Question 1

What is Morphit?

Accepted Answer

Morphit is a P2P marketplace where people trade cash for cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Monero, Blurt, USDT, USD Coin (USDC), Dai, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dash, Dogecoin, Zcash, Pirate Chain, Decred, Solana, Ethereum, and XRP) directly with each other. Barter goods/services too. Morphit never touches your assets and never asks anything about you. It is a bulletin board, not a bank.

Question 2

Is it safe?

Accepted Answer

Much safer than platforms that hold your funds — because Morphit can't lose or freeze what it never had. The real risk is your trading partner, so always check their reputation score before agreeing to trade. Reputation is everything; even when the only thing that Morphit "knows" about them is that their name is @scooby. If you want to build your reputation around the name @dingleberry, go for it. Morphit shows the completed trades, feedback, and how long a user has been around.

Question 3

How is Morphit different from LocalMonero, LocalBitcoins, or Haveno/Retoswap?

Accepted Answer

Short version: Morphit goes further on decentralization, privacy, and non-custody than any of them — and deliberately does less in exchange. LocalBitcoins (RIP, 2023) and LocalMonero (closed 2024) were centralized companies with custodial escrow. When a trade went wrong, their human arbitrators held the coins and decided who got them. When the companies shut down — by regulator pressure or business decision — their entire user base, reputations, dispute history, and ongoing trades vanished overnight. Morphit cannot be shut down in the same way: there are no central arbitrators, no custodial wallets, no company bank account to freeze. Every order lives on-chain, every trade is peer-to-peer, and anyone can run an indexer or frontend. Multiple instances on four networks (clearnet, Tor, Lokinet, I2P) mean blocking one node does nothing. Haveno (and its fork Retoswap) is much closer in spirit — non-custodial, P2P, no KYC. The big differences: Haveno is a desktop-only Java/JavaFX application tied to the Monero blockchain for its 2-of-3 multisig escrow, and needs you to run (or connect to) a seednode. Morphit runs in any browser, on any phone, with no install; uses Blurt (not Monero) for its on-chain coordination layer, which is faster and far cheaper per action (~free vs. Monero's per-op fees); and ships with built-in Tor, Lokinet, and I2P reachability rather than relying on you to configure it. Haveno trades involve arbitrated escrow, which is strong but requires trusted arbitrators per market. Morphit v1 is pure reputation-based bulletin board — no escrow, no arbitrator, full responsibility on the traders to pick partners with real track records. That's a more conservative safety model, but also fewer centralized choke points and no arbitrator role that a government could pressure. On May 20, 2026 the Haveno trade protocol was exploited for approximately $2.7 million. The attack used a forged out-of-order acknowledgment message from a fake arbitrator to redirect the 2-of-3 multisig wallet address before user funds were deposited; RetoSwap halted trading the same day. Morphit's design has no arbitrator role, no multisig escrow, and no central coordination message Haveno's exploit relied on — so this attack class doesn't apply to our threat model. The tradeoff is real and stated above: Morphit users carry full self-custody and lean on signed on-chain reputation rather than an arbitrator's safety net. OpenMonero (a LocalMonero clone) has lost user funds twice in 12 months. On June 6, 2025, a misconfigured firewall + wallet-rpc combination drained roughly 77.85 XMR (~$25,225) from the platform's custodial internal wallet; refunds are still being paid out of trading fees more than a year later, with vendors prioritized over regular users. On May 21, 2026 — one day after the Haveno exploit — a second exploit drained ~40 XMR (~$16,120) from OpenMonero; the platform posted an alert and told users to halt all payments. Morphit has no custodial wallet at all; your XMR never sits on a Morphit server, so this entire attack class has nothing to steal. The pattern is consistent: every Monero P2P platform that holds user funds in an internal wallet has been drained at least once. Morphit's answer is to not hold them in the first place. On privacy: Morphit pushes harder than any of the above on transport, storage, and chat.. Transport: four parallel networks, all first-class (not just an 'onion mode').. Storage: nothing about you lives on Morphit's servers — keys are in your browser, orders are on-chain, chats are on-chain as ciphertext only. Haveno stores trade history on your desktop; Morphit matches that while also letting you move to any device with just your 12-word seed.. Chat: end-to-end encrypted using X25519 key agreement plus ChaCha20-Poly1305 (from libsodium), with a per-message ephemeral key. LocalBitcoins/LocalMonero chats were visible to staff. Haveno chats are end-to-end encrypted. Morphit chat is encrypted on your device, stored as ciphertext on the Blurt blockchain, and decryptable only by the two participants — operators and chain observers see nothing. We deliberately chose a simple, fast, low-bundle-weight ECIES design. On non-custody: LocalBitcoins/LocalMonero held your coins during a trade. Haveno/Retoswap lock your coins in multisig during a trade. Morphit never touches them at any point, period — the seller sends directly to the buyer when payment is confirmed. That is more trust placed on reputation, less on cryptography; honest about the tradeoff. On arbitration: LocalBitcoins/LocalMonero arbitrators could overrule feedback. Haveno arbitrators could redirect multisig payouts. Morphit has no arbitrator role at all; feedback is permanent and signed on chain. If you scam someone, your public key carries that feedback forever; you cannot appeal to a human. That's a strong disincentive for repeat scammers and zero protection for first-time ones — hence the emphasis on checking account age and reputation. What Morphit doesn't have that they do: escrow, human arbitration, per-market moderation. Morphit will never offer any of these. Reintroducing escrow, multisig, or arbitration would reintroduce the middleman this project exists to remove. Morphit's advantage is that it's lean, portable, browser-native, fully decentralized at every layer, and impossible to shut down — and its tradeoff is that you trade on immutable, provable reputation.

Question 4

How is Morphit different from Bisq or BasicSwap?

Accepted Answer

Bisq and BasicSwap are kindred projects in the no-middleman peer-to-peer space, but make different architectural choices than Morphit. Bisq is a long-running peer-to-peer marketplace with the same architectural pattern as Haveno: desktop Java application, 2-of-3 multisig escrow during trades, Tor for transport, arbitrated disputes when something goes wrong. Bisq has been compromised twice with user funds stolen — the kind of risk Morphit avoids by never touching user funds in the first place. Bisq also requires you to lock up BSQ collateral before you can list orders. Morphit locks up nothing from anyone. BasicSwap takes a structurally different approach: cross-chain atomic swaps directly between two wallets, no escrow, no arbitrator, no central server. Aligned with Morphit on the "no middleman" principle. The tradeoffs differ from Morphit's tradeoffs:. Installation gate. BasicSwap is a desktop app (or Docker setup); users have to install and run it before they can even browse the orderbook or see live offers. Morphit's orderbook is a public web page at /orderbook on any instance, browsable from any phone or computer without installing anything.. Heavy local infrastructure. BasicSwap typically runs full nodes for every chain it trades — Bitcoin, Monero, Litecoin, and so on. First-time sync can take hours to days; ongoing storage, CPU, RAM, and bandwidth costs are substantial. Morphit is a browser tab.. Slow swap completion. Cross-chain atomic swaps need multiple block confirmations on both chains to be safe; a single BTC ↔ XMR atomic swap typically takes 30 minutes to several hours of locked coins waiting for time-locks to clear. Morphit's coordination layer finalizes each step on the next Blurt block — about 3 seconds — so the workflow itself never stalls. (The actual asset transfer still depends on whatever chain or payment method the two parties chose; Morphit doesn't claim faster settlement of the underlying coins — just faster coordination on top of whatever the parties chose.). No in-app reputation. BasicSwap has no built-in, network-wide feedback or rating system. Morphit feedback is signed on-chain and follows your public key forever — you carry your reputation with you across every instance.. No E2EE chat. BasicSwap doesn't ship a messaging layer for negotiating, asking questions, or sending payment details — those conversations happen outside the protocol. Morphit chat is end-to-end encrypted on the device and stored as ciphertext on the chain.. Both parties online during the swap. The atomic-swap protocol requires both wallets to be live for the full multi-step exchange; if your counterparty stalls or disappears mid-swap, you wait out the refund timelock (often hours) to recover your coins. Morphit trades don't require simultaneous presence — you post an order, the counterparty acts when they're ready, and either party can return to the trade on their own schedule.. Crypto-only, no fiat. BasicSwap trades crypto-to-crypto only. Morphit additionally supports fiat ↔ crypto in whatever payment method two parties agree on (bank transfer, cash, gift card, in-game currency, whatever they prefer), plus bartering (gold bars, banana trees, whatever).. Mandatory client updates. BasicSwap users must keep their client current to stay compatible with peers, and updates can involve resync work. Morphit auto-updates in the browser like any web page; operators upgrade their server-side instance independently. BasicSwap's strength — true cross-chain atomic swaps with no middleman — is real and a beautiful piece of cryptographic engineering. Morphit makes a different choice: a coordination + reputation layer that works for fiat, crypto and barter, accessible from any browser on any device, where the privacy work happens in transport (Tor/Lokinet/I2P) and chat (E2EE) rather than in a swap protocol alone. Both designs are valid; they serve different users.

Question 5

Is there a video tutorial?

Accepted Answer

Yes — we host short video tutorials on Blurt.media, a decentralized PeerTube/Peerhub instance, also syndicated to the Fediverse and multiple networks. Watch at https://blurt.media (search for "Morphit"). We link out rather than embed because video embeds come with trade-offs for privacy: a PeerTube iframe would expose your IP to other viewers in the P2P swarm. Opening Blurt.media in a new tab keeps you in control. If you use a VPN or Tor Browser (recommended), your IP is already protected and the embed trade-off disappears.

Question 6

Who runs Morphit?

Accepted Answer

The project is open-source; the indexer, posting relay, and support bot can all be run by anyone. The morphit.io instance is operated by Agorise (four geeky agorists), but the whole design assumes morphit.io might go offline — your app keeps working from cache, from mirrors, from Tor, or from Lokinet.

Question 7

What do I need to sign up?

Accepted Answer

Nothing. No email, no phone number, no name. Your browser generates a cryptographic keypair on your device — that is your entire account. Write down the 12-word recovery seed and you're done.

Question 8

Signup isn't working. What do these errors mean?

