– Kyle McDonald, on the joys of trading digital art before the NFT boom. In 2019, McDonald and a few dozen peers joined a2p, a speculative blockchain-based exchange run by artists Casey Reas, Addie Wagenknecht, Rick Silva, and exonemo. “It’s an artist-to-artist system to build and curate a collection,” Reas wrote in the platform’s brief. “It’s a performance, but also a way to think about what happens to the work after it’s made.”