Market:Home
Welcome to the WikiDeal markets home page. Market pages are where WikiDeal develops its rules, contracts and frameworks for a fair, trustworthy and cooperative economy. A market is a specific economic area in which people and institutions make deals. Market pages help to coordinate the communityâs efforts by grouping contributors around these markets, thus centralizing resources, recommendations and discussions for each market.
This home page is organized in six parts: Portals, Pilot use cases, Programmes, Observatories, Rings of Trust and the Toolbox.
1. Portals
Portals are the generic categories that group related marketplaces together. There is no fixed number of portals: new ones are added as the community grows. A marketplace is one specific market (for example Babysitting or Taxi); a portal gathers several marketplaces of the same kind.
Marketplace status legend: Pilot (being studied first) · Incubating · Coming soon.
Transportation
- Taxi Cooperative : Incubating
- Bike Sharing : Coming soon
Housing
- Cooperative Housing : Incubating
- Eco Village : Incubating
- Real Estate : Incubating
Care
- Babysitting : Pilot, live in 2026
- Pet Sitting : Coming soon
Arts & Creation
- Professional (musicians, graphic designers, tutoring, AI co-creationâŠ) : Incubating
Education
- Tutoring : Coming soon
Finance & Solidarity
- Microcredit & Mutual Aid : Incubating
- Street Fundraising : Incubating
Sell
- Tool Library / resale : Coming soon
Rent
- Equipment, spaces and vehicle rental : Coming soon
Other marketplaces currently mapped to a portal: Leisure, Separation (a one-shot service, part of the Life Transitions programme), Target Audience. See the overview of all portals.
2. Pilot use cases
The pilot use cases are the marketplaces being studied first, the ones the community works on as priority prototypes:
- Babysitting, pilot portal, intended to go live in 2026
3. Programs
A program is a combination of several marketplaces into one coherent, global experience (for example housing + activities + training). A single marketplace (such as babysitting) is not itself a program; it is a service used within one or more programs. Programs are the operational backbone that turns contracts into real-world journeys. They are organized into thematic categories (Technology, Market, Social, Artistic, Retail).
See the Programs home for the example programs (Volunteering, Real Estate, Eco-Village Transition, Education, Rings & Alliances, Recycling & Upcycling, Street Fundraising, Microcredit, Transport, Community Migrations, Life Transitions, and others as they emerge).
4. Observatories
Observatories are where WikiDeal watches and documents a field, rather than running deals in it. They belong to the Market space too. Examples being explored:
- Competition & co-operation observatory
- Planned obsolescence observatory
- Free legal watch
Observatory pages are being structured; links will be added as the pages are created.
5. Rings of Trust
Rings of Trust are the circles of mutual trust within which users share Miles Credits, recommendations and guarantees. Marketplaces, programmes and user groups can all operate inside one or more Rings of Trust.
6. Toolbox
The Toolbox holds the building blocks the community develops inside each market:
- Use cases: scenarios in which a deal might need to be made
- Clause bases (general): the general clause groups shared across contexts, using WikiDealâs contract template language
- Endorsed contract models (specific): models built on the clause bases, endorsed (legally validated) by lawyers for specific contexts
- Legal references: relevant law, organized by country
- Case law: legal precedents at all relevant levels
- Compensation rules: compensatory measures (conditions, pricing scales, Miles Credits)
- Reminders: automated message templates sent to the parties of a deal
- Usage tips & tutorials: guides to help users do deals well
The endorsement chain: a base of general clauses â Legal Endorsement by lawyers â endorsed models for specific contexts.
Contribute
You are very welcome to start contributing: add material to a marketplace, draft a contract model, document an observatory, or join a user group focused on the markets, use cases and areas you care about.