Hey thanks! I appreciate that. Nothing in particular; I overhauled the design pretty recently and wrote about it on my blog if you're interested (in my HN bio)
Definitely other options out there. The main difference is Zoneless is open-source and self-hostable, so there's no transaction fees charged on top. Zoneless has KYC built in via Didit along with additional risk / compliance tools also.
Appreciate you raising this, especially given your Connect experience.
This is a fair concern. Zoneless does verify the identity of payout recipients through Didit, and marketplaces can require KYC before the first payout. We also have support for blocking OFAC-listed wallet addresses, and also have additional checks to flag suspicious behaviour.
I agree that KYC doesn't eliminate marketplace fraud, though. That's true with Stripe Connect too; Stripe explicitly leaves platforms responsible for monitoring and preventing fraudulent activity even though it handles KYC and provides risk tooling.
I think the area I could make much clearer in the docs is the distinction between identity verification, sanctions screening, and marketplace fraud prevention.
Totally get this - one reason I built this was due to the risk of being shut down or rejected from a traditional payment platform. With this there's no risk of being rejected as 1) you can self-host it yourself, and 2) everything is self-custodial on the managed hosting version.
This is mainly for the payout side, but there is a working stablecoin checkout / payments /subscription system in the project - there's no limit on charges, and there are no chargebacks possible because it uses stablecoins.
The marketplace is called PromptBase, which I've been bootstrapping for the past few years (now around ~500k users).
Thanks for this feedback, that could be clearer - the $6 is the total network fees for the underlying rails if you were self-hosting (about $0.002/transaction). The managed hosting option is just if you don't want to host it and run it yourself.
