ARC Blog
Insights, updates, and perspectives on art provenance and the future of art documentation.
Shining a Light on the Art Market: How Blockchain Brings Transparency to a Shadowy World
The art market is a paradox: a multi-billion-dollar industry celebrated for its creativity, yet shrouded in opacity. Prices fluctuate behind closed doors, provenance records vanish, and authenticity disputes can drag on for years.
Preserving Artistic Legacies with Blockchain: A New Era for Creators
For centuries, the art world has grappled with a paradox: while artworks endure as timeless expressions of human creativity, their histories—provenance, ownership, and authenticity—are often fragile, fragmented, or lost to time.
ART: The New Certificate of Authenticity / Digital COA
For centuries, the Certificate of Authenticity (COA) has been the cornerstone of proving an artwork's legitimacy. But as the art world grows increasingly digital and global, this antiquated system is proving insufficient. Enter ART (Artwork Registry Token)—a blockchain-based evolution of the COA.
The Problem with Art Documentation: Closed, Confusing, and Exclusive
Art documentation has long been a fractured, opaque, and often inaccessible system. In a world where provenance determines value, credibility, and authenticity, the art world remains burdened by outdated methods that favor exclusivity over transparency.