try tasks.loop instead (no direct interaction with google sheet, so shouldn't have hearbeat blocked issues)

app.py

@@ -126,8 +126,10 @@ async def on_ready():
         global_df = test_merge
         print(f"csv successfully retrieved: \n {global_df}")
 
+
         # updates both leaderboards
         remove_huggingfolks.start()
+        give_verified_roles.start()
         print("------------------------------------------------------------------------")
     except Exception as e:
         print(f"on_ready Error: {e}")
@@ -147,6 +149,7 @@ def update_google_sheet():
     except Exception as e:
         print(f"update_google_sheet Error: {e}")
 
+
 #@tasks.loop(minutes=1) tasks.loop leads to heartbeat blocked issues (merging calculations too much with normal discord bot functions)
 def update_hub_stats():
     try:
@@ -216,6 +219,7 @@ def update_hub_stats():
     print("------------------------------------------------------------------------")
 
 
+@tasks.loop(minutes=1)
 async def give_verified_roles():
     global global_df
     for index, row in global_df.iterrows():
@@ -234,15 +238,14 @@ async def give_verified_roles():
         
 thread_pool_executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=2)
 asyncio_executor = AsyncIOExecutor()
-scheduler = AsyncIOScheduler(executors={
-    'default': thread_pool_executor,
-    'asyncio': asyncio_executor
+scheduler = BackgroundScheduler(executors={
+    'default': thread_pool_executor
 })
 scheduler.add_job(update_google_sheet, trigger='interval', minutes=1, max_instances=2, executor='default')
 scheduler.add_job(update_hub_stats, trigger='interval', minutes=1.5, max_instances=2, executor='default')
-scheduler.add_job(give_verified_roles, trigger='interval', minutes=1, max_instances=1, executor='asyncio')
+#scheduler.add_job(give_verified_roles, trigger='interval', minutes=1, max_instances=1, executor='asyncio')
 scheduler.start()
-asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()
+#asyncio.get_event_loop().run_forever()
 
 
 def calculate_level(xp):