Launch your local currency in a minute.
Neighborhoods, transition towns, festivals, housing co-ops — communities of every kind run richer when value circulates locally. barter.game gives your community its own currency: issued by you, held by your members, tracked on a signed ledger. Free and hosted, no printing presses required.
Your currency, your rules, our infrastructure.
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Create your community
Register with an email and name your community. Behind the scenes it gets its own bank with its own cryptographic keys.
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Issue your currency
Vouchers are your currency: name them what you like — hours, shells, berries, bricks — and decide what each one promises.
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Members join from a link
Share your community page and members create their own accounts on their phones. It works in the browser; nothing to install.
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Value circulates
Members pay each other, post offers, and watch balances move. Every transfer is signed and visible on the ledger.
For communities that keep value local.
Neighborhoods and towns
A local currency keeps skills and goods circulating nearby — the babysitting, the ladder lending, the sourdough — instead of leaking out to platforms.
Intentional communities
Ecovillages, cohousing, and communes tracking contribution without turning everything into cash accounting.
Events and festivals
A temporary currency for a temporary community: volunteers earn it, vendors accept it, and the ledger closes when the tents come down.
What people ask before launching.
Is a community currency legal?
Complementary currencies have a long, legal history — from LETS schemes to town currencies like Bristol's or Brixton's. Yours is a ledger of promises between members, not legal tender and not a security. For anything beyond a small community, check your local regulations.
Is this a cryptocurrency?
No token, no chain, no speculation. Your currency only exists inside your community and only means what your members agree it means.
What does it cost?
Free. The bank, the public community page, and hosting are included.
Can our currency trade with other communities?
Yes — banks on barter.game are federated. Each community keeps its own currency and rules, but members can trade across the network when they choose to.
Your community, your currency.
Registration is free — launch it today.
Create your currency