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For Event Managers

Turn your event into a marketplace of promises

The best networking happens when people trade real value, not just business cards. barter.game lets your attendees mint personal currencies — “1 intro to my investor”, “1 portfolio review”, “1 lunch conversation” — and trade them on the spot.

Why add a promise marketplace?

  • Attendees leave with concrete value, not just LinkedIn connections.
  • Icebreaker built in. “What can you offer? What do you need?” becomes the opening line.
  • No cash required. Mutual credit means nobody needs to pre-fund anything. Issuers go negative; holders go positive. The math balances.
  • Federation means no vendor lock-in. You run a bank for the event; attendees can keep using it afterward, or move to their own.

How it works at an event

  1. You deploy a bank (or we do it for you). It takes 10 minutes. See the self-hoster guide.
  2. Attendees barter init against your bank URL. They now have a wallet.
  3. They mint promises — whatever they can deliver. “1 design review.” “1 investor intro.” “1 yoga class.”
  4. They trade. The protocol handles the cryptography. Attendees just scan a QR code or paste an invite string.
  5. They settle. Balances update. The issuer now owes the holder a deliverable.

What your attendees see 

# At the event
barter init --bank https://your-event.barter.game/functions/v1/event-bank
barter mint "1 portfolio review"
barter trade --give ... --get ...
barter confirm <tx-hash>
barter settle <tx-hash>

Or, wrap this in a simple web UI (v1.5) and attendees never touch the terminal.

The day after

Attendees leave holding signed promises. They can redeem them later — a coffee meetup next week, a design review over Zoom. The promise outlives the event. Your event becomes the origin of ongoing professional relationships, not just a one-day blur.

Get started

Want help running this at your event? Open an issue on GitHub and we’ll figure it out together.