WhatA platform that lets artists register physical works with cryptographic signatures, enabling instant public verification of authorship without revealing the artist's identity.
SignalCommenters are genuinely puzzled about how Banksy's authorship is verified, pointing to a single opaque website as the arbiter of authenticity — revealing a gap between how physical art attribution works and what the public expects in a digital-native era.
Why NowPost-NFT disillusionment has separated the useful part (provenance verification) from the speculative part, and hardware-anchored cryptographic attestation is now cheap enough to embed in physical objects.
MarketArtists, galleries, auction houses, and insurers; global art authentication market ~$5B; competitors like Artory and Verisart focus on digital certificates but lack integration with anonymous creators.
MoatNetwork effects — the more artists and verifiers on the registry, the more authoritative it becomes as the canonical source of truth for physical art provenance.
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