Co-Curating the Art NFTs Ecosystem with JPG — María Paula, Trent Elmore

María Paula is the retired founder of the Department of Decentralization which organised the ETH Berlin hackathon events.

Trent Elmore was working in DeFi before teaming up with María and Sam Spike as co-founders of JPG. A platform and infrastructure to promote and preserve the NFT ecosystem's cultural objects via exhibitions and canons.

JPG's Exhibitions allow users to curate online NFT exhibitions, which are stored on Arweave in perpetuity. JPG Canons are community created and governed lists of NFTs, designed to index a new contextual data layer for the ecosystem that will map relational networks and improve discovery, context, and searchability.

In this episode we’ll talk about the origins of JPG, community co-curation for the Dynamic and Conceptual Art Canons, and observations from earlier years in Ethereum through DeFi summer and the NFTs bull market up to present day.

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