Accepted Answer

Signup goes through a relay that consumes one of its pre-minted Account Creation Tokens to create your account, so it has to push back on abuse. Most errors you might see are temporary and resolve on their own; a few need you to wait or pick a different relay. The most common cases: "Verifying you're not a name-squatting bot" stuck. The relay is asking your browser to solve a small proof-of-work puzzle (Altcha). It usually takes 1-2 seconds. If it hangs much longer, your browser may have throttled the background work — try closing other tabs or switching to a different browser. Refreshing the page restarts the puzzle with a fresh challenge. "Too many requests from this client" / "rate-limited." This relay caps signups per IP address per hour. If you're sharing a network (school, office, public WiFi) with others who recently signed up, you'll hit the cap even though you personally haven't signed up. Wait an hour, or try from a different network. "Daily signup limit reached on this relay." Each relay sets a daily signup ceiling to bound how many of its pre-minted Account Creation Tokens it will spend per day. The cap resets at UTC midnight. You can wait it out, or — if you're impatient — try a different Morphit instance (linked at the bottom of this page). "You recently created an account. Wait N minutes." A spacing rule: even within the daily cap, the relay enforces a minimum gap between signups from the same IP address. This catches scripted attempts. If you're a real human signing up your second device, just wait. "Signup token was issued to a different connection" (invite_ip_mismatch). Your network address changed between when the relay issued you a signup token and when you submitted the signup. Common on mobile when you switch between WiFi and cellular, or when your home connection's address rotates. Refresh and try again from a stable connection. "Signup is currently unavailable on this relay." The operator has paused signups, usually because they're investigating a potential abuse spike or topping up the relay's Blurt balance. You can wait, or just switch to a different instance (linked at the bottom of this page). "The relay is temporarily unable to fund new accounts." The relay has run out of pre-minted Account Creation Tokens. The operator mints these in a weekly batch and consumes one per signup; if signups outpace the weekly mint, the pool empties early. The operator gets an alert when this happens; usually it's resolved within hours. Switching instances also works. "The chain rejected the transaction" / "broadcast_failed." Generic fallback for chain errors that don't fit the patterns above. Usually transient — try again. If it persists, your chosen account name may have been claimed by someone else in the moment between the relay checking availability and broadcasting; pick a different name. "Account already taken in the last moment." Two people happened to ask for the same name at the same time and the chain accepted the other one. Pick a slightly different name. Account name validation errors. The relay enforces Blurt's account-name rules: 3-16 characters, lowercase ASCII letters / digits / dashes only, must start with a letter, no consecutive dashes, no dots, no leading or trailing dash. The reason code (e.g. "must_start_with_letter") tells you which rule fired. "This name is reserved." The relay refuses to register names that impersonate the project (morphit, morphit-bot, etc.) or close-typo variants of those names. Pick something distinctive. What to do if you're truly stuck: 1. Wait an hour and try again — most rate-limits are short-lived. 2. Try a different network if the issue is IP-based (rate_limited, invite_ip_mismatch). 3. Try a different Morphit instance — operators run their own relays and might not share rate-limit state. 4. If you're seeing repeated chain errors with no obvious cause, the Blurt network itself may be having a moment. Check the Blurt block explorer or wait it out. See also 'What do I need to sign up?' for the requirements check, and 'What is the welcome bonus?' for the next step after registering.

Question 9

Does Morphit require KYC, identity verification, or government ID?

Accepted Answer

No. Morphit never asks for your identity, your name, your phone number, your government ID, a selfie, or proof of address. You don't upload a passport, you don't verify anything. Morphit is KYC-free (Know-Your-Customer-free) because it never holds your money — so there's no regulator forcing it to identify you. The only thing Morphit ever sees is a Blurt account name that you chose yourself. You don't even need an email address. If a site calling itself Morphit asks you for ID, that's not Morphit — that's a phishing scam. Close the tab.

Question 10

Does Morphit work in my country?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Morphit works in every country because Morphit doesn't operate from any specific country — it's a decentralized bulletin board published to a public blockchain. You can browse, post, and trade from anywhere with an internet connection. There are no IP blocks, no country-of-residence checks, no geographic restrictions built into the software. If your country blocks access to crypto services, the Tor / Lokinet / I2P mirrors let you reach Morphit anyway (see the footer icons). That said: please understand your own country's laws about crypto trading. Morphit doesn't enforce any country/corporation's rules — that's between you and the government that you consent to (govern = control, ment = mind. Mind Control). Their flag is their corporate logo. You are a living male or female, not a corpse (hence the term corporation). Starve the beast. #agorism #freemarkets #countereconomics

Question 11

Which fiat currencies (USD, EUR, local money) does Morphit support?

Accepted Answer

All of them. Morphit doesn't restrict fiat currencies; when you post an order you type whichever currency code you want — USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, BRL, INR, NGN, ARS, PHP, anything. The orderbook filter lets other users find your currency. There are no 'unsupported' currencies — if two people want to trade crypto for that currency, they can post about it.

Question 12

Why is Morphit's source mirrored to so many code hosts?

Accepted Answer

Decentralization — it's priority #2 in Morphit's design, right behind privacy. A project that lives in one place can be killed in one place: a platform can suspend the account, a government can order a takedown, a host can simply disappear. So Morphit's source code (AGPL-3.0) is mirrored across many independent code hosts — our own Forgejo server at git.agorise.net is the canonical copy, GitHub is live, and more are being added (Codeberg, GitLab, Bitbucket, SourceForge, Gitee, Launchpad, GitFlic, SourceHut, Radicle), plus a content-addressed copy on IPFS that no single host controls. If any one of them blocks or drops Morphit, every other copy is still there — and because it's AGPL, anyone can re-host, audit, or fork it. The full, current list is on the Get Morphit page. (There's nothing to install from an app store — Morphit runs as a Progressive Web App you add straight from your browser. The mirrors are for the source code, so the project can't be silenced by taking down a single repository.) You can confirm any running instance serves untampered code: each release's SHA-256 hashes are published on the Blurt chain — see /about-this-instance.

Question 13

Can I use Morphit on my iPhone or iPad?

Accepted Answer

Yes — fully, no jailbreak and no App Store needed. Apple rejects apps that facilitate non-KYC peer-to-peer crypto (exactly what Morphit is), so instead of a native app we ship a Progressive Web App. Install it in ~15 seconds: 1. Open this site in Safari (Chrome/Firefox on iOS don't show the install option). 2. Tap Share (the square with an up-arrow). 3. Tap "Add to Home Screen." 4. Confirm the name and tap Add. The icon launches fullscreen like any app. On iOS 16.4+ it caches for offline use and supports notifications; older versions still install without those extras. No APK, IPA, TestFlight, or sideloading on any platform.

Question 14

How do I install Morphit on Android?

Accepted Answer

Open Morphit in Chrome, Brave, or any browser, open the menu (⋮), and tap "Install app" (or "Add to Home screen"). The icon lands on your home screen, runs fullscreen, works offline, and updates itself. There's no APK, so Google's sideloading hurdles don't apply — and that sidesteps the Android install lockdown Google began rolling out in 2026 (developers must register with Google, accept its terms, pay a fee, and hand over government ID before their apps can install). A PWA installs straight from the web, with no developer registration and no gatekeeper who can pull it.

Question 15

Does Morphit work on mobile phones, iPad, or only desktop?

Accepted Answer

Morphit runs in any modern browser — desktop, laptop, tablet, phone. There's no app to install, no permissions to grant. The site is responsive and usable at phone screen sizes. On iOS use Safari or Brave; on Android use Brave, Firefox, or Chrome. Also fully supported: Google Pixel phones and GrapheneOS — GrapheneOS is the privacy-first Android we actually recommend for Morphit users, since it doesn't have Google's sideload restrictions. The Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser both work on desktop; Onion Browser works on iOS; Orbot + Chrome works on Android. No 'native app' is planned — a browser is enough, and building apps would require app-store gatekeepers who could remove us at their discretion.

Question 16

How do I buy crypto?

Accepted Answer

Open the orderbook, filter by the coin you want and your country. Pick a seller with good reputation, open a chat, agree on the details. You pay the seller in your chosen fiat method (cash, bank transfer, etc.), and they send you the crypto. Or just Barter, it's your call. They're all interchangeable. The trade timer gives you several days to complete payment.

Question 17

How do I sell crypto?

Accepted Answer

Post an order listing what you're selling, where you are, and which payment methods you accept. A buyer will open a chat with you to agree on details. When you confirm you received their payment, you send them the crypto (or whatever you guys agreed to exchange). Leave honest feedback when done — it helps everyone.

Question 18

How do I trade on Morphit — a step-by-step walkthrough?

Accepted Answer

Here's the full flow from start to finish. Step 1: Create a free Blurt account (one click, no email, no ID). Step 2: Write down your 12-word recovery phrase on paper (and/or encrypted in an offline password manager like KeePass) and store it somewhere safe. Step 3: Browse the orderbook and find a counterparty whose offer matches what you want — the right asset, the right price, a payment method you can use, good feedback history. Step 4: Open a chat with them using the encrypted chat button on their order. Step 5: Agree on specifics (exact amount, meetup if cash-in-person, which bank account for transfer, etc). Step 6: One of you sends the fiat/crypto first depending on your agreement; the other sees it arrive and sends the other side. Step 7: Leave each other feedback so future traders can see you're trustworthy. That's it. Morphit is just the bulletin board that connects you; the actual trade happens between the two of you directly.

Question 19

Should I trade in person (cash meetup) or online (bank transfer)?

Accepted Answer

Both work. Cash in person is the most private — no paper trail, no bank involvement — but requires physical trust (meet in public, ideally in daytime, maybe bring a friend for larger amounts). Online via bank transfer or payment app is more convenient but creates records your bank can see and potentially reverse (wire reversals, chargebacks). For sellers accepting online fiat: wait for the money to fully clear, not just 'appear pending.' For cash meets: both parties should confirm the on-chain send before parting. Morphit doesn't enforce either style; use whatever matches the trust level of your counterparty and the trade size.

Question 20

Can I trade goods or services on Morphit, like fruit trees or vintage records?

Accepted Answer

Yes — but with a specific shape that takes a moment to grasp. Morphit's order model is always a tradable asset (BTC, XMR, Blurt, USDT, USDC, DAI, BCH, LTC, DASH, or DOGE) on one side, and something else on the other side. The "something else" can be:. A fiat currency (USD, EUR, MXN, COP, NGN — any country's money). A different cryptocurrency (e.g. paying with BTC for an order whose asset is XMR). Goods or services, via the Barter (goods) payment method To trade orange trees for XMR, you would post: side=buy, asset=XMR, payment_methods=[Barter (goods)], fiat_currency=USD (or whatever pricing reference you and the counterparty agree to), and put the specifics in the terms field — for example: "50 healthy orange tree saplings, 30cm+ tall, picked up at my farm in Querétaro, MX. Will release XMR after delivery." Buyers of orange trees who happen to have XMR will respond. To trade BTC for a cherry tree, post: side=sell, asset=BTC, payment_methods=[Barter (goods)], fiat_currency=USD (reference price), terms="Will accept one mature cherry tree (3+ years, healthy) as payment for 0.001 BTC. Delivery to Mexico City." What you cannot model directly: goods-for-goods trades (orange trees for moringa trees, with no crypto involved). One side of every Morphit order has to be a tradable asset (BTC, XMR, Blurt, USDT, USDC, DAI, BCH, LTC, DASH, or DOGE) — that's how the chain anchors the trade and how feedback gets attached to a real on-chain action. For pure barter without crypto, use a different platform. Why this constraint? Three reasons: 1. Reputation needs anchoring. Feedback is signed against an order op on Blurt. The order op references a specific divisible asset (with a quantity, a price, a fee). Pure goods don't fit this shape — there's no "how much of an orange tree" question. 2. The marketplace works because most orders price in a common unit. A buyer scanning the orderbook for XMR/USD < $300 gets a clean list. If half the orders priced in fruit trees and the other half in haircuts, search and matching break down. 3. Disputes are easier when one side is provable on-chain. If you sent BTC and didn't get the cherry tree, the BTC transfer is on-chain forever. The seller can't deny receiving payment. With crypto on at least one side, every Morphit trade has a hard receipt for one half. About payment methods like Bitso, Zelle, PayPal: these are fiat-side rails — they describe HOW the fiat (or a fiat-denominated reference price) gets transferred. "Bitso transfer for moringa trees" doesn't fit the model: Bitso transfers MXN, not moringa trees. Closest model: post a buy XMR order paid via Bitso, then separately use that XMR to buy moringa trees off-platform. Two trades, not one. Vice-versa combinations: every combination of (side, asset, payment_methods, fiat_currency) works as long as the asset is one of Morphit's supported cryptocurrencies. The free-form terms field describes what the trade actually involves on the human-readable side. Common combinations:. Buy/sell BTC for USD via PayPal. Buy/sell XMR for cash in person. Buy/sell Blurt for BTC (crypto-for-crypto). Buy/sell USDT (on Tron, Ethereum, Solana, or BSC) for fiat via Wise or in-person cash. Buy XMR for orange trees (barter, with USD reference price). Sell BTC for a cherry tree (barter, with USD reference price). Sell USDT for raw garlic (barter, with USD reference price). Sell XMR for an in-person cash exchange (payment_methods=[cash])

Question 21

How do I trade cash by mail or ship physical goods through Morphit?

