> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.cryptozr.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # YAP721 - URL: https://blog.cryptozr.net/works/yap721/ - Published: 2021-01-01T12:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-30T16:10:50.000Z - Description: 雅浦岛石币的一面刻着比特币创世区块十六进制码，另一面环刻此 NFT 历任53位藏家地址，两种相隔数千年的账本互为注解。 - Author: CryptoZR - Tags: NFT, #artwork ### 基本信息 - 艺术家：CryptoZR - 创作年份：2021 - 创作平台：以太坊 - 创作材料：青铜/NFT - 合约地址：[0x053afa4d216f20dd0c15631fb1fb26a02b152c09](https://etherscan.io/address/0x053afa4d216f20dd0c15631fb1fb26a02b152c09) - 版本数：3/3 - 资产属性：铜质雕塑/ERC721 - 作品类型：协议创新与底层 ### 作品介绍 ![](https://storage.dfi.today/image/yap721-1.jpg) Yap721是艺术家CryptoZR于2021年发布的作品，灵感来自雅浦岛石币，这是人类最初的账本形态。 石币上刻录了当前归属和历史流转，并通过村民的集体记忆达成共识。 雅浦岛本地并不产出这种石头，村民需要去400公里之外的帕劳岛去获取这种石头状的货币，类似于比特币的工作量证明机制。 在他们的历史中，有人在运输雅浦岛石币的过程中因为海难而失去生命，但沉在海底的那些石币的价值和归属仍可以得到村民的承认。 从早期单式记账法到引领公司制的复式记账法，再到加密货币时代的分布式记账法，人们对于财富的认知也在不断迭代。 而ERC721形态的加密艺术品，就像一个个的雅浦岛石币。每一次的交易流转，都会在石币上刻下它们的曾经拥有者的印记。 艺术家CryptoZR将比特币创世区块的16进制码刻在石币的一面，同时将作品NFT在TopBidder的藏家地址以环绕的形式刻制在石币上。 在这件实体作品上，每一位NFT藏家都留下了自己的痕迹，成为作品本体的一部分。 ### 创作背景 ### 创作理念 ### 创作形式 作品由一枚刻制了比特币数据的实体雅浦岛石币和对应的TopBidder NFT共同构成。 创作形式： - **实体石币**：以雅浦岛传统石币形制（Rai Stone）制作的实体艺术品，表面刻制两种内容： - 正面：比特币创世区块（Genesis Block）的16进制编码 - 背面：该NFT在TopBidder协议上所有历史持有者的以太坊地址（环绕排列） - **NFT载体**：对应发行TopBidder协议的ERC721 NFT，记录了链上的所有权变更历史 - **双重记录**：每次NFT易主，新藏家的以太坊地址会被刻制在实体石币上，实现"链上记录"与"链下实物"的永久绑定 - **Proof of Work呼应**：石币的制作（手工刻制）与雅浦岛民跨海运输石币的工作量，对应比特币的工作量证明机制 ### 作品评论 **AI艺评员** — 2026年 《YAP721》是CryptoZR创作体系中人类学视野最为开阔的作品，也是其少数同时涵盖实体艺术品和NFT两个维度的案例。作品以雅浦岛石币（Rai Stones）这一人类最早的分布式账本为历史锚点，将比特币区块链的创世记忆刻入石币的物理表面，完成了一次跨越数千年的技术与记忆的嫁接。 **技法分析：** 作品的媒介结合极为考究：实体石币以传统雕刻工艺刻制比特币创世区块的16进制代码，以及TopBidder NFT所有历史持有者的以太坊地址。这一双重刻制使石币成为了一份永久性的物理-数字双重档案：链上地址记录可通过区块链查询，石币表面的刻文则在链不再运行后仍然存在。 **艺术史比较：** 《YAP721》与Joseph Beuys的"社会雕塑"（Social Sculpture）概念有内在的共鸣：两者都关注艺术如何重塑社会关系和交换结构。但Beuys的媒介是人类的对话和协作，CryptoZR的媒介是区块链协议和物理石头——一种极度去人格化的社会雕塑。更直接的艺术史参照是Mark Dion的档案艺术实践，以及Walid Raad的《阿特拉斯集团档案》——都是将历史文献的收集与展示本身转化为艺术行为。 **主题与象征：** 雅浦岛石币是人类历史上对"共识"最直白的例证：石币的价值不依赖物理存在（沉入海底的石币仍然有效），而依赖全体村民的集体记忆和承认。这与比特币的核心机制惊人地吻合。《YAP721》将这两种相隔数千年的"分布式账本"并置于同一件作品中，提出了一个关于人类共识本质的跨时代命题：无论是村民的集体记忆，还是全球节点的密码学验证，驱动价值流通的都是对规则的共同认可，而非底层物质的固有价值。 **理性评价：** 《YAP721》是CryptoZR作品中历史感最强、人文厚度最高的一件，也是最能有效向非加密领域受众打开对话空间的作品——石币的人类学背景为艺术史框架提供了充足的接入点。其挑战在于：实体石币与NFT之间的对应关系在展览语境中需要较多解释才能被完整理解，单独展示任何一个维度都会削弱作品的完整性。总体而言，《YAP721》是一件在概念层面高度完成的作品，其思想密度值得更广泛的学术关注。 ### 参展信息 **1\. CRYPTO ZR: ARRIVAL — 伦敦萨奇美术馆** - 展出时间：2023年5月26日-28日 - 展出地点：伦敦，萨奇美术馆，3号画廊 - 主办方：CryptoZR & Li Zhenhua - 策展人：李振华 - 展览详情：[CryptoZR-Arrival.md](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/crypto-zr-arrival/) **2\. CryptoZR: COOKIE COOKIE 2.0 — 威尼斯双年展** - 展出时间：2022年4月21日-11月23日 - 展出地点：意大利威尼斯，军械库 Lamierini 2号馆 - 主办方：第一届威尼斯元宇宙双年展 - 策展人：李振华 - 展览详情：[CookieCookie2-Venice.md](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/cookie-cookie2-venice/) **3\. CryptoZR: COOKIE COOKIE — 北京个展** - 展出时间：2021年5月-6月 - 展出地点：北京，嘉德艺术中心 - 主办方：嘉德艺术中心 - 策展人：李振华 - 展览详情：[CookieCookie-Beijing.md](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/cookie-cookie-beijing/) **4\. 过去的未来主义** - 展出时间：2021年10月 - 展出地点：北京，北京展览馆 - 主办方：北京展览馆 - 展览详情：[PastFuturism.md](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/past-futurism/) **了不起的“她们”——福布斯中国致敬卓越女性艺术家邀请展** - 展出时间：2024年1月6日至3月31日 - 展出地点：北京，凤凰中心 - 展出作品：《YAP721》青铜雕塑及 NFT - 现场报道：[凤凰艺术展览报道](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/fenghuang-art-women-artists/) ### 媒体报道 **凤凰艺术 专访 | 又是北京？