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Moral Trade
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UnderstandStart with the idea, source, and safest first route.
Choose your pathRoute by intent: learn, test an example, donate, or join/build.What is Moral Trade?A plain-language primer for new visitors.How it worksA simple walkthrough from example to review.SourcesPrimary references and product-boundary notes.FAQCommon questions and operating limits.
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ExploreInspect what is live enough to read, clone, or donate through.
ProjectsWhat is live, illustrative, or upcoming.Worked examplesSeeded structures, not live offers.All offersLive offers and worked examples.Pledge swapsExchange bounded commitments.Donation offsetsRedirect matched opposed donations.Donate through a routeUse a vetted external donation handoff.
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JoinMove from examples into one supported pilot action.
Create bounded tradeDraft terms with baseline, exit, evidence, and review gates.Create donation offsetSet baseline, match, destination, surplus, and evidence rules.Create wish profileDescribe broad wishes before mutual disclosure.Founding cohortInvite one serious counterparty and start small.Private matchingConsent-gated counterparty discovery.Create accountUse member workflows after the public primer.
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TrustCheck status, review rules, safety boundaries, and recourse.
AboutWhat exists today, what does not, and what comes next.What you can rely onPrototype guarantees, review states, and non-guarantees.Pilot statusWhat is real, reviewed, or still prototype-stage.ValidationEvidence states, challenge windows, and review scopes.SafetyCoercion, fraud, and pressure boundaries.Anti-threat rulesBaseline integrity and externality checks.AccessibilityWCAG-oriented QA scope, limitations, and support route.MeasurementPrivacy-safe event taxonomy and performance baselines.TransparencyAggregate review, disclosure, report, appeal, and operator timing counts.Team and governanceOperator routes, reviewer roles, and public gaps.Pilot updatesPublic logs, governance updates, and case-study notes.ContactReach the pilot operators or report a support issue.
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Reasoning standards

Make trade records specific enough to judge.

Moral Trade is useful only when the parties can see the action, the reciprocal request, the verification rule, and the safety boundary before anyone relies on the exchange.

Review offersSafety policy

Core test

01
Voluntary

Both sides can decline without threat, pressure, doxxing, or retaliation.

02
Mutually beneficial

Each side can explain why the trade is better under its own moral view.

03
Verifiable

The record names what evidence will count and who reviews it.

Trade standard

A valid offer should name the whole exchange

Public offers should show the action, reciprocal request, cause areas, minimum reciprocal impact, duration, exit rule, and evidence rule. Donation offsets add a named compromise destination, matched-redirection rule, unmatched-surplus rule, threshold, expiry, and anti-threat certification.

Not a threat market

Offers that rely on threats, coercion, fraud, harassment, doxxing, or pressure on vulnerable people are not moral trades. They should be blocked or sent to review.

Not generic charity advice

Moral public goods are presented as coordination mechanisms for shared consensus goods. The site is not a charity evaluator and should not claim that a destination is best for every donor.

Not legal escrow

Payment language must stay aligned with the terms. Evidence-gated review, third-party payment records, and pending verification are not legal escrow.

Protocol-backed standards

The public standards now resolve to validator contracts.

The audit asked Moral Trade to move from policy prose to policy-enforced workflows. These checks expose the fixed review loop, approved copilot output, and provenance rules behind a draft before anyone treats it as matchable or complete.

Reasoning standard health

pass

pass

26 validator check(s), 0 blocker(s) across the review workflow, copilot contract, and provenance schema.

Review workflow JSONCopilot contractProvenance schema

current status

2 factors

Status card

Expose whether a record is live, example-only, blocked, or still under review.

status_visiblehuman_review_required

Rule: Never imply completion, custody, enforceability, or moral endorsement from a visible status.

action evidence

2 factors

Action evidence

Show whether each factual action claim has a named reviewable proof method.

evidence_rule_namedevidence_sufficiency

Rule: Ask for scoped artifacts before anyone relies on a factual action claim.

baseline confidence

2 factors

Counterfactual baseline

Keep factual proof separate from the no-trade baseline and counterfactual trust problem.

baseline_statedbaseline_credibility

Rule: Ask what would happen without the trade and what dated evidence supports that claim.

