# Community Currencies In more and more communities there is a growing awareness that we can only increase our standard of living if essential things in life - such as energy and food - are also produced and consumed locally. While local markets for food have been on the rise for decades, independent energy production is still in its infancy. However, this is changing very quickly, especially because of solar and wind energy, and is opening up the market for regional currencies based on energy. The ARTIS Ecosystem provides everything needed for community currencies - identity and token management. Furthermore, with bridges to [xDai Chain](https://www.xdaichain.com/) and [Ethereum](https://ethereum.org/en/) it can tap into all the available decentralized financial markets (e.g. [Honeyswap](https://honeyswap.org/#/swap)). ![](/files/-MKYn2Ezr4f-1_wlUQnA) The simplest analogy to these new types of community currencies is the well known [Miles-and-More](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_%26_More) system, which let's you not just buy flights but also pay for many goods and services within that system. Community currencies are acting in a similar way. They keep purchasing power in the region and help to build and rebuild local economies. In times of COVID-19 this will be more urgently needed than ever. A typical application is, for example, payment for charging an electric car, as demonstrated at [Mission Innovation Austria Week](https://missioninnovationaustriaweek.at/recap/en/): {% embed url="" %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.artis.eco/about/use-cases/community-currencies.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.