NGs the true record

ngs is a collaboration between jak & hiroji kotegawa. a time capsule of web3 culture at the peak of the 2022 mania. it was the follow-up to ogs, the first collection jak and hiroji made together. where ogs set the foundation, ngs pushed the process further: more intensive, with characters tied directly to the moment.

jak and hiroji drew & rendered roughly 5,000 works one at a time using an analogue process that combined illustration, glitch, 3d modeling & animation. from those, they curated down to 1,111. there are 111 different types. some original characters, some tributes to the crypto artists & collectors who shaped that era, & a handful of 1/1s that appear only once in the collection.

through 2023, ngs traded close to 300 eth in secondary volume on opensea, with many large sales.

then on december 5, 2023, a vulnerability was discovered in thirdweb's contracts that put the assets of many artists & collections at risk. to protect collectors, jak and hiroji froze the original ngs contract, migrated the collection to manifold, and airdropped replacements to every holder.

at the time, the art was preserved, but the record was not.

what looks like almost no secondary sales history and low volume on opensea today is misleading.

half a year of creating the collection, another half a year of building a community around NGs and the entire trace of that success was erased by the thirdweb contract vulnerability. the loss was massive for hundreds of artists & collectors at the time across the web3 ecosystem who had created and collected nfts using thirdweb.

this page exists to surface what can still be recovered from the chain. every event, both contracts, side by side, so the record isn't quietly lost to indexer migrations and marketplace reassignments. maybe one day it can be fully restored properly. until then, this is what remains.

before the migration & the indexer reshuffles, here's what the marketplace itself was showing.