Accepted Answer

Cash-by-mail and shipped-goods trades work like any other Morphit trade, with two extra chat tools: 1. Mailing-address share. In the chat composer, tap "Share mailing address". The form has fields for country, street, city, postal/ZIP code, optional state/province, optional recipient name, optional second line (apt/suite), and an optional note. Your address stays end-to-end encrypted in chat — only you and your trade partner can read it. It is never written to the indexer, on-chain, or anywhere federation-readable. The privacy aside in the modal reminds you that sharing is irreversible (once sent, your partner has it even if you clear the message later) and suggests using a P.O. box, mail-drop service, or virtual mailbox if you don't want to share your home address. 2. Shipment record. After you mail the cash or the goods, tap "Record shipment" in the chat composer. Pick a carrier from the dropdown (USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL Express, Royal Mail, La Poste, Deutsche Post, Poste Italiane, Correos, Poczta Polska, Pochta Rossii, China Post EMS, Hongkong Post, Japan Post, Australia Post, Canada Post, India Post, Iran Post, SF Express, Aramex, or Other with a free-text name + tracking URL), enter the tracking number from your receipt, and optionally add a note ("Shipped today, ETA Friday"). Your partner sees a 📦 Shipped via X pill in chat with a clickable "Track package" link. Tracking number is optional — submit without if you used untracked mail — but recommended as proof of shipment. Safety tips for any physical shipment (shown in the modal aside):. Use a tracked, insured service. If the package is lost or stolen, insurance is your only recourse.. Use a plain envelope or box with no markings suggesting valuables inside.. Return address tradeoff: omitting your return address preserves anonymity but means undeliverable mail gets destroyed. There's no right answer; pick based on your threat model.. Tracking number is optional but strongly recommended. If you're mailing CASH (collapsible expander in the modal):. Wrap the cash in aluminum foil inside the envelope. This defeats people holding envelopes up to bright light to see contents — a well-known soft attack on mailed paper currency.. UPS and FedEx PROHIBIT cash shipments in their terms of service. If they open the package, they can confiscate it with no recourse. Use a postal service instead (USPS, Royal Mail, Deutsche Post, La Poste, etc.).. International: don't lie on customs declarations. High-value cash will be seized regardless of how it's declared. For sellers receiving tracking numbers — sanity-check spoofing. A scammy buyer could paste any random tracking number. Before you ship crypto, look up the tracking number on the carrier's site (📋 Copy the number from the pill, then paste into the carrier's tracker via your normal browser or Tor) and verify the destination ZIP code matches your actual ZIP. If a number resolves to a package being delivered to someone else's city, the buyer is trying to scam you. ELI5 for grandma: You want to buy some Monero (a digital currency) from somebody on Morphit. The seller wants U.S. dollars cash, sent through the mail. Here's what happens: 1. The seller's order says "Selling 0.05 XMR for $100 USD via Cash by mail." 2. You take the order. A chat opens. 3. The seller taps "Share mailing address" and fills in their P.O. box. You see a 📬 pill with the address. You tap "Copy address" to copy it. 4. You go to the post office. You wrap five $20 bills in tinfoil, put them in a plain envelope addressed to that P.O. box, buy USPS Priority Mail with insurance, and write down the tracking number from your receipt. 5. Back in Morphit chat, you tap "Record shipment", pick USPS, paste the tracking number, and send. 6. The seller sees a 📦 pill with your tracking number and clicks "Track package" to verify on the USPS site that the destination ZIP matches their P.O. box's ZIP. 7. A few days later, the package arrives. The seller picks it up, opens it, counts the cash, and then sends the 0.05 XMR to your Monero wallet (via Morphit's existing "Share address" + "Mark as sent" flow). 8. You leave each other positive feedback. Done. Limitations. Morphit does not arbitrate disputes. If your cash gets lost in the mail and you didn't use insurance, that's between you and the carrier — Morphit cannot recover it. If the seller takes your cash and never sends the crypto, file a feedback report and the community sees their reputation drop, but Morphit cannot reverse the cash transfer. The same is true for any P2P platform that doesn't custody funds. Insurance + verified addresses + good carrier choice + small first trades to build trust are your real protections.

Question 22

Is there a minimum or maximum trade size on Morphit?

Accepted Answer

No hard limits — the software doesn't enforce any. You can post an order for 5 USD worth of BTC, or 50,000 USD worth. What matters is finding a counterparty willing to match your size, which is easier in the middle (50-500 USD range) and harder at the extremes. For very small trades, fees and payment-method minimums may make it impractical; for very large trades, split across several smaller ones with feedback between each to reduce counterparty risk. Some payment methods have their own limits (bank wire minimums, daily transfer caps) — check before agreeing.

Question 23

How long do orders stay open?

Accepted Answer

Orders stay visible for up to 90 days by default (you can change this 1–90 days). You have 15 minutes after posting to replace an order for typos; after that it's locked. Trades themselves happen off-platform — Morphit coordinates the order match, but you and your counterparty agree on the payment timeline directly via the encrypted chat. Most pairs settle within hours; long-running disputes are rare because feedback discipline incentivizes both sides to close out quickly. If your order expires without a match, you can re-list it from /my/orders with one click.

Question 24

Can I fix or cancel an order after posting?

Accepted Answer

You have 15 minutes after posting to replace an order (for typos or wrong numbers). After 15 minutes, or as soon as someone expresses interest in trading, the order is locked. You can still cancel it — cancellation is its own on-chain action, always allowed before a trade begins. Technically: Blurt's custom_json ops are permanent and not editable at the protocol level, so Morphit handles 'edits' by posting a tiny replacement op that references the original. Both versions live on chain forever — anyone can audit the full history — but indexers only accept replacements posted within the 15-minute window. Why 15 minutes? A longer window is an attack: a seller could post favorable terms, wait for a buyer to start negotiating, then silently worsen them. Fifteen minutes is enough to catch a typo during proofreading, short enough that no real conversation has started.

Question 25

My order isn't showing up. What does the fee status mean?

Accepted Answer

When you post an order, Morphit needs to confirm your network fee was paid before showing it on the public orderbook. Your "My orders" page shows the fee status next to each order. Five things you might see: Verified. Your fee landed and matched what was expected. The order is on the orderbook. Nothing else to do. Verified (attested). You paid in BTC or XMR, and at least two community members vouched for the payment after the indexer couldn't reach a block explorer in time. Same outcome — your order is live. Awaiting attestation. You paid in BTC or XMR, but the block explorers were unreachable when the indexer first looked. The order is on hold until two attestors confirm the payment, or until the order expires. This usually resolves itself within minutes; if it lingers, your transaction may not have confirmed on the BTC/XMR chain yet. Fee didn't arrive / fee too low. The indexer didn't see a fee transfer at all (didn't arrive), or the transfer was below the expected amount (too low). Possible reasons:. The fee transfer didn't broadcast successfully (network glitch, wrong recipient).. For Blurt fees: the amount sent was below the expected baseline, or below the current Sybil-tier amount if you've been posting a lot recently.. For BTC/XMR fees: the amount in satoshis or piconero was below what the operator currently configures.. The transaction memo didn't bind the fee to this specific order — every fee includes a memo like morphit-fee:<order-permlink> that ties it to one listing. Reused. The transaction ID you submitted was already used to verify a different order. Each external (BTC/XMR) payment can only fund one listing — submitting the same txid twice rejects the second attempt. If you see a non-verified status that doesn't resolve itself, the simplest fix is usually to cancel the order and post a fresh one. Network fees are small enough that the cost of retrying isn't significant.

Question 26

Can I share a link to my order?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every order has a shareable URL in the form /@username/order-permlink. This is the same page anyone visiting Morphit can use to read your full offer — terms, payment methods, location, your reputation — and it works without signing in. You can post the link on Nostr, paste it into a chat, share it in a forum. The page is public by design; ordering decisions benefit from being link-shareable the same way any marketplace listing is. The permlink itself is stable for the life of the order, so the link keeps working until the order is cancelled, filled, or expires.

Question 27

What happens if my trading partner disappears or stops responding mid-trade?

Accepted Answer

This is why reputation matters. Morphit has no escrow, no arbitration, no customer service that can reverse a trade — so if someone sends crypto first and then the counterparty vanishes without paying, the crypto is gone. Protect yourself: (1) only trade with accounts that have strong feedback history and visible trade volume, (2) for larger amounts, split the trade into smaller pieces and check feedback between each, (3) use the immutable, encrypted chat to confirm every step so there's a trail if things go wrong, (4) if you're the seller, wait for the fiat to fully clear before releasing crypto (bank transfers can be reversed for days). If someone scams you, leave provable, sourced, detailed, honest feedback so the next person sees the warning. You only get one feedback field per trade, so make it count. Feedback is on-chain and permanent. If people are going to trust you, your reputation is everything.

Question 28

What are the fees?

Accepted Answer

Three things to know: 1. Morphit never takes a cut of your trade itself. The price you and your counterparty agree on is the price you receive — nothing is skimmed. Morphit isn't an escrow and doesn't touch your funds. 2. Posting an order costs a small network fee:. $0.25 USD-equivalent if you pay in BTC or XMR (full price). $0.125 USD-equivalent if you pay in Blurt (a deliberate 50% discount) The discount exists because Morphit's coordination layer runs on Blurt's blockchain with 3-second confirmation times. Paying in Blurt is the default option, costs half as much, and counts toward loyalty-milestone Blurt Power (BP) rewards (see "How loyalty rewards work"). The compose screen shows the exact amount in your chosen currency before you sign — no surprises. 3. Your very first buy order is free. We waive the network fee on your first-ever buy — a small welcome gift so new traders can try Morphit risk-free. See "Is my first order really free?" for the details. There's also an optional "featured" slot you can bid on if you want your order to stand out — a per-hour cost that you only pay if you actively want the visibility. A note on the spam-deterrent escalation: post a lot of orders quickly (4+ in a 24-hour window) and the per-order fee starts climbing. This is the anti-Sybil tier — it bites spammers far more than real users, who rarely post more than 2-3 listings in a day. The compose screen shows you the current tier multiplier before you sign so there's no surprise. The Sybil escalation only applies to Blurt-paid orders; BTC and XMR fees are flat at the base rate.

Question 29

Is my first order really free?

Accepted Answer

Yes — and it's a really generous one. Your first order on Morphit is a free buy of at least 500 Blurt (~$1). We cover the listing fee. One free order per account, for life. Why Blurt specifically, and not BTC or XMR? Because the Blurt in your wallet is what makes you an active participant in everything else on Morphit. With 500+ Blurt, you can:. Pay listing fees on ~8 future orders at the discounted Blurt rate (60 Blurt each — 50% off the BTC/XMR rate). Vote on Blurt social content at blurt.blog, blurt.media, etc. and earn curation rewards. You also earn Blurt coins when people click "Like" on your posts.. Receive a 1 BP delegation as your welcome stake (fires automatically on your first Blurt-paid listing fee). After your first completed trade, receive 10 Blurt liquid + 10 Blurt Power as the welcome bonus Without the Blurt in your wallet, you'd start with no way to pay future listing fees at the discount, no Blurt voting weight, and no path into the loyalty-milestone reward tiers. We thought a long time about this — handing new users some Blurt instead of "any first crypto" sets you up to be active rather than stranded. Why a 500 Blurt minimum? That's the threshold that makes the rest of the math work: enough to cover ~8 future listings at the discounted rate. If we let the waiver apply to a tiny 1-Blurt buy, you'd leave the flow with effectively no starter balance and the bonus wouldn't help you. 500 Blurt (~$1 at typical recent prices) is the minimum that turns the waiver into a meaningful starter pack. The waiver is offered automatically when you visit /post and start composing your first order. The Review step shows a green "🌱 First order is free" panel with the waiver pre-selected. You can decline if you'd rather save the waiver for a future trade — it never expires. What "free" means here: Morphit covers the listing fee for this one order. You don't pay any network fee. The trade itself happens off-platform between you and your counterparty (they send you Blurt, you pay them whatever fiat or other thing you agreed on); Morphit doesn't touch your funds at any point. After your first trade: the waiver is consumed and the normal fee structure applies — $0.25 in BTC/XMR or $0.125 in Blurt (the 50% Blurt discount is permanent). See "What are the fees?" for the full pricing.

