# Best of jpg100.substack.com on Kiwi News Page: https://news.kiwistand.com/source/jpg100.substack.com 12 stories from jpg100.substack.com have been shared on Kiwi News since 5 July 2023, with 22 upvotes and 0 comments in total. The latest was shared on 5 May 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first. Summaries are AI summaries of the linked article. ## 1. Find a husband using this very simple DeFi strategy (it worked for me!) - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Find-a-husband-using-this-very-simple-DeFi-strategy-it-worked-for-me?index=0x65e713a60221ad1276542868cf21ec5eb1892b3525828e0748c0bf2b1904f35ba61fcc36 - Source: https://jpg100.substack.com/p/find-a-husband-using-this-very-simple - Shared 5 March 2024, 4 upvotes, 0 comments The author describes buying a Simon Denny artwork, a Patagonia vest made from Margaret Thatcher's scarves, using crypto earned through DeFi yield instead of going through a gallery. After a pandemic spent mostly online, the author wanted to collect art without the gallery process of "KYC"-style vetting, and locked ETH in DeFi Saver to earn USDC in March 2021. Within about a month the yield covered the artwork's price, and the position was closed. The author says the episode also led to meeting the husband, who noticed the author after the author shared the story with Simon Denny. ## 2. On Building - our essay from the NFT Taschen Book - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/On-Building-our-essay-from-the-NFT-Taschen-Book?index=0x65dcce2fa597441cb06042a3a8e1266643feafd9ecca0d7f01a9ba9cf65b132daa3e99ad - Source: https://jpg100.substack.com/p/on-building-our-essay-from-the-nft?open=false&r=n65td - Shared 26 February 2024, 3 upvotes, 0 comments Maria Paula Fernandez, Simon Denny and Adina Glickstein argue that NFT infrastructure was built through an iterative, critical process by artists and technologists rather than by a single inventor. They trace its lineage from Mosaic and Hal Finney's 1993 "cryptographic trading cards" idea to Counterparty's 2014 token issuing and Anil Dash and Kevin McCoy's Monegraph, presented at Rhizome's Seven on Seven that May. The authors say they do not aim to identify the first true NFT project, focusing instead on the community work that expanded what NFTs could become. The essay was written in early 2022 and is being republished in a newsletter because the book's high cost may limit its readership. ## 3. Nothing is a line. Everything, everywhere is always moving. Get used to it. - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Nothing-is-a-line-Everything-everywhere-is-always-moving-Get-used-to-it?index=0x64d7569e9844e297ce3ab38a19a28e092bc7ea0597d32c256d1869a90cd183d2a5a3697f - Source: https://jpg100.substack.com/p/nothing-is-a-line-everything-everywhere - Shared 12 August 2023, 3 upvotes, 0 comments This personal newsletter from JPG's Vasilis-style writer reflects on FWBfest, a crypto and internet-culture gathering in the California mountains, and on the value of staying adaptable to changing beliefs. The author praises the people met in person and the talks by Shumon Basar, Josh Citarella, Eileen and Ruby Thelot, and says the livestream gave real-time feedback on their own talk. The post also criticizes the event's accessibility, noting that a gathering in California was hard to reach during a bear market. It announces upcoming projects, including Boys of Summer by Mitchell F. Chan on Wild.xyz with a presale starting August 14 and an October Berlin exhibition called Market Makers. ## 4. NEXT WEEK: JPG x Botto Access Pass and Market Makers Exhibition in Berlin - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NEXT-WEEK-JPG-x-Botto-Access-Pass-and-Market-Makers-Exhibition-in-Berlin?index=0x6516eac6de88468bd8e6682e9231f133466ba4de2f09294ddf942346427ca79ba1f49f54 - Source: https://jpg100.substack.com/p/next-week-jpg-x-botto-access-pass?r=16nwyb - Shared 29 September 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments JPG is announcing an NFT exhibition in Berlin, organized after Berliner Volksbank asked it to curate a show in March, and a JPG x Botto Access Pass mint on Monday, October 2, 2023 at 12pm EST. The show combines artworks from the bank's foundation, which collects works from former Eastern Germany, with NFTs, and is being produced with Stina Gustafsson, Chris Dake-Outhet and Simon Denny. The opening is next Wednesday, and the three-day event includes talks on Saturday by Harm van den Dorpel, Sarah Friend, Malte Rausch, Anne Schwanz and Paul Seidler. ## 5. NFT: Natural Static by Jonathan Chomko: minting next week, IRL show now in NYC - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NFT-Natural-Static-by-Jonathan-Chomko-minting-next-week-IRL-show-now-in-NYC?index=0x650df28694a0a381e2fea0619d69168938df2db78a03ed35eab81d2172639a0e8082094b - Source: https://jpg100.substack.com/p/natural-static-by-jonathan-chomko - Shared 22 September 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Jonathan Chomko's Natural Static, a generative NFT series launched by JPG, is set to mint on Wednesday, September 27 at 1pm ET, and an audiovisual installation of the work is on display at Public Works Administration in Times Square, New York City, until Sunday. The series feeds video of natural motion into a pixel-based water simulation, with parameters such as colour, mode and cycle speed derived from a hash created on mint. The collection is around 440 pieces (to be confirmed) at 0.1 ETH each, with an allowlist for previous Chomko collectors and JPG drops collectors. ## 6. Sandbox Mode is THE fun mode - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Sandbox-Mode-is-THE-fun-mode?index=0x64f23aa632857fe129b3c281b445ae1dec71bd94940b4414d34502e201151638d2391afd - Source: https://jpg100.substack.com/p/sandbox-mode-is-the-fun-mode - Shared 1 September 2023, 2 upvotes, 0 comments Maria Paula, writing as the founder of JPG, describes a newsletter in which the team, paused on its product, has shifted to "Sandbox mode" of experimentation, while still feeling the itch to ship. Upcoming items include a JPG drop with an artist close to the team, an online