For years, JPG.store was the default Cardano NFT marketplace — listings, offers, collections, and later Comet tooling all lived there. In spring 2026 that era ended. The team sunset JPG Store and Comet, citing that the platforms were no longer sustainable to operate after serving the ecosystem since 2021.
If you still see “missing” NFTs that never came back to your wallet, you’re not alone. Most of those assets were never deleted. They sit in JPG listing smart contracts on Cardano — and they can still be cancelled on-chain.
The wind-down timeline
JPG ran a two-phase exit that many holders only half-read until the website went dark.
- 23 April 2026 — Restriction Mode. New listings, offers, minting, and loans stopped. Existing listings could still be bought; users could cancel listings, withdraw offers, and repay loans through the site.
- 23 May 2026 — Full sunset. Marketplace UI shut off. jpg.store became a goodbye page. You could no longer cancel or reclaim through JPG’s own interface.
What JPG itself says now
The live jpg.store homepage is a farewell notice. It states that JPG Store and Comet have been sunset, and — critically — that the smart contracts remain live. JPG points people to other marketplaces or Cardano CLI to interact with those contracts.
That last sentence is the whole story for recovery: the website left; the contracts did not.
Why so many NFTs stayed locked
During Restriction Mode, JPG urged sellers to cancel listings and withdraw offers. Plenty of people did. Plenty did not — travel, forgotten wallets, collections they thought were “safe,” social-login confusion, or simply missing the May deadline.
After 23 May, the easy button disappeared. Casual users were told to use CLI or “other marketplaces.” For most collectors that meant months of NFTs sitting on JPG contract addresses with no obvious path home.
Offers locked ADA the same way. Loans and Comet flows added more edge cases. The common pattern: ownership is still yours in the datum, but spending requires a cancel/withdraw transaction against the correct JPG validator.
What this means in 2026
JPG is gone as a product. Cardano still holds every unspent listing. If you controlled the seller key when you listed, you can still reclaim — without JPG’s servers, without paying a recovery middleman, and without giving anyone your seed phrase.
That’s what CardaNFT’s free reclaim tool is for: find JPG-locked UTxOs for your wallet, build the cancel transaction in the browser, and return the NFT to you.