Trust in online platforms dealing with virtual goods I am implementing an online platform, where third-parties sell virtual goods to clients on a subscription basis. Let's take for example ebooks as a virtual good in this case.
How can the third-parties trust my platform? How can they know that I don't cheat with the number of subscriptions I report back to them? Do any solutions exist for this or some papers? I can't possibly be the first with this kind of problem. The problem is I even don't know what to search for.
As far as I know, sellers can't fully verify that the platform is behaving honestly, so you'll need to trust the platform.  A malicious platform could always sell a copy to someone without giving the seller their cut.