exhibition with a gift shop, and a gallery show at the Office Impart space in Berlin with an opening on the 8th at 18 hs. Other events include a talk at Funding the Commons in Berlin on October 9th, a Permissionless Austin panel on September 13th, and a September 16th opening and talk with Simon at Gallery Altman Siegel in San Francisco. ## 7. Come one, come all, anons - this is the LARP edition of the JPG newsletter - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Come-one-come-all-anons-this-is-the-LARP-edition-of-the-JPG-newsletter?index=0x68187c8ad45a1eefe6dc4377f735a66461f47f9fb135c88386e6d3922f916ee16fb5abbd - Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/jpg100/p/come-one-come-all-anons-this-is-the?r=3ptcv - Shared 5 May 2025, 1 upvote, 0 comments MP and Gabagool, in a dialogue newsletter, argue that LARPing and anonymity in crypto and the metaverse are a form of performance art, and that everyone performs to some degree, so purity is not a realistic goal. Gabagool says going anon was liberating because it separated a fragile physical self from an identity judged only on its work and on-chain holdings, and says the wallet has become a kind of resume. MP says the strongest examples of identity LARPing happen offline, citing the forged provenance of fake paintings in the Knoedler case, and argues that some opacity is a good trait in measured amounts. ## 8. NFT: We do a Jan-Robert Leegte special, as a treat - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/NFT-We-do-a-Jan-Robert-Leegte-special-as-a-treat?index=0x65037abc805cf4d6428242cef8f695ce82c155db6e6372c834417492f55851a4d873b8d8 - Source: https://jpg100.substack.com/p/we-do-a-jan-robert-leegte-special?r=n65td - Shared 14 September 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments Jan-Robert Leegte is releasing Web, a networked generative NFT collection on Fingerprints, and the JPG newsletter is promoting it with a Spaces event and a related gallery installation. Leegte describes Web as "a network spawned in the dark" and "a performance of the Internet itself," built from a thousand webpages expressed as raw HTML structures. Web is both a 1:1 online engine piece and a cloud of connected instances, according to Leegte's answers in the interview. The Web drop is on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 9am PST, and a Spaces event with Leegte is set for the same day at 7pm CEST. ## 9. BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/BUSY-BUSY-BUSY-BUSY?index=0x64fceec5bc84fbc335b75103e38b9bf8fbcee846fe89363ab4c14144aff7a3847822a807 - Source: https://jpg100.substack.com/p/busy-busy-busy-busy - Shared 9 September 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments JPG has launched Jonathan C's drop Natural Static alongside the exhibition Generative Art Beyond the Algorithm, curated by Brian D. The pairing revives the format of the July 2021 Deep Time exhibition and Salt by Figure and 0xmons, which launched together to help people situate the artists' work. An IRL installation for the exhibition is coming soon in NYC. Sten's generative project Unicurse is also minting, and Marty Grasser and Simon Denny will discuss Denny's show Read, Write, Own in San Francisco on September 16. ## 10. Virtual grass to prevent you from touching grass this weekend - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/Virtual-grass-to-prevent-you-from-touching-grass-this-weekend?index=0x64e91498f2662733f2416f061edb635b7adaac5c2783dfc3a85aa0192c2cd99807cc295b - Source: https://jpg100.substack.com/p/virtual-grass-to-prevent-you-from - Shared 25 August 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments This is a personal weekly newsletter listing crypto and NFT art releases the author liked, including Sarah Zucker's edition, Keiken's Wisdoms for Neknel, which can be bought by harvesting $WISDOM ERC-20 through a Wisdom Vessels NFT, and Feral File's show curated by Femmebit. It also highlights Mindy Seu's anti-canon interview for Zora Zine and an onchain Citibike-themed NYC project that the author says they were excited to join. The author notes that Feral File's show can currently only be collected as a whole set, which they consider inaccessible for most buyers. ## 11. What we’ve been minting at JPG - by JPG (pronounced jpeg) - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/What-weve-been-minting-at-JPG-by-JPG-pronounced-jpeg?index=0x64df9503c05295ad8bf58a473a0382f5c96ce439ec955bd3921e192730d323cd45e0a4b8 - Source: https://jpg100.substack.com/p/what-weve-been-minting-at-jpg - Shared 18 August 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments JPG, a collective of Trent, MP and Nic, publishes a roundup of NFTs its members have minted or been gifted, framed as cultural rather than investment advice. The post highlights Gemma drops by Petra Cortright, Addie Wagenknecht and Serwah Attafuah, a generative work by Amber Vittoria from the media platform Dirt, and Sten's Tarot Code Reader, an Open Edition. It also lists three upcoming exhibitions, including Notes from the Ether at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore from August 19 to September 24, and Market Makers in Berlin from October 5 to 7. ## 12. In retrospect, it was inevitable - Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/In-retrospect-it-was-inevitable?index=0x64a590820d5479c0012be057e672740cf1ee2aedf8d9d39e993b6cb20b10c16aca7f72b1 - Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/jpg100/p/in-retrospect-it-was-inevitable?r=3ptcv - Shared 5 July 2023, 1 upvote, 0 comments The author, writing as a founder of the NFT curation project JPG, argues that "NFTs need curation" is a meaningless phrase because many curation attempts, including JPG, failed to gain traction, partly due to lack of "big collector" support. The piece says NFT collectors have turned to traditional art institutions, and that auction houses founded in 1766 and 1744 currently produce the industry's best products. It also contends that curation tools were launched in large numbers but few people used them, and it praises early critique magazines and community contributors as the true pioneers of NFT culture.