Spreading control across many participants instead of one central authority, a core idea of blockchains and the early internet.
Net.art was just an element in a broader form of digital experimentation and digital creativity that was happening and that broader ethos was very much about decentralization, anti-authoritarianism, bottom-up approaches and anti-surveillance.
Kevin McCoy, Kevin McCoy on Bridging net.art and Blockchain
If you actually want to participate in the concept of decentralization with blockchains, you're going to want to become a node operator.
Regina Harsanyi, Preserving Digital Art: Regina Harsanyi, Jon Ippolito