The current problem plaguing participants in the freelance economy is an inherent lack of trust. Employers lack a single source of reliable and consistent history for potential hires. Freelancers are at the mercy of individually centralized job marketplaces and are powerless to control their personal data and retain their full earnings. Moonlighting is focused on eliminating the risks associated with online hiring, empowering the democratization and portability of worker data, and reducing the cost of doing business in the gig economy.