Question 30

What is the welcome bonus and how do I earn it?

Accepted Answer

There are actually three welcome rewards on Morphit, and they fire at different moments: 1. First listing-fee payment in Blurt → 1 BP delegated. The moment you pay your first Blurt listing fee — even before any trade matches or completes — Morphit delegates 1 BP (Blurt Power) to your account. This is a tiny, one-time "welcome to the network" stake that starts earning APR/curation rewards immediately. It fires regardless of whether your order eventually finds a counterparty. Once-per-account. 2. First completed trade → 10 Blurt liquid + 10 Blurt Power. When you complete your first actual trade (counterparty signs feedback citing the order), Morphit sends you 10 Blurt liquid plus 10 Blurt Power (≈13 BP of voting weight). "Completed" means: you posted an order, a counterparty responded, the trade settled off-platform, and the counterparty signed positive feedback about you that cites your order. That feedback is what triggers this bonus — it's proof of a real trade with another human, not just a posted-and-abandoned order. 3. Loyalty milestones → up to 1,260 BP. As you pay more Blurt fees over time, you cross 100/500/2,000/10,000 Blurt thresholds and receive delegation increases (10/50/200/1,000 BP at each tier). See the loyalty FAQ for details. Why the staggered design: handing out the full bonus at signup would be farmed by Sybil accounts in minutes. The 1 BP welcome on first paid fee is a small enough amount that Sybil farming is unprofitable ($0.125 cost per attacker per 1 BP), and the larger 10 Blurt liquid + 10 Blurt Power requires real trade evidence (counterparty feedback). Both add up to meaningful staking weight for honest users. If you trade exclusively in non-Blurt assets (BTC, XMR, USDT, USDC, DAI, BCH, LTC, DASH, DOGE, ZEC, ARRR, DCR, SOL, ETH, or XRP) and never pay a Blurt listing fee, you'll receive the 10 Blurt liquid + 10 Blurt Power from your first completed trade but not the 1 BP first-fee welcome (which is Blurt-fee-gated). The Blurt bonus is harmless to receive and ignore — it can sit in your account indefinitely or cover future network fees. The rewards arrive as delegate_vesting_shares and transfer ops from @morphit-relay in your account history.

Question 31

How do loyalty rewards work? (The BP milestones I saw mentioned)

Accepted Answer

Every time you pay a listing fee in Blurt, your cumulative lifetime spending with Morphit is tracked. When you cross certain thresholds, Morphit sends you a Blurt Power (BP) delegation as a thank-you. Four tiers:. 100 Blurt paid cumulatively → 10 BP delegated. 500 Blurt paid cumulatively → 50 BP delegated . 2,000 Blurt paid cumulatively → 200 BP delegated. 10,000 Blurt paid cumulatively → 1,000 BP delegated The thresholds measure cumulative lifetime Blurt fees paid — they don't reset, and they don't require the fees to be recent. If you pay 100 Blurt of fees over two years of trading, you still get the 10 BP reward the moment you cross the threshold. BP (Blurt Power) gives you voting weight on Blurt content across blurt.blog, blurt.media, and any other Blurt frontend. It's a "you matter more in this network" stake. You don't spend it by voting; your voting weight refills over time. And votes you cast can earn you curation rewards when you vote early on content that later becomes popular. Important mechanics to know:. The milestones only count fees paid in Blurt. BTC/XMR fees and waived-first-buy orders don't count toward the thresholds. This is deliberate — the loyalty program exists to reward users who support the Blurt economy.. The reward is a DELEGATION, not a transfer. Morphit delegates BP to your account, and retains the ability to undelegate if the account is later found to be engaged in abuse (fake trades, sybil attacks). For honest users this never matters.. Each tier fires once per account. If you cross 100 Blurt, then later 500, you get 10 BP + 50 BP = 60 BP total delegated. Not "the bigger tier replaces the smaller" — they add up.. You see the milestone arrive as a delegate_vesting_shares op from @morphit-relay in your account history. It shows up in Blurt wallet UIs as incoming BP. These four loyalty tiers stack on top of two earlier welcome rewards: the 1 BP delegation you receive on your first Blurt-paid listing fee, and the 10 Blurt liquid + 10 Blurt Power you receive after your first completed trade. Together, an active trader can accumulate up to 1,261 BP in total delegations over their Morphit lifetime, all of which translates directly into voting weight in the wider Blurt social network. See the welcome-bonus FAQ for the full three-tier reward system.

Question 32

What is the featured slot and how does the auction work?

Accepted Answer

Featured slots are the top 5 highest-paying orders that appear at the top of the orderbook page in a special highlighted section. They get more visibility than the regular orderbook list — useful when you want a fast trade and are willing to pay a small fee to be seen first. How bidding works. You bid by paying Blurt into the Morphit fee account along with a morphit_feature_bid_v1 op naming your order and the number of hours you want featured time. The rate you pay (Blurt per hour) determines your rank: the 5 highest-rate active bids are visible at any moment. Bid rules:. Minimum bid duration: 6 hours. Prevents one-hour cheap-shots from displacing serious multi-day bidders.. Maximum bid duration: 1 week (168 hours) per bid.. Min-bid increment: if your bid would displace someone currently visible, you must beat them by at least max(1 Blurt/hour, 5%). Prevents penny-war bidding spam. What you pay: rate × hours, in Blurt, transferred to the Morphit fee account when you submit the bid. The fee is non-refundable — see the What happens if I get outbid? entry for what "non-refundable" means in practice. Who sees featured slots: every visitor to the orderbook page on every Morphit instance. Featured-slot rendering is part of the standard orderbook view, not opt-in.

Question 33

What happens to my featured slot if someone outbids me?

Accepted Answer

Your bid stays alive — you don't lose your money — but you lose visibility until the higher bidder's slot ends or you're un-displaced. Concretely: Morphit shows the top 5 highest-paying active bids. If a 6th bidder posts a meaningfully higher rate (max of 1 Blurt/hour or 5% above the current 5th-place bid — small increments are rejected to prevent grief-displacement), you drop to position 6 and become invisible in the featured section. Your bid record stays in the indexer. When any of the bids above you expires (their hours run out), you bubble up. If you eventually rise back into the top 5 before your own hours expire, you become visible again. No refund for displaced minutes. This is deliberate. Refunds would require re-broadcasting transfer ops on every displacement — operationally messy and would create a perverse incentive (bid high, get displaced, get refunded, repeat). The simple rule is: you paid for N hours of eligibility for the featured slot, not N hours of guaranteed visibility. How to avoid being displaced:. Watch the current top-5 rates before bidding. If the lowest visible rate is 10 Blurt/hour, bidding 8 Blurt/hour means you're queued, not visible.. Bid for shorter durations. 6 hours of guaranteed-visible time is often more useful than 24 hours of "might get displaced midway.". Bid during low-traffic times. Featured-slot competition is higher when more traders are posting. Two protections built into the platform:. Outbid push notifications. If you've subscribed to Web Push (Settings → Notifications), Morphit sends a notification the moment you drop out of the top 5, with a deep-link to the affected order in /my/orders. You'll know within seconds — you don't have to refresh the orderbook manually.. Anti-snipe soft-close. A late bidder can't insta-displace you at T-2 seconds: when a new bid arrives within 5 minutes of an expiring top-5 bid's deadline, that deadline auto-extends by 5 minutes. The extension can fire up to 6 times per bid (30 minutes total drag), giving you real time to counter. Your bid history shows an "Extended ×N" chip when anti-snipe has fired on one of your bids. Recap: outbid = you stay queued, no refund, you get a push notification if subscribed, anti-snipe gives you time to counter, and you reappear when slots above you expire.

Question 34

Where do I buy Blurt to use as a network fee?

Accepted Answer

Buy it on Morphit itself — that's the whole point. Morphit is a peer-to-peer marketplace; Blurt is one of the sixteen assets traded here, alongside BTC, XMR, USDT, USDC, DAI, BCH, LTC, DASH, DOGE, ZEC, ARRR, DCR, SOL, ETH, and XRP. Visit /orderbook, filter for Blurt sell orders, and message a counterparty. You pay them in whatever fiat or method they accept; they send Blurt to your Blurt account. Done. Your first order is free. New users get a one-time waiver that covers the listing fee on their first Blurt buy — see "Is my first order really free?" for details. So your first Blurt acquisition can also be your first trade on Morphit, with no exchange account, no card, and no KYC required. The waiver is offered automatically when you compose your first order. Last-resort alternative: if you genuinely cannot find a counterparty on the Morphit orderbook (the orderbook is small in some regions), Klingex.io runs a Blurt/USDT trading pair as a centralized-exchange fallback. We mention it for completeness but treat it as an emergency option — every Blurt bought through Klingex is a trade Morphit didn't get, and the goal of the project is to grow the peer-to-peer orderbook, not to send users off-site. If you do go this route, the trade page is at https://klingex.io/trade/Blurt-USDT and you'll need to deposit USDT to swap into Blurt. Withdraw to your own Blurt wallet immediately rather than leaving funds on the exchange. Once you have Blurt in your wallet, paying a Morphit listing fee is automatic — choose "Pay in Blurt" on the post-order screen and Morphit deducts the configured fee directly from your Blurt balance with no extra steps.

Question 35

Why did Morphit choose the Blurt blockchain?