externality review

2 factors

Externality review

Name third-party harm, perverse-incentive, and unrepresented-value review before reliance.

externality_review_requiredhuman_review_required

Rule: Route affected-party standing, remedy, and challenge-window questions to human review.

participant relative scores

2 factors

Participant-relative scores

Display stated priorities without turning them into an objective platform ranking.

participant_relative_scoresno_global_moral_ranking

Rule: Use scores only as participant-stated context and preserve the no-global-ranking notice.

appeal scope

2 factors

Appeal scope

Limit appeals to the claim, evidence row, baseline concern, disclosure decision, or policy flag under review.

appealable_review_scopereviewer_summary

Rule: Do not reopen unrelated moral disagreements by default.

Fixed verification loop

  1. BlocksSchema completeness checkschema completeness
  2. BlocksAnti-threat / prohibited-content checkanti threat
  3. BlocksBaseline credibility checkbaseline credibility
  4. BlocksEvidence sufficiency checkevidence sufficiency
  5. RoutesExternality-review trigger checkexternality trigger
  6. BlocksPrivacy/redaction checkprivacy redaction
  7. RoutesMatch explanation generationmatch explanation
  8. RoutesHuman-review routinghuman review routing

Approved copilot output

  • status
  • completeness
  • trade structure
  • trust assessment
  • match explanation
  • verification loop
  • clarification questions
  • uncertainty flags
  • next step checklist
  • cited evidence table
  • review instructions
  • reviewer summary
  • citations

The contract permits summaries, cited evidence, uncertainty flags, and next steps; it does not permit hidden reasoning or autonomous status changes.

Evidence object rules

  • Artifacts are content-addressed
  • Claims link to existing artifacts
  • Artifact scopes match claims
  • Duplicate proof is explicit
  • Artifact timestamps are reviewable
  • Artifacts, decisions, and activities name agents

Artifacts, claims, review decisions, activities, agents, and traceability events stay separate so proof can be challenged without broad moral overclaiming.

Verification standard

Evidence has to be named before reliance

Records should state the evidence standard in plain language: receipt, third-party payment record, audit, dated public statement, manual reviewer decision, or another checkable rule. A submitted claim is not treated as verified merely because it was uploaded.

Donation offsets

Offset records should expose the matched action, compromise destination, verification rule, threshold, expiry, unmatched-surplus rule, and evidence standard.

Read offset standards

MPGF evidence

Manual external-payment evidence is available after sign-in and remains pending until review. Provider webhooks can record provider events only when the relevant payment mode is configured and approved.

Review MPGF workflow

Priority correction

The Priority Correction Fund records monthly calculations, arbiter assignments, support counts, dissent notes, and published reasoning instead of hiding allocation decisions in private messages.

Review the fund process

User guidance

Dense moral claims need practical field-level guidance

The current forms use structured fields and validation so a participant can see what is missing before publishing. The next product step is deeper onboarding and richer examples, not loosening these standards.

Moral Trade

A pilot institution for cooperation under disagreement.

Moral Trade helps serious participants test small, reviewable commitments across moral disagreement. It does not provide legal, tax, escrow, or custody services.

Marketplace

  • Projects
  • Choose your path
  • Browse offers
  • Worked examples
  • Pledge swaps
  • Donation offsets
  • Donate through a route
  • Public Goods Fund
  • Private matching

Learn

  • About
  • What is moral trade?
  • How it works
  • Methodology
  • Measurement
  • Transparency report
  • Safety policy
  • Anti-threat rules
  • Validation
  • Accessibility
  • Moral Trade technical spec
  • Evidence standards
  • FAQ
  • Deferred paid offers
  • Sources

Community

  • Team and governance
  • People
  • Wish registry
  • Founding cohort
  • Pilot updates
  • Create account
  • Sign in

About

  • Contact
  • Pilot status
  • What you can rely on
  • Transparency report
  • Research and governance
  • Reasoning Center
  • Allocation notes
  • Candidate pools

Legal

  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Accessibility
  • Safety policy
  • Evidence review

Reference points include Toby Ord's paper on moral trade and Forethought's discussion of convergence, compromise, threats, blockers, and moral public goods.