Jack Butcher launches NFT artwork ‘8’ sold via $8 transfers on X Money

Jack Butcher, the digital artist behind the wildly successful Checks collection, is back with a new open-edition NFT project that leans into one of the internet’s newest payment rails. The project, titled “8,” asks participants to send exactly $8 through X Money, the invite-only digital wallet baked into the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, with their Ethereum address tucked into the memo field. It’s a deceptively simple mechanic with a clever twist: each transaction ID generated by the $8 payment serves as a random seed for creating a unique piece of generative artwork. How the drop works The project launched on September 20, 2026, with a 24-hour minting window that closed at 8 PM EST on September 21. Butcher committed to matching payment records against participant submissions to ensure proper delivery of the artwork, and pledged refunds for any payments that arrived after the deadline. The mechanics are straightforward but unusual for an NFT drop. Rather than connecting a wallet to a minting site and approving a blockchain transaction, participants simply used X Money to send $8 directly. The Ethereum address in the memo field tells Butcher where to deliver the f...