Accepted Answer

We needed a public social blockchain — and that constraint eliminated almost everything else on the market. Privacy-focused chains like Monero (which we love and trade as a primary asset) are built around hiding amounts, addresses, and metadata. Their users — rightly — refuse to broadcast structured public data because that's antithetical to the whole reason those chains exist. You can't run a public orderbook, immutable reputation system, or auditable trade history on a surveillance-resistant chain; the surveillance resistance is the whole point. But Morphit's coordination layer needs the opposite: orders, prices, feedback, and order announcements that ANYONE can read and verify, without trusting Morphit. So we needed a chain explicitly designed for public structured data — a SOCIAL chain. After auditing the field (Hive, Steem, Blurt, Lens, Farcaster, ATProto), Blurt won on every metric that mattered: 1. Three-second block times. Real-time orderbook updates. New orders confirm in seconds, not minutes — fast enough that high-frequency traders can place and accept orders without lag, and fast enough to prevent eBay-style last-second sniping. There's no time window where someone can rush in and grab an order ahead of a buyer who saw it first. 2. Throughput exceeding Visa + Mastercard combined. Blurt's witness network can process more transactions per second than every major card network put together. Morphit will never compete with Blurt social-content posts for chain capacity. Listing fees stay tiny because there's no congestion. 3. Transactions are essentially free. No mining. No gas auctions. No priority-fee arms races. Posting an order, broadcasting feedback, sending an encrypted chat message — these cost effectively zero in chain fees. Morphit's $0.125 listing fee isn't a chain cost; it's a project decision (anti-Sybil + cover account-creation costs). On a chain like Ethereum or Bitcoin, the fees alone would make a $5 trade impossible. 4. Built-in end-to-end encrypted chat. Buyer–seller conversations live on chain as encrypted ciphertexts. Permanent, verifiable, decentralized — and only the two parties hold the keys to read them. Trade-coordination history is durable for posterity (and for any future dispute, you have a courtroom-grade record). 5. Scammer and spammer prevention. On-chain identity costs something to create. Posting an order costs something. Sybil tiers escalate fees if you post many orders quickly. Combined with the immutable feedback system, the chain itself is hostile to bad actors. Real traders pay tiny fees; spammers pay rapidly-growing ones. 6. Immutable public feedback proving reputation. Every star rating, every comment, every response — permanently recorded, impossible to edit, impossible to delete. If people are going to trust you, your reputation is everything — and Blurt makes that reputation provably yours and provably unfakeable. 7. Fully distributed federated DEX orderbook. Because the orders live on chain, any operator running their own Morphit indexer sees the SAME orderbook in real-time. There's no central server to attack, no central database to subpoena, no single point of failure. A buyer on instance A sees orders posted through instance B without any cross-server coordination — the chain is the coordination. Multi-site instance runners give the network resilience that no centralized exchange can match. Blurt is also a social token: holding it gives you posting and voting weight on Blurt content platforms like blurt.blog, blurt.media, and others. So when you pay Morphit listing fees in Blurt, you're not just paying for trade infrastructure — you're directly building stake in a free-speech social network. The loyalty milestones (see the loyalty FAQ) deliberately reward Blurt-paid fees because we want the Blurt economy to thrive alongside Morphit's. 8. Blurt is, by design, an anonymous social reputation chain — and that's the exact thing Morphit needs. Blurt accounts have no KYC, no email, no real-name requirement. What they have is a stable cryptographic identity that can accumulate posts, votes, and a public on-chain track record over time. Morphit's reputation system needs exactly the same primitive: traders should be pseudonymous (no real-name disclosure) AND have a durable, unforgeable, publicly-auditable track record. We didn't have to graft a reputation system onto a non-reputation chain; we built on a chain that was already designed around the anonymous-but-accountable model that Morphit's feedback layer extends. TL;DR: privacy chains can't host public coordination, transparent chains have congestion problems, slow block times kill order matching, and only Blurt combines social-chain design + 3-second blocks + free transactions + social-token economics in one package.

Question 36

What is Blurt and why does Morphit sometimes mention it?

Accepted Answer

Morphit settles its on-chain coordination on a public ledger called Blurt. The ledger's native unit is also called Blurt — every block, every signature, every fee transfer flows through it. You can think of Blurt as the gas token for the coordination layer, the same way ETH is gas for Ethereum, but smaller and quieter. You don't have to interact with Blurt to trade BTC, XMR, USDT, USDC, DAI, BCH, LTC, DASH, DOGE, ZEC, ARRR, DCR, SOL, ETH, or XRP on Morphit. If your operator accepts BTC or XMR for the network fee (most do), you can list orders, message counterparties, and complete trades without ever touching Blurt. Why does it come up at all? Three reasons: 1. Network fees can be paid in Blurt as an alternative to BTC/XMR. Some users prefer this because Blurt confirmations are instant — no waiting for external block explorers. If your operator has only Blurt configured for fees, this is the path you'll use. 2. The welcome bonus is denominated in Blurt (a small one-time gift after your first successful trade). It's harmless to ignore, or you can spend it on future network fees. 3. Your Blurt balance gives you voting weight on Blurt-social frontends like blurt.blog. That's outside Morphit's scope but if you find yourself with Blurt and curious, those are your options. Morphit is built on Blurt because the ledger's design (low transaction overhead, free posts, public-by-default state) fits a peer-to-peer trade venue better than the alternatives we evaluated. We treat the ledger as plumbing — necessary, deliberately chosen, but not something you should have to think about while trading.

Question 37

How do I stake my Blurt (power up to BP) to earn interest?

Accepted Answer

Staking Blurt means converting your liquid Blurt into Blurt Power (BP) — a process Blurt calls "powering up." Staked Blurt earns roughly 2% interest a year (APR) (the live rate is computed from the chain's inflation and shown in-app), strengthens your upvotes, and earns curation rewards. It's your own coin the whole time — not a deposit, not a loan, not held by anyone else. The easiest way is a Blurt wallet. Open BlurtWallet.com (https://blurtwallet.com), log in with your Blurt account, find your liquid Blurt balance, and choose Power Up. Enter the amount and confirm. That's it — your Blurt is now BP and starts earning. Morphit itself isn't a wallet, so we don't hold or move your Blurt for you; powering up happens directly on the Blurt blockchain through a wallet you control. If you ever want liquid Blurt back, you power down, which releases it gradually over about four weeks (this gradual unstake is a Blurt protocol rule, not a Morphit one).

Question 38

Where does the Blurt price displayed on Morphit come from?

Accepted Answer

The Blurt/USD price you see next to listing fees on Morphit (the "~$0.12" subtext beside the Blurt amount) comes from a layered price-source chain designed to reduce reliance on any single external service. The chain, in priority order: 1. Klingex.io — A Centralised Exchange (CEX). Provides Blurt/USDT live prices. 2. Coingecko — Aggregates Blurt prices across multiple exchanges. Used when Klingex is unavailable or rate-limited. 3. morphit_native — A SELF-SOVEREIGN price derived from on-platform trade data (opt-in per operator; off by default until your instance has enough volume to support it). When enabled, this fetcher looks at recent verified-fee orders that traded Blurt against USD-fiat or stablecoins, applies several layers of manipulation defense, and computes a median across distinct traders. Slotted between Coingecko and the static floor — external sources remain primary until an operator explicitly opts in to preferring the native value during disagreement. 4. Static fallback — An operator-set floor value (default $0.002) used when all upstreams have failed. Editable in the setup wizard. Why a chain instead of one source? No single price feed can be trusted unconditionally. Klingex could be rate-limited, taken down by its host's regulator, or compromised. Coingecko could be the same. A static fallback drifts from reality. The chain means Blurt pricing keeps working in every scenario short of the entire internet going down. How morphit_native works (when enabled — see ADR-0039 for full design):. Tiered anchors: Tier 1 (highest priority) uses Blurt-vs-USD direct orders (bank transfer, cash, etc.); Tier 2 supplements with Blurt-vs-stablecoin orders (USDT/USDC/DAI); Tier 3 combines both pools when each alone is too thin.. Cross-stablecoin depeg detection: independent ratios between USDT/USDC/DAI on Morphit identify when any one of them is off-peg. Depegged stablecoins are excluded from Tier 2; Tier 1 (which doesn't depend on stablecoin peg assumptions) continues working.. Sybil resistance: each contributing trader must have at least one prior verified-fee completed trade AND must NOT appear in any of the cp123-cp125 reputation signal tables (suspicious_reciprocity, related_accounts, one_way_pile_on, review_concentration). Price manipulation requires the same level of effort as reputation manipulation.. Per-trader contribution cap: each distinct account contributes ONE vote (their own median price) regardless of how many orders they posted. A whale with 50 orders is still 1 vote of N.. Order-age grace period: orders must have existed for at least 10 minutes before they qualify, defeating "post-and-cancel" manipulation races.. Smoothing cap: large per-cycle price moves are dampened to prevent flash manipulation.. Long-term drift monitor: a 7-day exponential baseline catches slow-drift attacks where each individual move is small but the cumulative drift is large.. Cross-source disagreement detector: when morphit_native and external sources disagree by more than 25% for 4+ hours, an alert fires in the indexer logs and /v1/health.. Hardcoded outer plausibility envelope: operator config can tighten the price-range filter but cannot widen it past the hardcoded bounds, preventing a captured operator from displaying wildly wrong prices. The "verify yourself" endpoint: GET /v1/price/morphit-native/receipt returns the full set of inputs that produced the current native price — which tier was used, which traders contributed (just account names; their orders are already publicly visible in the orderbook), the cross-stablecoin depeg report, plausibility envelope settings, and a NOT-AN-ORACLE warning. Anyone can audit; no opaque "trust the indexer" required. IMPORTANT: morphit_native is NOT designed to be an oracle for other systems. It's for Morphit's internal USD display courtesy only. Don't use it as a price input to lending protocols, DEXes, or any value-bearing system. The price is manipulation-resistant for DISPLAY purposes (where small inaccuracies are tolerable) but not bulletproof against the kind of attack a determined adversary mounts when real money depends on the value being correct. See ADR-0039 for the threat model. Why this matters for your trades: Blurt-paid listing fees are denominated in Blurt directly, not USD. The USD echo you see ("~$0.12 USD") is a visual courtesy — it can be slightly off without breaking anything. Your actual fee is whatever Blurt amount the indexer quotes, settled at chain time. The price source's job is to make that USD echo informative, not to be a source of truth for downstream financial systems. Pre-launch note: Until enough on-platform trade volume exists for morphit_native to qualify (requires ≥3 distinct verified-fee traders posting Blurt-vs-USD or Blurt-vs-stablecoin orders in the last 8 hours), every instance falls back to Klingex/Coingecko/static. Operators turn on morphit_native via MORPHIT_INDEXER_PRICE_FEED_NATIVE_ENABLED=true when their data is mature. cp128 update — denomination is operator-configurable. Although the discussion above uses USD as the example, the indexer's displayed unit isn't hardcoded to USD. Operators set MORPHIT_INDEXER_PRICE_FEED_DENOMINATION_FIAT (default USD) to any 3-8 character uppercase ticker — EUR (Euro), GBP (British Pound), JPY (Japanese Yen), BRL (Brazilian Real), CNY (Chinese Yuan), INR (Indian Rupee), RUB (Russian Ruble), AED (UAE Dirham), XDR (IMF Special Drawing Rights basket), XAU (gold ounces, a hard-currency hedge), or any other ticker their market uses. The listing-fee response carries a denomination_fiat field telling the frontend which unit the blurt_price_fiat + base_fee_fiat numbers are in, so the UI renders the appropriate symbol and formatting ("$0.12" for USD, "€0.11" for EUR, "XAU 0.0000023" for gold, etc.). This isn't just for the hypothetical USD-collapse scenario — operators serving non-USD-native markets benefit today.

Question 39

What is Mana on Blurt?

Accepted Answer

On Blurt, Mana is the per-account capacity that lets you do things on the chain — post, comment, vote, and (in Morphit's case) submit orders, broadcast feedback, send chat messages. Think of Mana like a video-game stamina bar that refills on its own. Every action you take spends a little. The bar slowly recharges over the next few hours and days. If you're a normal user, you'll basically never notice it — Blurt's design refills Mana fast enough that you can do dozens of things per day without thinking about it. Mana is the answer to the spam question: "if posting on a blockchain is free, why doesn't everyone just spam?" Because spamming would burn through your Mana bar in seconds, and then you'd have to wait it out while everyone else's actions go through normally. Blurt's economy uses this to throttle abuse without anyone needing to charge fees on each post. The size of your Mana bar is roughly proportional to how much Blurt you're holding (specifically, Blurt Power — staked Blurt). New accounts get a small starter amount, which is why the welcome bonus includes some Blurt Power: it bumps up your bar so you can use Morphit smoothly from day one. Note on terminology. You may see this called "RC" or "Resource Credits" in older Blurt documentation, on the Steem network it forked from, or in our internal code comments. Mana is the modern Blurt name, and what we use everywhere a normal user can see.

Question 40

How does Morphit chat work?

