We're excited to announce the JPG Canons! The Canons are crowdsourced lists of NFTs governed and created by the community, whose actors are bound to a reputation system designed to create a positive sum atmosphere.
The Canons are stored on-chain via Arweave, allowing them to become indexed “culture legos” for use as public goods.
If you have ever tried searching for a comprehensive list of NFTs under CC0 license, tried to map out all Nouns derivatives or find an unbiased compendium of Dynamic NFTs, you know that marketplaces search functions, blogposts or influencooooors twitter threads are not enough, complete and can be biased. Between the individual collections one encounters on social platforms and broad categories on marketplaces exists the real substance and networks within this space, but it currently lacks cohesion and visibility.JPG Canons are governed by a wallet-signature based voting system tied to the Canonicon NFT in your account, which tracks and displays your participation in the JPG network.
JPG will be rolling out access to the free mint allowlist in a gradual manner in order to limit sybil dynamics, prioritize high value contributors, and allow our dev team to continue improving the experience. For the initial alpha, the allowlist will consist of existing JPG exhibition curators, SALTV4 holders, and various curators in the community who have expressed interest in participating in this type of infrastructure.
Read the full blogpost announcement for technicals and more on the Canons.
If you have been contacted by our team, are a JPG curator already, or a SALTV4 holder, click here to create and mint the Canonicon for free (bear in mind you still need some ETH for gas, but if you try to mint at a time with low gas price, it should be relatively affordable!)
If you are not within these groups, don't worry, head over to our Discord and wait for instructions, we'll be enabling very soon a friendly option accessible to all!
We'd really appreciate your feedback - and looking forward to seeing your newly created and minted Canonicon NFT, tag us on Twitterr once you mint it!
See you in the soup :)
The JPG Team