Remember when you were little and you thought for sure you could simply draw things that you like and exchange them for other things? It certainly was what I thought. That ancient economic system is called bartering. Despite the human intuitiveness of bartering, sadly, the current art world has few well-run ecosystems in which to do that. Yet today, believe it or not, a new form of art bartering can be done quite easily with rare digital art through the zeroone platform and marketplace.
How revolutionary is this? Well, on one hand--as mentioned earlier--bartering (exchanging one item or service for another without the use of money) is the most ancient of practices. Yet in a modern society, and especially in the rare digital art space, the practice of providing an art-provenance blockchain-powered network that offers bartering and commerce all in the same place for NFT ownership is hugely refreshing.
How bartering works on zeroone has a generosity-inspiring twist to it. For every unique artwork an artist releases for the community to collect, that artist earns the right to collect 10 unique pieces from other artists. "Collect passes" are what zeroone calls them. So those offering their artwork are richly rewarded with 10 times more art than they offered. As an artist who is also a lifetime collector, this is a dream come true!
These groundbreaking features are just some of the many reasons why, in the past 2+ years, I have released over 150 different pieces of digital art on zeroone, which, in turn, has earned me the bartering access to collect over 1,300 remarkable pieces of art from different artists around the world! I have also bought and sold artworks there too. Essentially, zeroone's hybrid marketplace model allows artist to give away some art for bartering purposes and some art for direct cryptocurrency sale purposes. It is the perfect blend of commerce married to a highly prolific contributor economy, fostering collecting and creating in a friendly online environment.
Animated comic by Joe Chiappetta, 2025 was handmade on a Pocket PC and edited on a laptop computer in Paint dot Net
This NFT is available on zeroone marketplace https://zeroone.art/profile/joechiappetta