JAKE
jke.eth
- Identity
- Pseudonym
- Links
- Wallets
- KnownOrigin
- 2 copies across 2 works, collected since September 2021; 1 held at the latest snapshot
JAKE is the published artistic name of Jake Osmun, whom nft now described as a music photographer who moved into multimedia crypto art during 2021.1 Institutional documentation for Kunsthalle Zürich’s “DYOR” records JAKE THE DEGEN among seven artists invited by XCOPY to contribute derivative work around “Right-click and Save As guy”; the resulting presentation formed part of the exhibition’s participatory “24 SEEDERS” installation.2
On X in January 2025, JAKE recalled having “Traded him 3 or 4 cryptoadz and some eth for a 1/5 XCOPY rubble. Highway robbery.”3 In May 2025 the artist asked, “anyone wanna buy all my xcopy? i believe in myself more.”4
Collecting record
| Date | Work | Copy | Event | ETH | Transaction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rubble | 4/5 | Received | · | 0x9bee…f575 | |
| Rubble | 4/5 | Transferred out | · | 0x35b1…d505 | |
| The Damage | 13/25 | Received | · | 0x029c…56fa |
References
Interviews and first-person sources
Cited for this account: Highway robbery.”
jakethedegen, Post: Trading CrypToadz for Rubble, X, 29 January 2025, x.com/jakethedegen/status/1884710714566467979 (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎
Cited for this account: i believe in myself more.”
JAKE, “anyone wanna buy all my xcopy? i believe in myself more,” X, 24 May 2025, x.com/jakethedegen/status/1926126390769827924 (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎
Exhibitions, market and institutional records
Cited for this account: Institutional documentation for Kunsthalle Zürich’s “DYOR” records JAKE THE DEGEN among seven artists invited by XCOPY to contribute derivative work around “Right-click and Save As guy”; the resulting presentation formed part of the exhibition’s participatory “24 SEEDERS” installation.
OnCurating, DYOR: Making sense of the crypto art world, PDF, issue 63, December 2025, on-curating.org/files/oc/dateiverwaltung/issue63/PDF_to_Download_63/OnCurating_Issue63_WEB.pdf (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎
Press and criticism
Cited for this account: JAKE is the published artistic name of Jake Osmun, whom nft now described as a music photographer who moved into multimedia crypto art during 2021.
“22 rising NFT artists to watch in 2022,” NFT Now, nftnow.com/art/next-up-rising-nft-artists-to-watch-2022 (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