Patent ID: 7765150

Claim:
A method for incentivizing a plurality of participants to trade goods and services of a vertical market on a marketplace, the method comprising: receiving from an ownership processor at least one warrant in exchange for agreeing to trade goods and services of the vertical market on the marketplace, in which the warrant is convertible into at least one ownership share of the marketplace based on the participant's performance on the marketplace; transmitting from a trading processor information about the participant's performance on the marketplace, in which the trading processor and the ownership processor are in communication over a network, and in which the participant's performance is used to determine a quantity of warrants that is convertible by the participant into the at least one ownership share of the marketplace; transmitting information about a type of transaction that is provided by the participant, in which the type of transaction is used to determine an amount of a fee that is paid to the participant; and receiving from the ownership processor a notification of the quantity of warrants that is convertible into the at least one ownership share, of the marketplace and the amount of the fee.