The Ecosystem Fund is 25% of the total MORALS supply (250,000,000 tokens). It will reward people and entities who take actions to spread and grow usage of Morals. This fund is 25% of the total supply because there are a lot of opportunities, and I want to reward you for seizing them.
The process for the Ecosystem Fund disbursements is very lightweight. No fancy, slow governance process. I am technically able to make allocation decisions myself as the tokens are gradually unlocked. However, I intend to bring the vast majority of funding decisions to the community for feedback before sending, since the wisdom of the crowd will know better than I will what funding decisions will most benefit the Morals project. My intention is that most funds will be given out retroactively to reward actions already taken. However, in cases where upfront capital is required, this is possible. You don’t need to check with me before you build something, but feel free to, I’m happy to discuss!
Disbursements
All payments from the Ecosystem Fund are recorded here for full transparency. At launch, the Ecosystem Fund is 25% liquid, and 75% locked in a Sablier vesting stream that unlocks monthly over 12 months.
| Date | Description | Amount | USD Value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No disbursements yet. | ||||
Bad Actor Identification Program
The first major use of the Ecosystem Fund is to reward participants of the Bad Actor Identification Program. Most established crypto projects are sitting on data about bad actors — airdrop farmers, rug pull deployers, sandwich bot operators, wash traders, exploit perpetrators, banned users, scammers — but this information is hidden and underused. The Bad Actor Identification Program turns that private knowledge into a public good.
The idea is simple: Established projects send tiny amounts of MORALS dust to all of the suspected bad actors they are aware of, so this information is permanently recorded onchain and incorporated into Moral Scores. A portion of the Ecosystem Fund will reward participating projects, to encourage companies to go to the trouble to take this action.
Learn more about participating in the Bad Actor Identification Program →
Participating projects:
None yet
Existing Projects Integrating Morals
The second major use of the Ecosystem Fund will be to reward existing projects who incorporate Morals data. To get your wheels turning, here are some ideas for the sort of things I’d like to reward projects for doing. If you work with any of these projects, or similar ones, please get in touch with me:
- Projects like Farcaster/Neynar/Hypersnap trust scores integrating Morals into spam filtering or Neynar score
- Projects like Galxe, Nansen, Human Passport, or Trusta Labs integrating Morals into their sybil detection service or airdrop management products
- Projects like MetaMask, Rainbow, or Rabby displaying Morals data within wallets
- Projects like Etherscan and BaseScan surfacing Morals on address pages
- Projects like Morpho or Aave using Morals data to adjust collateral requirements, fee tiers, or pool access
- Projects like Optimism Collective, Lido DAO, or Uniswap DAO using Morals for governance weighting
- Projects like Credora, Cred Protocol, or ReputeX incorporating Morals into their risk or credit score products
- Projects like Nexus Mutual incorporating Morals data into underwriting or pricing
- Projects like Gitcoin or Optimism RetroPGF incorporating Morals data in their grants programs
- Any other project in any category (games? analytics tools? agent launchpads? NFT marketplaces? media companies?) that integrates Morals in a meaningful way
Funded integrations:
None yet. It makes sense to pursue this after we demonstrate more sustained traction.
New Projects in the Morals Ecosystem
The third major use of the Ecosystem Fund will be to reward new projects building in the ecosystem. Here’s a running list of ideas which I do not intend to build myself. Send me more ideas if you have them!
- For all potential partners integrating Morals data we will want to offer an API and other developer tools to make it easy for them. SDK, webhooks, etc... If I were looking for the right founder to really nail this product I would not choose me. Better opportunity for someone more technical and experienced with building this kind of tooling.
- A product to make it seamless/easy for people designing airdrops to incorporate Morals data into their process
- Some sort of cross-chain integration with other ecosystems, such as Solana. I don’t have a good idea for this yet. Do you?
- A tool which makes it easier to send Morals to large numbers of people at once. Perhaps with more curated lists of wallets so that a large number of addresses could be targeted with a single click.
- App for integrating Morals into Telegram
- App for integrating Morals into Discord
- Analyze crypto news/activity each week and suggest little-known people who are deserving of receiving MORALS. This could take the form of a Farcaster/X account, newsletter, Telegram chat, or mini app. The idea would be to cut through the noise of all the popular people and find the highly moral people who are under the radar but super worthy of acknowledgment. Or the highly immoral people who are under the radar.
- A really clever visualization of Morals data. I feel like there should be a moral compass somewhere, spinning around...
- A Morals-centric Farcaster client?
- I, the founder of Morals, have another idea for a project to build. It’s even more clever than Morals and in my opinion it’s a significantly more impactful opportunity. I’ve already put a lot of work into developing the idea, so I have my founder hat on here, and yet I have also decided that I don’t actually want to commit myself to executing it. So if you’re looking for something ambitious to build, with a full-time technical team who is doxxed and willing to jump through various legal/regulatory hoops, let me know. If I find the right team I’ll set aside a couple tens of billions of MORALS to contribute to the effort. For myself, I don’t want any of those tokens, or any equity, or salary, or control, or title... but I do want a revenue share. Sharing this intention here before launch is the moral thing to do. The Ecosystem Fund is meant to support projects that will benefit everyone in the Morals community, and that’s exactly what this idea would do. These tokens will go to whoever builds this, never to me. But still I want to acknowledge that whatever tokens are granted to the team who builds this may indirectly lead to a financial benefit to me through a hypothetical future revenue share.
- Send me any more ideas that you want me to add to this list!
Funded new projects:
None yet.
The purpose of our Ecosystem Fund is cultural, not financial. The point is to reach more people so we can include a wider variety of moral opinions, in order to increase the accuracy of our morality graph. These efforts do not guarantee any increase in the price of the token.