全球首个区块链及加密艺术主题个展即将举办** - 报道媒体：凤凰艺术 - 报道时间：2021-04-22 - 报道地点：线上 - 报道原文链接： - 报道摘要：北京个展预热专访刊载《Yap721》青铜作品图像，并介绍展览背景。 - 报道全文：[FenghuangArt-CookieCookieInterview.md](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/fenghuang-art-cookie-cookie-interview/) **刘嘉颖、曹斐、韩娅娟｜冲破传统，探索未来语境中艺术的多重可能- 凤凰艺术** - 报道媒体：凤凰艺术 - 报道时间：2024-03-27 - 报道地点：线上 - 报道原文链接： - 报道摘要：报道《YAP721》在北京凤凰中心的展出及其青铜雕塑、NFT 双重形式。 - 报道全文：[FenghuangArt-WomenArtists.md](https://blog.cryptozr.net/news/fenghuang-art-women-artists/) ### 作品介绍视频 ### Basic Information - Artist: CryptoZR - Year: 2021 - Platform: Ethereum - Materials: Bronze / NFT - Contract / Address: 0x053afa4d216f20dd0c15631fb1fb26a02b152c09 - Edition: 3/3 - Asset Type: Bronze Sculpture / ERC-721 - Category: Protocol Innovation & Infrastructure ### Introduction Yap721 is a work released by the artist CryptoZR in 2021, inspired by the stone money of Yap Island — humanity's earliest form of ledger. The stone coins record current ownership and the history of their transfers, and consensus is reached through the collective memory of the villagers. The stone is not found on Yap itself; villagers had to travel 400 kilometres to Palau to obtain this stone-shaped money, much like Bitcoin's proof-of-work mechanism. In their history some people lost their lives in shipwrecks while transporting Yap stone money, yet the value and ownership of the coins that sank to the sea floor were still acknowledged by the villagers. From early single-entry bookkeeping, to the double-entry bookkeeping that made the corporation possible, to the distributed ledgers of the cryptocurrency era, human understanding of wealth has kept on iterating. And crypto artworks in ERC-721 form are just like so many Yap stone coins. Every transfer inscribes on the stone the mark of its former owners. The artist CryptoZR carved the hexadecimal code of the Bitcoin genesis block on one face of the stone coin, and inscribed around it the addresses of the collectors who have held the work's NFT on TopBidder. On this physical work every NFT collector has left a trace of their own and become part of the body of the work itself. ### Form The work consists of a physical Yap stone coin inscribed with Bitcoin data together with its corresponding TopBidder NFT. Form of creation: Physical stone coin: a physical artwork made in the form of a traditional Yap stone coin (rai stone), its surface inscribed with two kinds of content: Obverse: the hexadecimal encoding of the Bitcoin genesis block Reverse: the Ethereum addresses of all historical holders of the NFT on the TopBidder protocol, arranged in a ring NFT vehicle: a corresponding ERC-721 NFT issued on the TopBidder protocol, recording the on-chain history of ownership Dual record: each time the NFT changes hands the new collector's Ethereum address is inscribed on the physical stone coin, permanently binding the "on-chain record" to the "off-chain object" Echo of proof of work: the making of the stone coin (carved by hand) and the labour of the Yap islanders in transporting the stones across the sea correspond to Bitcoin's proof-of-work mechanism ### Reviews **AI Art Critic** YAP721 has the broadest anthropological horizon of any work in CryptoZR's oeuvre, and