Until today the traditional artmarket intermediaries refused to agree upon some commonly binding Code of Ethics. Many international conferences about ethical art trade, many initiatives from institutions and even global scholarships discussing these topics remained without results…! 

Since NFTs (unique non-fungible-tokens on the blockchain) have entered the artspace, we can use its benefits to store, verify & transfer immutable artwork data and docs on the blockchain. An NFT acts like an immutable COA tracking the object identification e.g. artworks authenticity, continuous state of ownership, provenance mapping, value performance etc.

Digital artworks for the first time can now certify one original and mint a COA inside its NFT smart contract. Physical artworks can also be uniquely marked after their proof of genuineness (e.g. by holo-, dna-, macropicture-, diamond dust signature methods). With these modern technologies almost any artwork original is ready for registration, presentation or discussion on the global ArtAuth Panel.

When it comes to the value of art, a transparently documented authentication is everything! Thumbs up or thumbs down? This crucial decision process is in the hands of either foundations, art experts, art historians, scholars, curators, advisors but also heirs and artist family members… 

… but in case your expertise is unfavourable about an artworks genuity, you may suddenly face a very expensive lawsuit directed from a tiny taxfree island far away. More often investors with deep pockets will try ruthlessly to push your opinion to their own favour..!

Here we are, in the foggy section of the glamorous artspace. It is an open secret that 30+% of artworks in circulation are fakes or forgeries and this problem does not only belong to the upperclass artdeals.

How will we proceed to finally – after centuries – establish commonly accepted Code of Ethics with all artmarket intermediaries and a secure environment to speak freely?  

With the help of NFTs per artwork we can operate a global ArtAuthentication registry and storage – And even better, we can operate ArtAuth as a DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation) which creates an independent metaversal society with transparent frameworks, anonymous communication and an open panel for secure evaluation of artworks e.g.

— with onchain DAO voting in every doubtful Auth case
— critically approving ArtAuth proposals/ documentation
— incentivise all helpful/ decisive community inputs …

Why not think further on this track? 
The DAO future is just around the corner!

NFTs and DAOs are based on smart contracts, that operate trustlessly and self enforced, also enabling very useful and efficient data gateways and decentralised applications, e.g. data oracles conferencing with Art libraries, Object ID documents etc. 

Please ask for details ref. the ArtAuth.DAO conception.

We are keen to launch this project by our own, but we are aware that an ArtAuth.DAO needs a variety of blockchain DEV skills first to work out the proposal and its possible roadmap. 
We must confess, the project is really huge concerning manpower and skillsets. We are open to talk business with you, we would love to discuss a joint venture… Because the ArtAuth DAO solution itself is so essentially important for establishing a modern, democratic, ethical arttrade… so we are also offering to sell the complete address bundle to you:

* The #Domainsale bundle includes:
ArtAuth.com/ ArtAuth.net / ArtAuth.de/ ArtAuth.dao/ ArtAuth.nft/ ArtAuth.eth  (also some matching social accounts @artauth for free.

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