Barter upends the concepts of 'buyer' and 'seller' for a more equitable method of exchange, allowing economic activity to be directly carried out without financialized vehicles or markets.
However, the computational power and availability of information needed to construct socially useful barter chains were not universally available until recently.
We propose a distributed infrastructure of algorithmically-generated bartering chains using a novel blockchain mechanism we call "treasure hunt" hashing.
Distributing the NP-hard work of optimizing barter chain negotiations over the IPFS peer-to-peer protocol, this system enables ongoing trading of goods and services between parties previously unknown to each other.