is one of the few that spans both a physical artwork and an NFT. Taking the rai stones of Yap Island — humanity's earliest distributed ledger — as its historical anchor, the work inscribes the genesis memory of the Bitcoin blockchain onto the physical surface of a stone coin, grafting technology onto memory across several thousand years. Technique: The combination of media is finely judged: the physical stone coin is carved by traditional means with the hexadecimal code of the Bitcoin genesis block and with the Ethereum addresses of every historical holder of the TopBidder NFT. This double inscription makes the stone a permanent physical-digital archive: the on-chain record of addresses can be queried through the blockchain, while the carving on the stone's surface will remain even after the chain has ceased to run. Art-historical comparison: YAP721 resonates inwardly with Joseph Beuys's concept of social sculpture: both are concerned with how art reshapes social relations and structures of exchange. But Beuys's medium was human dialogue and collaboration, whereas CryptoZR's is a blockchain protocol and a physical stone — an extremely depersonalised social sculpture. More immediate art-historical references are the archival practices of Mark Dion and Walid Raad's Atlas Group Archive, both of which turn the collection and display of historical documents into an artistic act in itself. Themes and symbolism: The rai stones of Yap are the plainest illustration of consensus in human history: the value of a stone does not depend on its physical presence (a stone sunk to the sea floor remains valid) but on the collective memory and acknowledgement of all the villagers. This coincides strikingly with Bitcoin's core mechanism. By placing these two distributed ledgers, separated by millennia, within a single work, YAP721 poses a trans-historical proposition about the nature of human consensus: whether it is the collective memory of villagers or the cryptographic verification of global nodes, what drives the circulation of value is shared acknowledgement of the rules, not any inherent value in the underlying material. Critical assessment: YAP721 has the strongest sense of history and the greatest humanistic depth of CryptoZR's works, and is the one best able to open a dialogue with audiences outside the crypto field — the anthropological background of the stone money offers ample points of entry within an art-historical framework. Its challenge is that the correspondence between the physical stone and the NFT requires a good deal of explanation to be fully grasped in an exhibition context, and showing either dimension alone weakens the work's integrity. On the whole YAP721 is highly accomplished at the conceptual level, and its density of thought deserves wider scholarly attention. ### Exhibitions **1\. CRYPTO ZR: ARRIVAL — Saatchi Gallery, London** - Dates: 26–28 May 2023 - Location: Gallery 3, Saatchi Gallery, London **2\. CryptoZR: COOKIE COOKIE 2.0 — Venice Biennale** - Dates: 21 April – 23 November 2022 - Location: Lamierini Hall 2, Arsenale, Venice, Italy **3\. Futurism of the Past** - Dates: October 2021 - Location: Beijing Exhibition Centre, Beijing **4\. CryptoZR: COOKIE COOKIE — Solo Exhibition, Beijing** - Dates: May–June 2021 - Location: Guardian Art Center, Beijing ### Image ### Video