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Morphit chat is end-to-end encrypted messaging between two traders. Messages are encrypted on your device, stored as ciphertext on the Blurt blockchain, and decrypted only by the recipient's device. No Morphit server, operator, or chain observer ever sees plaintext. What you get:. Durable. Close the tab, come back tomorrow, the conversation is still there. Messages live on the blockchain; they persist without Morphit running any server.. Private. Only you and your counterparty can read the message content. Ciphertexts on chain are opaque blobs to everyone else.. No setup. You don't manage a chat key. Your chat identity is derived automatically from your posting key when you open chat for the first time.. Operator-resistant. Morphit's operators route broadcasts but can't decrypt them. Even if one operator were compromised, your chat content stays private. What's visible on chain (not private):. Who you chatted with, and when. Sender, recipient, and timestamp are on-chain metadata, not encrypted. (ie: @scooby chatted (something illegible) with @dingleberry). Rough message size — an attacker can see roughly the size of the message that they sent. If you need fully metadata-private messaging, use something like Session (getsession.org) or Signal out-of-band alongside Morphit for sensitive details.

Question 41

Are my chats private?

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Your chat content is fully private — encrypted end-to-end between you and your counterparty. Only your two devices hold the keys to decrypt. What's private:. Message text. Any payment details, addresses, or negotiation you exchange What's not private (metadata, visible on chain):. Your counterparty's account handle (@scooby, @dingleberry, etc). Timestamps of when each message was sent. Approximate message size Cryptography used:. X25519 key agreement (elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman). ChaCha20-Poly1305 authenticated encryption. Fresh ephemeral key per message These are standard, well-audited primitives (from libsodium). The protocol is a simple ECIES design documented in ADR-0015. If your threat model requires different properties like per-message forward secrecy, use a dedicated secure messenger — good options include Matrix/Element, Session, Keybase, and Signal. (Morphit complements but doesn't replace a dedicated secure messenger.)

Question 42

How does the chat inbox work? Can I mute or unmute someone?

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The chat inbox lives at the chat icon in the header and has two tabs: Messages — conversations where you've sent at least one reply. These are people you've already engaged with; they get the traditional inbox treatment (latest activity on top, unread counts, full-history scroll-back). Requests — inbound-only conversations from people you haven't replied to yet. Strangers who paid the layer-2 fee to reach you (see 'How does Morphit stop spam and unsolicited messages from strangers?' below) land here. The Requests tab keeps cold contacts visually separate from your active trade conversations so you don't lose track of an in-flight deal among first-contact noise. Unread counts appear next to each tab and on the chat icon in the header. The first time you reply to a Requests conversation, it transitions to Messages on next inbox load and you'll see a brief 'moved to Messages' confirmation toast. Smart-default open tab. When you open the inbox and Messages is empty but Requests has new content, it opens on Requests automatically — so a brand-new user pinged for the first time doesn't land on an empty Messages tab. Mute / unmute (block + unblock). Inside any conversation, the header has a Block button. Clicking it asks for confirmation, then broadcasts an on-chain block op — that account can no longer reach you from any of their existing handles, and the indexer enforces it server-side regardless of which Morphit instance the sender uses. To unmute, go to Settings → Blocked accounts: you'll see your full block list, and each entry has an Unblock button. Unblocking is also an on-chain op and takes effect immediately. Dismiss (soft hide). Don't want to make a public block but also don't want a stranger's request cluttering your inbox? Use Dismiss in the Requests tab. It hides the conversation locally (per-browser, never on-chain, never visible to the other party) and you can restore it from Settings → Hidden accounts. Unlike block, dismiss doesn't notify or signal anything to the dismissed account. Block vs Dismiss vs Hide: Block is on-chain and protocol-level (cross-instance, cross-account-history). Dismiss is your inbox curation, local-only. Hide (the orderbook button — see 'Can I hide orders from specific users?' below) is the same per-browser local-hide concept extended to orderbook rows. Desktop and mobile both get optional push notifications for new messages — see 'How do push notifications work with my privacy?' for the privacy footprint. Notifications can be turned off at any time from Settings.

Question 43

How does Morphit stop spam and unsolicited messages from strangers?

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Three layers, designed so that small-scale legitimate first contact stays cheap while mass spam becomes expensive fast. Layer 1 — Block list. You can block any account on-chain. The indexer enforces it: blocked sender's messages to you simply don't land, no notification, no UI surface. They can't bypass by switching accounts unless they're willing to pay the layer-2 stranger fee from each new account, and even then you'll see the new account in your Requests tab and can block it too. Layer 2 — Stranger fee per recipient (with rapid-send escalation). A first message from someone you've never exchanged with requires either a paid stranger-fee transaction (about $0.01 in Blurt, equivalent at the time of payment) sent to the operator's fees account, OR a prior message from you to them. Once any message has flowed in either direction between the two of you, the pair is unrestricted forever — replies don't cost anything. The fee doubles for every additional first-contact message a sender makes within a 5-minute window. First message: $0.01. Second within 5 min: $0.02. Third: $0.04. Then $0.08, $0.16, $0.32, $0.64, $1.28 — and the price caps at $1.28 (128× the base) for every additional send while they keep going fast. Pause for 5 quiet minutes and the price resets to $0.01. The cap exists to protect legitimate large-volume traders (and to prevent a malicious user from triggering a multi-thousand-dollar charge against themselves to embarrass Morphit). Here's the cost-multiplication this produces. Spam-economics depend on volume being free; both the per-recipient fee AND the per-window doubling tax volume.. Pacing one message every 6 minutes: $0.01 per recipient, forever. The escalation never engages.. Sending 8 messages in a 5-minute burst: $0.01 + $0.02 + $0.04 + $0.08 + $0.16 + $0.32 + $0.64 + $1.28 = $2.55. ~255× the per-recipient base.. Sending 100 messages in a 5-minute burst: $2.55 for the first 8, then $1.28 each for messages 9-100 = $120.31.. Sending 1,000 messages in a fast continuous burst: ~$1,272.55. Paid in advance. Spammers also get an in-app warning the moment the multiplier exceeds 1×, telling them to slow down because recipients dislike unsolicited contact and may block them — and blocks are visible on-chain, so multiple blocks against an account hurt that account's reputation as a counterparty. Why $0.01 base specifically: it's small enough that legitimate first contact (a serious buyer reaching a seller they've found in the orderbook) shrugs it off, but large enough that broadcasting to a list isn't free. The base fee, the doubling rule, the 5-minute window, and the 128× cap are all hardcoded in the indexer — operators can't tune them to undercut the spam economics across the ecosystem. Layer 3 — Rate limits on never-replied conversations. Even if a sender pays the (escalating) stranger fee, they're capped at 20 unique never-replied recipients per rolling 24 hours and 50 messages per recipient pair before you reply. The moment you reply to them, both caps lift forever for that pair. So a serious counterparty stays unrestricted as soon as you engage; a flooder gets cut off after their first burst, and has to wait or pay again from a fresh account. The combined effect: legitimate trade chat is essentially free and unrestricted; broadcast spam is priced into oblivion; harassment is one click away from being shut down via Layer 1. See 'How does the chat inbox work? Can I mute or unmute someone?' below for what the Requests tab and block button actually look like.

Question 44

Why is chat on the Blurt chain instead of a regular server?

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Two reasons: no dependence on Morphit's infrastructure, and chain-level durability. If chat ran on a Morphit server:. Morphit could be coerced into handing over ciphertexts by any authority with jurisdiction. That's still end-to-end encrypted so the content is safe, but the metadata — who chatted with whom, when — is not.. Morphit going offline (DDoS, legal action, bankruptcy) means chat goes offline. For a two-day trade where buyer and seller need to communicate, that's a real risk.. Operators would have to rely on a centralized service to get chat functionality, undermining the whole point of Morphit being operator-pluggable. On-chain chat instead means:. Any indexer can serve the messages. If Morphit's default indexer is unreachable, a user can point their client at a different one.. Ciphertexts are immutable once confirmed. Nobody can edit or retroactively censor them.. There's exactly one source of truth. No sync headaches between Morphit's copy and yours. The tradeoff is block latency: messages confirm in ~3 seconds (Blurt's block time) rather than instantly. For trade coordination — the main use case — this is fine. For casual real-time chat, it's a semi-noticeable delay.

Question 45

What's public and what's private about my trades on Morphit?

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Morphit splits your trading footprint into two very different layers, on purpose. Private (encrypted, only you two can read):. Chat messages. The actual content of what you discuss — prices, payment details, negotiation, personal context — is end-to-end encrypted between your device and your counterparty's. Morphit operators, indexers, and chain observers see only opaque ciphertext. See 'Are my chats private?' for the crypto details.. Payment details you exchange. Bank account numbers, crypto addresses, meetup locations, phone numbers — anything you type into chat inherits chat's E2EE protection. Public (plaintext, anyone can read):. Your orders and their prices. Your live orderbook entries are posts on Blurt anyone can read without even running Morphit. That's how the worldwide-accessible orderbook works.. Feedback and reputation. Star ratings, review comments, and replies to reviews are plaintext on chain and visible to everyone. This is deliberate — reputation only works as a public signal. See 'Can feedback be edited or deleted?' and 'Who can see the reviews I've left for other traders?'.. Chat metadata. Who (@scooby) chatted with whom (@dingleberry), when, and roughly how big the messages were. The content of the messages though is totally encrypted; the fact of communication isn't. Everything above — private chat ciphertext, public feedback, public orders — lives on the Blurt blockchain and cannot be edited, deleted, or retroactively censored. The difference is who can read the plaintext, not whether it exists. Why the asymmetry makes sense. Chat needs privacy so that discussing a specific trade doesn't leak payment details to the world. Feedback needs publicity so that reputation is auditable — a review nobody could read would be worthless as a trust signal. Permanence serves both: permanent chat gives you dispute recourse (see 'If I disagree with my counterparty later, can I prove what we agreed to in chat?'); permanent feedback means bad actors can't quietly erase a history of complaints. If you want even the metadata of your communication hidden, use a dedicated secure messenger out-of-band for anything sensitive beyond the trade itself.

Question 46

If I disagree with my counterparty later, can I prove what we agreed to in chat?

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Yes — because Morphit chat lives on the Blurt blockchain, both of you hold a permanent cryptographic record of every message sent. The ciphertext is immutable once confirmed; nobody can edit or quietly delete what was said. What this gives you:. A verifiable trail. Every message has a block number, a timestamp, and a signature from the sender's posting key. There's no "he said / she said" about whether a specific message was sent at a specific time.. Decryption on demand. Both you and your counterparty can decrypt the full conversation at any time — the keys don't expire. If you later need to show a mediator, trusted friend, accountant, or even a small-claims court what was agreed, you can export plaintext from your side.. No operator gatekeeping. Because the chat is on-chain rather than on a Morphit server, no operator or admin can selectively reveal or hide parts of the record. What's there is there for everyone with a decryption key. What this does NOT give you:. No automatic arbitration. Morphit has no customer service, no dispute-resolution team, and no escrow. Having the evidence doesn't force the other side to honor it. See 'Why no Escrow or Arbitration service?' for why that's deliberate.. No forced disclosure. Your counterparty cannot be compelled to decrypt their side of the conversation. The record is symmetric — if they refuse to cooperate, you still have your copy, but you can't unlock theirs.. No binding precedent. A chat log is evidence, not a contract. Whether a court or mediator weighs it depends on their jurisdiction and the nature of the dispute. Practical advice. For any trade large enough that a dispute would matter, use chat for the whole negotiation: confirm the asset, amount, payment method, and any special terms in writing before anyone transfers anything. Short messages that pin down the exact terms are more useful later than long casual back-and-forth. If you want your record to be legible to people outside Morphit, you can paste decrypted message excerpts (with timestamps and block numbers) into an email or document — the block number is the anchor anyone else can independently verify against Blurt.

