Yap721 is an artwork released by artist CryptoZR in 2021, inspired by the stone coins of Yap Island, which was the earliest form of accounting in human history.
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。
The current ownership and historical circulation were recorded on the stone coins, and a consensus was reached through the collective memory of the villagers.
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。
The island did not produce this type of stone, so the villagers needed to go to Palau Island, 400 kilometers away to obtain this stone-shaped currency,which is similar to Bitcoin’s proof of work mechanism.
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。
In their history, some sailors lost their lives in the process of transporting Yap Island stone coins due to maritime disasters, but the value and ownership of those stones at the bottom of the sea can still be recognized by the villagers.
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。
From early single-entry bookkeeping to the current leading double-entry bookkeeping of corporate governance, and now to the distributed bookkeeping of the cryptocurrency era, societies’ understandings of wealth are constantly evolving.
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。
From Bitcoin’s UTXO to the Token standards of Ethereum’s ERC20/ERC721, they are essentially ledgers that record the rights of ownership.
从比特币的UTXO到以太坊ERC20/ERC721的Token标准，本质上它们都是账本，记录了拥有者的权益。
In this way, crypto artworks in the form of NFTs are just like Yap Island stone coins. Every transaction in circulation will leave the marks of its past owners on the stone coin.
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。
The artist CryptoZR engraved the hexadecimal code of the Bitcoin genesis block on one side of a stone coin and the ETH addresses of its TopBidder NFT collectors in a circular manner on the other side.
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。
On this physical artwork, each NFT collector has left their mark, becoming a part of the artwork itself. At the same time, in the crypto world, each collector is also permanently recorded by their address on the blockchain.
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；同时在加密世界中，每一位藏家也在链上被永久纪录。