad, 0x50, 0x6a, 0x4d, 0xaf, 0xa6,
+              0xbf, 0x7c, 0xc8, 0x95, 0x33, 0xb8, 0xdc, 0xb2, 0xdf, 0x1b,
+        0x21, 0x02, 0x91, 0x1f, 0xf8, 0x7e, 0x79, 0x2e,  // push33 pubkey 3
+              0xc7, 0x5b, 0x3a, 0x30, 0xdc, 0x11, 0x5d, 0xfd, 0x06, 0xec, 0x27, 0xc9, 0x3b, 0x27, 0x03, 0x4a,
+              0xa8, 0xe7, 0xce, 0xfb, 0xee, 0x64, 0x77, 0xe5, 0xd0, 0x34,
+        0x53, 0xae                              // OP_3 OP_CHECKMULTISIG
+    };
+
     // V36+ combined donation (P2SH 1-of-2 multisig, same as LTC network)
     static constexpr std::array<uint8_t, 23> COMBINED_DONATION_SCRIPT = {
         0xa9, 0x14,
@@ -83,7 +103,9 @@ class PoolConfig : protected core::Fileconfig
 
     static std::vector<unsigned char> get_donation_script(int64_t share_version)
     {
-        return {COMBINED_DONATION_SCRIPT.begin(), COMBINED_DONATION_SCRIPT.end()};
+        if (share_version >= 36)
+            return {COMBINED_DONATION_SCRIPT.begin(), COMBINED_DONATION_SCRIPT.end()};
+        return {DONATION_SCRIPT.begin(), DONATION_SCRIPT.end()};
     }
 
     // P2Pool network framing (from p2pool-merged-v36/p2pool/networks/digibyte.py)