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Moral Trade
Understand▾
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.
Explore▾
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.
Join▾
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.
Trust▾
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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Research and governance

A pilot institution, not just a product surface.

Moral trade depends unusually heavily on trust, review quality, and operator integrity. This page keeps the research agenda, safety blockers, and governance work visible before the project expands beyond cohort-mediated proposals.

What we are testing

  • Whether low-risk pledge swaps can be made legible enough for private counterparty discovery.
  • Whether action evidence and baseline confidence can be separated without overwhelming users.
  • Whether moral public-good threshold commitments can coordinate overlapping moral reasons.
  • Whether a small cohort can generate reviewable examples before broad marketplace mechanics exist.

What would make this unsafe

  • The pilot rewards threats, newly escalated harmful behavior, or coercive bargaining.
  • Scores start looking like platform moral rankings rather than party-relative statements.
  • Private matching becomes targeting, surveillance, scraping, or autonomous outreach.
  • Third-party objections are ignored because both direct parties prefer the trade.

Open mechanism-design questions

  • How should reviewers distinguish genuine counterfactual change from actions users would have taken anyway?
  • Which moral public goods are broad enough for threshold commitments without erasing dissent?
  • When should political-adjacent examples be rejected, delayed, or framed only as case studies?
  • What transparency reports can build trust without exposing private counterparties?

Reviewer rulebook

The public rulebook should make reviewer roles, challenge windows, conflicts, appeal paths, proof uniqueness, and third-party externality standing visible before users rely on a proposal.

ValidationAnti-threat baseline rulesEvidence standards

Transparency reports

The first useful report now counts review outcomes, disclosure grants, reports, appeals, operator timing, and unresolved disputes with small-sample suppression. It does not expose private-feed data, case files, report bodies, or exact wishes.

Open transparency report

People, operators, and advisors

Public authorship matters because counterparties are trusting more than a matching interface. The team and governance page should identify operators, reviewer responsibilities, and advisor roles as they become formal.

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Follow the cohort, reviewer governance, and public-goods pilot without treating the site as a liquid marketplace before the trust problem is solved.

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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.