Fund calculation
The monthly base is 10% of verified donations plus 10% of verified member-to-member payments recorded for the previous month, then adjusted for any published carryover.
Separate from ordinary trading
Browsing, opening an account, or reviewing a trade is not consent to contribute to this experiment.
Any participation or funding requires separately agreed terms. Before relying on an allocation, establish the funding source, explicit consent, decision rules, conflicts, exit terms, and a success criterion that accounts for review and administrative costs. Karma alone does not establish allocation expertise or impact.
The records and calculations below are retained for transparency. This page does not certify that these experimental requirements have been satisfied or authorize a deduction.
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Monthly cycles publish the calculation and the selection rule
The mechanism is not a hidden recommendation feed. A published cycle records the previous-month money base, any carryover, assigned arbiters, selection pools, support counts, reasoning, and dissent notes.
Specific-action arbiters
Each cause area can receive up to five randomly selected arbiters from members in the top 10% of karma for that cycle, excluding members who recently served.
Community-wide arbiters
Seven cycle-wide arbiters are selected from high-karma members with diverse cause priorities. Their allocation reasoning is recorded before a cycle is finalized.
Current month
Fund overview
The current cycle uses the previous month's donations and member-to-member payments, then publishes reasonings and dissent under fixed UTC deadlines.
No cycle has been published yet.
Once a month is published, this page will show the fund, arbiters, and reasonings.
Stage one
Specific-action combinations inside each cause area
Five randomly selected arbiters from the top 10% of community karma, among members currently prioritizing the cause area, can publish a cause-specific combination once at least three agree.
Stage two
Community-wide cause-area allocation
Seven cycle-wide arbiters review the published cause-specific combinations and decide what fraction of the month's fund should go to each cause area.
No community-wide allocation reasoning has been published for this cycle yet.