Question 47

Why no Escrow or Arbitration service?

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Escrow is a babysitter who holds your money until the trade finishes. If you and the other kid argue, the arbitrator is the referee who decides who gets the toys. The risk: You stopped trusting the other person… and now you have to trust the babysitter AND the referee instead. Both are centralizing — they become the new middleman with power over your money. If they're dishonest, slow, biased, or get hacked, your money can still disappear. Bottom line: Escrow + arbitration just moves the trust problem to a different person/group. Don't trust. Verify. #reputation

Question 48

What happens if I lose my chat key?

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You can't "lose" your chat key separately — it's derived from your posting key (see 'Do I need to set up a separate key to use chat?'). Losing your chat key happens only if you lose your seed phrase / posting key, which is the same scenario as losing access to your entire account. If you lose access to your posting key:. You can't sign any Morphit op (post orders, leave feedback, send chat).. You can't decrypt past chat messages sent to you.. Morphit cannot help recover — we don't custody keys. The only safety net is your 12-word seed phrase, written down at onboarding. If you have it, sign back in with it and everything (including past chat) is recoverable. If you don't, the account is inaccessible to you. See 'What if I lose my password or recovery seed?' and 'How do I back up my Morphit account?' for the canonical instructions.

Question 49

What does "We couldn't safely send" mean?

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When you message someone for the first time, Morphit fetches their chat key from your indexer and remembers it locally. On every later message to that person, Morphit checks the indexer's answer against what it remembered. If something looks off, the message is held back and you see "We couldn't safely send." This is a safeguard against a compromised indexer trying to feed you the wrong chat key — which would let an attacker read your outgoing messages. Four cases trigger the safeguard:. Tampered record. The indexer points at the same on-chain transaction it pointed at before, but the chat key inside is different. The indexer changed stored data behind the scenes — only an indexer with bad intent or a database problem produces this state. Try a different Morphit instance.. Older record than expected. The indexer is reporting a chat-key publication older than one you've already seen. The Blurt chain only moves forward, so this shouldn't happen on a healthy indexer. Refresh, or try a different Morphit instance.. Indexer claims a chat key, the chain doesn't. The indexer says your peer has published a chat identity, but Blurt itself reports nothing. The indexer is either out of sync or fabricating. Wait a moment and retry, or switch instance.. Chain reports something older than what you've seen. The Blurt RPC says the latest chat-identity for this person is older than what you previously saw. That's internally inconsistent. Try another Morphit instance, or another Blurt RPC endpoint. What to do: 1. Try retrying once. Transient indexer hiccups can produce a false alarm. 2. Switch Morphit instance. Just pick a different one from the instances link at the bottom of this page. Different instances run different indexers; if yours is misbehaving, another is fine. 3. Confirm with the recipient out-of-band. If they recently rotated their Blurt posting key (rare — that's an Owner-key operation), the legitimate new chat key will eventually settle. Asking them directly is the safest way to know. What this DOESN'T mean:. Your messages are not at risk in the past. Messages already sent stay encrypted with the keys that were in use at the time.. Your peer is not necessarily compromised. The most common cause is a misbehaving indexer, not your peer.. Your account is fine. None of these errors involve your own keys. The whole point of the check is to refuse to encrypt to the wrong key. Better a held-back message than a leaked one. See also 'How does Morphit chat work?' and 'Are my chats private?' for the encryption design this safeguard sits on top of.

Question 50

Do I need to set up a separate key to use chat?

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No. Your chat identity is derived automatically from your Blurt posting key the first time you open chat — no separate key to generate, back up, or lose. How it works: 1. When you open a conversation for the first time, your client derives a dedicated X25519 keypair from your posting private key. 2. The public half is published on-chain via a one-time morphit_chat_identity_v1 op. This takes ~3 seconds and happens in the background — you don't see it. 3. Anyone who wants to message you fetches your chat public key from the indexer and uses it to encrypt. 4. Your chat private key never leaves your browser. It's re-derived deterministically each time you open chat (so refreshing the page, or unlocking on a new device, gives you the same key back). The tradeoff: because your chat key is derived from your posting key, someone who gets your posting key (e.g. through seed phrase theft) can also decrypt your past chats. This is acceptable because posting-key compromise already means the attacker can impersonate you on Morphit anyway. Back up and secure your 12-word seed phrase, don't leak your password either, and you're fine.

Question 51

Does Morphit chat have forward secrecy?

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Short answer: partial — and we made that tradeoff deliberately, for reasons we think are good ones for this use case. Here's the honest version. What we have. Every outgoing message generates a fresh sender-side ephemeral keypair for the ECDH key agreement. The ephemeral private key is used once, then wiped from memory. So if your posting key is later compromised, the attacker still can't go back and read messages YOU SENT in the past — those ephemerals are gone. What we don't have. Per-message rotation of the receiver's long-term key. Your long-term chat identity key (deterministically derived from your Blurt posting key) is the same forever, until you change your posting key for some reason. So if your chat-priv ever leaks (ie: gets stolen), the attacker CAN decrypt every past message they have a ciphertext for. Protocols that rotate per message protect against this; we don't. Why we chose this design. Five reasons we're proud of: 1. Stateless decryption. A Morphit recipient can decrypt any individual message without prior state from earlier ones. This is essential for chain-anchored chat: messages may arrive out of order, after long gaps, on a brand-new device, or for a conversation you haven't touched in a year. A per-message-rotation protocol would need synchronized per-conversation state that Blurt simply doesn't provide. We took the property the use case actually needs. 2. No "first message" bootstrap. Sender can encrypt to anyone whose chat identity is on chain — instantly. No prekey-bundle dance, no out-of-band exchange, no "X is using Signal" detection step. You see a trader's account, you can DM them. 3. Multi-device by default. Your phone and your laptop, both unlocked from the same 12-word seed, are the same chat identity. There is no device-pairing UI to fail and no "this device is missing recent messages" trap to fall into. 4. Auditable simplicity. The entire crypto module is roughly 200 lines of libsodium calls. A more complex protocol would be closer to 1500 lines and notoriously easy to get wrong (the Matrix folks have written about how many subtle bugs they hit shipping forward-secrecy protocols). Less code, fewer places to hide a bug, easier for any third-party security researcher to read end-to-end. 5. The threat model where per-message rotation helps doesn't really apply here. Per-message rotation protects against "silent compromise" — an attacker who steals your key without you noticing and uses it to decrypt your archive while you keep using the app. On Morphit, your chat identity comes from your Blurt posting key. If someone has that key, they can already broadcast as you, edit your identity record on chain, leave fake feedback in your name, and impersonate you to your existing contacts going forward. Adding per-message rotation would protect a small slice of past messages while leaving the rest of your account fully exploitable. We'd rather you rotate keys promptly when something is wrong than build a fortress around one window of one room. The PFS we DO have is one-sided — sender's outbound messages stay safe even if their posting key leaks later (because the ephemerals are wiped). For two-sided PFS, both parties would need to rotate posting keys after each conversation. Blurt allows that, but we don't expect normal users to do it. When this tradeoff is wrong for you. If you're coordinating activism that may be investigated years from now, or corresponding with someone under active state-level surveillance, or exchanging information that stays sensitive long-term, please use a dedicated secure messenger. Some good options: Matrix/Element, Session, Signal. Morphit chat is usually just for coordinating a trade — conversations about payment details and getting to know your trading buddy a little bit.

Question 52

How can I be sure no one is reading my chats? (Verify peer fingerprint)

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Morphit chat is end-to-end encrypted by default — your messages are encrypted on your device with your counterparty's chat public key, and only their device can decrypt them. The default trust model is "trust on first use" (TOFU): the first time you chat with someone, your client takes whatever chat key the indexer says is theirs. After that the chain-anchored pin (see "What if my chat key changed?") detects any future swap. There's still one window where TOFU is theoretically vulnerable: the very first key exchange. A hostile indexer could, in principle, hand each side a different attacker-controlled key, so each side encrypts to the wrong person and the indexer reads everything in between. The fingerprint feature gives you a way to detect this if you want to. How to use it: 1. Open the conversation with your counterparty. 2. Tap the ⋮ menu next to the Block button → Verify peer. 3. You'll see 8 words. Your counterparty does the same on their device. 4. Compare the words out of band — voice call, in person, or another platform you both already trust. Do NOT compare them in this chat. 5. If both sides see the exact same 8 words, you've got your proof that no MITM occurred. You're good to go. 6. If even one word differs, treat the conversation as compromised. Don't continue. What the fingerprint protects against: A malicious indexer relaying fake keys to both sides simultaneously. The fingerprint is computed locally on your device from the keys actually being used to encrypt — if the indexer lied, your fingerprint and your counterparty's fingerprint won't match. What the fingerprint does NOT protect against:. Impersonation on the OOB channel. If you call "Bob" but the person who answers is actually Mallory, comparing fingerprints with Mallory will succeed because she controls the conversation. You have to recognize Bob's actual voice / face / handle.. Their device being compromised. If Bob's phone is owned by an attacker, the attacker reads everything no matter what. Fingerprint verification can't help with that.. Future key changes. Each conversation has its own fingerprint based on both sides' current keys. If your counterparty rotates their posting key (e.g. after a security incident), they get a new chat key, and the old fingerprint becomes invalid. You'd verify again with the new one. Privacy note: The fingerprint feature is opt-in. There's no badge, no banner, no nag — most users will never see this. We don't track who taps "Verify peer". The 8-word fingerprint reveals nothing about you that wasn't already public (it's derived from public keys both sides already share). About the OOB channel: Choose a channel you both already trust. Voice call works (you recognize their voice). In-person works (you can see them). Another encrypted messenger you've already verified works. SMS to a number you don't already know does NOT work — you'd be establishing trust on an unverified channel, which defeats the purpose. If your counterparty is a stranger you've never spoken to (a new orderbook contact), fingerprint verification gives you less than it gives a contact you already know — but it still protects against indexer-side MITM, which is its job.

Question 53

How does Morphit's reputation system work?

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Every completed trade lets both sides leave one feedback: a 1-5 star rating and an optional comment. The feedback is posted on-chain, so it's permanent and public — anyone can read it on a trader's profile page. The profile shows a weighted average rating, a count of reviews, and a breakdown by star rating so you can see at a glance whether a trader has a consistent track record or a few outliers. There's no central arbiter; the community's own reviews are the reputation signal. If people are going to trust you, your reputation is everything. Morphit doesn't have arbitrators, escrow agents, or chargebacks. The only thing that lets a stranger trust you with their money is the visible track record you've built. Treat every trade like it matters — because every trade is a public, permanent entry on the only reputation that counts: yours.

Question 54

How do I build a high reputation score on Morphit?

