# Canons As we’ve seen the Cambrian explosion of NFTs over the past two years, a new and very present need for curation and organization has emerged. A need to build a verifiable consensus, which both records and adapts as the NFT ecosystem grows and matures. JPG was born out of this collective need, from which we conceptualized the JPG Canons, a system similar to TCRs, coupled with a reputation system that allows the community to self-moderate bound by soft rules. A token-curated registry is a type of decentralized recommendation system. Via token voting, communities create decentrally-curated and trusted lists of things. **JPG Canons is a TCR system for the curation of NFT lists which are owned and maintained by communities. An open governance scheme with a JPG-native reputation system will regulate the functionality of the protocol and ensure the community members are good actors.** Since Canons are stored on-chain in Arweave, they become indexed “culture legos” that the rest of the NFT ecosystem will be able to use as public goods, such as a CC0 Canon recording all the CC0 projects or a Nouns Derivative Canon, showcasing all of the projects Nouns has inspired. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://jpg-protocol.gitbook.io/jpg-docs/canons.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.