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Verisart, a company that certifies art authenticity through blockchain, raises $2.5 million to further expand its commercial platform.
Verisart, a company that certifies art authenticity through blockchain technology, has raised $2.5 million to further expand its commercial art platform.
Verify and track provenance of art
In an Oct. 3 article by Techcrunch, it was announced that Verisart raised $2.5 million in seed financing led by Galaxy Digital EOS Fund, alongside investment firms Sinai Ventures and Rhodium.
The funding will go toward expanding Verisartâs product and engineering team and will make it possible to launch a whole range of services aimed at artists, galleries and collectors. Verisartâs CEO Robert Norton said:
âWith this new round of funding, weâre able to scale our business and ramp up our partnership integrations. The art world is quickly realizing that blockchain provides a new standard in provenance and record-keeping and weâre looking forward to extending these services to the industry.â
Verisart, which per the report is the first company to apply blockchain technology to the physical art and collectibles market, allows artists to create digital certificates that verify and track the provenance of a specific art piece as it gets stored on the Bitcoin blockchain.Â
David Hockney paintings sold via blockchain
Cointelegraph reported in August that South Korean art-focused blockchain project ArtBloc conducted a fractionalized ownership sale of two paintings by popular British painter David Hockney. ArtBloc introduced the blockchain-enabled fractionalized ownership sale of the David Hockneyâs paintings in Seoul on Sept. 19.
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