Artrade is not directly purchasing the items. The items are purchased with the DAO wallet, which is an inital $ATR supply attributed to this purpose.

Artrade team earns revenue through fees on $ATR trading volume on decentralized exchanges.

The items are purchased by the $ATR community, which is why the $ATR spent is redistributed to the community as well. While fees payed by traders on decentralized exchanges are used to develop the marketplace.

The drops currently create an average selling pressure of around $500 per day.

Given our volume and market cap, this is relatively unnoticeable.

The DAO itself is profitable as long as the number of participants buying $ATR exceed the items prices.

The DAO walletis not replenishing itself at the moment, but at our current pace, it would take 10 to 30 years to empty the reserve. 100 years if we return to ATH.

A large, powerful, and wealthy community is valuable. At some point, some ads on Artrade could help fund the DAO wallet. Also, we’re working to get products for free on the marketplace, valuing our community.

Like gold dealers, we can't create gold ($ATR). But we can trade it. We would eventually trade part of the community reserve, converting some into USD and / or other currencies. Following a favorable vote from holders.