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Reputation on Morphit is built organically — by trading consistently, getting real feedback from real counterparties, and avoiding patterns that the code flags as suspicious. There is no shortcut. Here's exactly what factors into your score and what you should do. What counts toward your score (in order of impact): 1. Verified, completed trades. Every order you post that pays the listing fee (fee_status = 'verified') and gets a feedback row from a counterparty contributes to your weighted rating. Unverified-fee orders cannot be cited as feedback targets — so a counterparty can only leave you reputation-bearing feedback after you've put real economic skin in the game (the listing fee, ~$0.25 in Blurt/BTC/XMR equivalent). 2. Recent activity counts more than ancient activity. Morphit uses a 365-day half-life exponential decay: a review posted today carries full weight (1.0×), a review one year old counts half (0.5×), two years old counts a quarter (0.25×), and so on. A trader with 10 fresh 5-star reviews can rank higher than a trader with 100 ancient 5-star reviews. Trade regularly to keep your score current. 3. Both buy AND sell sides. Your profile shows separate weighted ratings for buyer-side trades and seller-side trades. A trader great as a buyer but careless as a seller (or vice versa) is visible to readers. Build reputation on both sides by being trustworthy whether you're the one sending crypto or the one receiving it. 4. Verified-chat badges on individual reviews. A review carries a verified-chat badge (a small ✓ icon next to the rating) when you and your counterparty exchanged at least 2 messages each direction over a span of at least 15 minutes before either party left feedback. Real trades involve real conversation; this badge is a quality signal that distinguishes a real-trade review from a drive-by one. Have real conversations with your counterparties. 5. Recency of last activity (dormancy signal). Your profile shows "Last traded: N ago." A trader with great old reviews who hasn't traded in 18 months is visibly dormant. Trade at least every few months to keep that timestamp fresh — both for the recency-decay benefit AND for the dormancy display. What does NOT inflate your score (the system actively filters these out):. Self-reviews. Trying to leave feedback for yourself (subject = reviewer) is rejected at the protocol level.. Sock-puppet accounts created by the same person you control. Signal A flags accounts created by the same creator with first-Morphit-activity within 5 minutes of each other. Their mutual feedback is excluded from both sides' aggregates.. Mutual high-star reciprocity rings. Signal B flags pairs exchanging ≥3 high-star reviews in 7 days with no third-party reviews. Their feedback to each other is excluded from both aggregates.. Concentration attacks. Signal D (added cp123) flags reviewers who concentrate ≥80% of their reviews on a single high-star target across a 30-day window. An attacker who reviews 2-3 throwaway third parties to evade Signal B still gets caught if the concentration ratio is high.. Untethered feedback. Feedback without an order_permlink (no cited trade) does NOT count toward the aggregate weighted rating. The feedback row still exists in your profile's per-row list, but it doesn't move the headline number.. Coordinated 1-star pile-ons. Signal C catches the deflation case: ≥3 reviewers leaving 1-star with clustered account creation and narrow review diversity → flagged. What you should DO (concrete checklist): 1. Complete real trades, all the way through. Post orders, pay the listing fee, settle off-platform with your counterparty, leave honest feedback. 2. Pay the listing fee (Blurt is cheapest at 50% discount; BTC or XMR work too). Without a verified fee, your counterparty can't cite your order in their feedback. 3. Reciprocate feedback. When your counterparty leaves you a review, leave them one back. Mutual feedback is the strongest reputation signal both ways. 4. Have real chat conversations with your counterparties before settlement. Aim for 2+ messages each direction, over at least 15 minutes. That earns the verified-chat badge on the resulting feedback. 5. Write detailed comments in your feedback. "Smooth trade, fast settlement, would trade again" is more credible to readers than empty 5-star reviews. 6. Trade on both sides. Don't only buy or only sell — alternate to build a balanced reputation. 7. Trade with diverse counterparties. Reviewers who concentrate on one subject get filtered (Signal D). The same applies in reverse: build relationships with many traders. 8. Stay active. A trader who posts orders monthly preserves their decay-weighted score and dormancy signal far better than one who disappears for 2 years. What you should AVOID: 1. Don't create alt accounts to review yourself. Signal A + Signal B + Signal D will catch this. Your fake reviews will be filtered out of your aggregate and your real reputation will look worse for the attempt. 2. Don't pile-on a counterparty you had a bad trade with. One honest 1-star is fine. Three sock-puppet 1-stars triggers Signal C and gets all of them filtered. 3. Don't pay for fake reviews. Reviewers who concentrate ≥80% of their activity on one subject get flagged by Signal D regardless of how the relationship started. 4. Don't leave drive-by feedback. A review without an order_permlink won't move your aggregate, and even if you cite an order, a review with no chat history won't earn the verified-chat badge. Verification — anyone can audit your score. Morphit ships a public reputation receipt endpoint: GET /v1/accounts/<your-account>/reputation-receipt. Any reader can fetch the full set of feedback rows about you (included AND excluded, with the reason for each exclusion), the decay-weight at the moment of computation, and the formula used. They can independently re-derive your weighted rating from chain data. Your reputation is not "trust the indexer" — it's "verify against the chain." Honest caveats:. First few trades are the hardest. A brand-new account is shown with a is_new_trader badge in the orderbook until they have 4+ verified-fee trades. This is intentional cold-start protection for everyone trading with newcomers; it's not a permanent penalty.. Bad reviews recover over time but are not erased. A 1-star from 2 years ago counts roughly 1/4 of a fresh 5-star, so honest mistakes from your past don't anchor your score forever — but they don't disappear either.. The system does NOT detect "trade actually happened." Settlement is off-chain, so neither Morphit nor anyone else can verify that you and your counterparty actually exchanged value. Reputation is built on the pattern of consistent verified-fee orders + mutual feedback over time, not on any individual claim. This is documented honestly and is fundamental to all peer-to-peer reputation systems. The shortest path to a high reputation: trade consistently, settle reliably, chat with your counterparties, leave honest feedback both ways, and let time + signal-table filtering do the rest.

Question 55

What's on a user's profile page?

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A Morphit profile lives at /@username. At the top you'll see an avatar (a deterministic identicon derived from the account name — no photo upload), their display name, and shortcut links to any Nostr or Blurt.media presence they've declared. Below that: a reputation summary with weighted rating and a 1-5 star histogram so you can see how reviews are distributed. Then a list of their live orders, sorted with the ones closest to expiring first. Then the reviews they've received (with any replies the subject has posted), followed by the reviews they've left for other traders. Everything is public — anyone can read any profile without signing in.

Question 56

What changes when I'm viewing my own profile vs someone else's?

Accepted Answer

When you're viewing your own profile, you'll see a 'Reply' button under each review you've received that doesn't have a response yet — that's how you post your one public reply per review. When you're viewing someone else's profile, the reply button doesn't appear. Similarly, on an individual order detail page (/@username/order-permlink), if it's your own order you'll see Edit and Cancel buttons; if it's someone else's order, you see a 'Chat with the poster' hint instead. The logic is consistent: actions are only surfaced where they make sense for the viewer.

Question 57

How do I leave feedback after a trade?

Accepted Answer

Go to 'My Orders' (/my/orders) and find the live order you just completed off-platform. Click 'Leave feedback' on it — there's no separate 'mark completed' step. Submitting the feedback is what closes out the trade: rate 1-5 stars, optionally add a short comment (up to 256 characters), and hit submit. Your feedback is broadcast on-chain using your posting key — no fee, no password prompt — and shows up on your counterparty's profile within a few seconds.

Question 58

Can feedback be edited or deleted?

Accepted Answer

No, once posted it is permanent. This is what makes reputation meaningful — nobody can quietly erase a bad review. If someone leaves feedback you disagree with, you can post a public response; the original stays. If people are going to trust you, your reputation is everything.

Question 59

Can I respond to a review someone left about me?

Accepted Answer

Yes. If you're the subject of a review, you can post one public reply to it from your own profile page. The reply shows beneath the original review so anyone reading your profile sees both sides. Replies are also on-chain and permanent, so use them to add context — not to escalate. You cannot edit or delete the original review; nobody can.

Question 60

Why are some reviews greyed out as 'not counted toward rating'?

Accepted Answer

Morphit runs two pattern detectors on the public feedback table to spot reviews that look like sock-puppet manipulation rather than genuine trading. When a (reviewer, subject) pair triggers either detector, those reviews are flagged and excluded from the headline rating + review count. They still appear in the reviews list (transparency matters) but with a chip explaining "Not counted toward rating — reviewers flagged as related" and reduced opacity. Two patterns we flag: 1. Same-creator close-timing. Two accounts created by the same Blurt creator (other than @morphit-relay, which onboards most legitimate users) whose first Morphit activities are within 5 minutes of each other. This pattern matches the typical sock-puppet farm setup where one operator creates multiple accounts via blurt-cli and immediately starts using them. Real users who happen to share a creator (a friend who helped onboard them via blurt-cli) and start using Morphit minutes apart can occasionally trip this. 2. Mutual high-star with no third party. Two accounts that exchange 3+ five-star reviews of each other in 7 days AND have not reviewed any third party in that window. This pattern matches a sock-puppet farm doing wash trades to inflate ratings. Real heavy-traders almost always have third-party reviews mixed in, so this rarely false-positives on legitimate users. If you have been flagged and you are a real user, complete a few trades with different counterparties — the rolling 7-day window will let the flag fall off naturally next time the detector runs. Why we flag rather than hide: the reviews stay visible because the chain itself is public — anyone running their own indexer can see them. Hiding them in this UI would be cosmetic only, and it would be dishonest about what the reputation system is actually doing. The chip + reduced opacity convey "this exists but does not count" clearly while preserving transparency. Why headline excludes them: the rating + count at the top of the profile is the at-a-glance trust signal traders use to decide whether to engage. Including suppressed reviews in that number would defeat the purpose of detecting them. The list view is for due-diligence reading; the headline is for snap judgments. False positives: the detectors are not perfect. If you believe you have been wrongly flagged, the operator running the indexer instance you are looking at can manually unflag a pair — open a thread on the project discussion forum or contact the instance operator. See also "How does Morphit reputation system work?" for the bigger picture.

Question 61

Who can see the reviews I've left for other traders?

Accepted Answer

Everyone. Your profile page has a 'Reviews given' section that lists every rating you've posted about other people, linking to each one. This is deliberate: if you give wildly different ratings to different counterparties, or leave a 1-star review that no one else agrees with, readers should be able to see that context. Think of it the same way as the reviews you receive — they're public reputation signals, and your review history is part of your reputation too.

Question 62

How much activity is there on Morphit right now?

Accepted Answer

Live site-wide activity statistics aren't wired up yet. When they ship, this entry will show total successful trades, current active users, and rolled-up activity across every Morphit frontend (morphit.io plus community mirrors). Because the orderbook lives on the underlying blockchain, those numbers will be verifiable by anyone running their own indexer against the same data. If you're curious about raw activity right now, you can search the Blurt chain directly for custom_json operations with id morphit_order_v1 — every Morphit order is a signed on-chain op, so anyone can count them without needing our permission or our servers.

Question 63

What does the 'New trader' label mean?

Accepted Answer

It means this account hasn't received any feedback yet. They might be a brand-new user, or someone who's been around but hasn't completed a trade on Morphit. It's not a red flag by itself — everyone starts here. If you want to trade with a new trader, a reasonable first step is a small trade to test the waters. After you complete it, leaving honest feedback helps the next person decide.

Question 64

What is the "Verified chat" badge on a review?

Accepted Answer

A small green checkmark badge that appears on a feedback row when the reviewer and the trader had a real-looking on-chain conversation BEFORE the review was signed. What "real-looking" means:. At least 2 chat messages from each side (so the conversation was bidirectional, not one-sided flooding).. At least 15 minutes elapsed between the first and last message (so it wasn't a 30-second sock-puppet exchange).. The (reviewer, trader) pair isn't flagged in our suspicious-reciprocity detector. What the badge claims: these accounts had a conversation that looks like real trade coordination. What the badge does NOT claim: that these are two distinct people. A patient attacker with two coordinated accounts can satisfy the criteria by scheduling messages over time. The badge is a correlation signal — it's strictly more useful than nothing, but it doesn't prove distinct identity. Why we don't IP-check the conversation: Morphit's privacy commitment forbids IP collection. Even if we did collect IPs, sophisticated attackers route through Tor/VPN and would defeat it; honest users on shared wifi or VPN would trip false positives. We pay the privacy cost without catching real adversaries — not a good trade. How to use the signal: treat verified-chat as one input among several. A reviewer with verified-chat + an account 6+ months old + a history of feedback to many distinct counterparties is a much stronger signal than verified-chat alone.