Activate the cultural value of art.
Collect differently.
A market without a unified trust infrastructure
The art market suffers from structural fragmentation. Works are dispersed, information is fragmented, and relationships between artists, collectors, and institutions remain isolated.
Fragmented continuity
Archives remain dispersed among galleries, institutions, and private collections. Provenance is interrupted with every change of hands. The memory of the work is lost along the way.
The purely transactional logic
Traceability has progressed, but the relationship with the work has been impoverished — reduced to a logic of circulation and price. What was gained in proof was lost in meaning.
Absence of a unified framework
There is a lack of an infrastructure capable of linking proof, memory, anchoring, and use in the same coherent registry — recognized by institutions, open to collectors, faithful to artists.
The SeedArt Cultural Registry™
An infrastructure that structures each artwork across four dimensions — its certification, its documentation, its physical anchoring, and its forms of activation — organizing within a unique framework the relationship between the artwork, its keepers, its rights, and its history.
Certification
Proof of authenticity inscribed on blockchain. Each work receives a unique identifier, linked to its documented provenance and its physical anchoring.
Documentation
Enriched memory of the work: images, technical files, contexts, exhibition history. Documentation constitutes the cultural dimension of the Registry.
Physical anchoring
Link between the real work and its Registry via an NFC chip. Authenticity is established; the physical anchoring is permanent.
Activation
Forms of use: exhibition, edition, participation. The work enters circulation within a recognized framework — the corpus remains alive over time. The pilot project Les Fables en mouvement, a corpus of 275 paintings by André Quellier inspired by La Fontaine, illustrates this articulation of the four dimensions.
Certification
An inviolable proof that links the physical work to its digital Registry — without replacing human documentation, without reducing the work to an asset.
Step 01
Physical anchoring
The NFC chip is fixed to the work, forming a permanent anchor. Any tampering breaks the physical seal, signaling the alteration of the link between the work and its Registry.
Step 02
Inscription in the Registry
The partner gallery inscribes the certificate on blockchain, linking the chip to the work's documentation: provenance, technical file, condition report.
Step 03
Open verification
Anyone can consult a work's Registry from a phone — the provenance, exhibition history, condition report, successive inscriptions.
Step 04
Documentary continuity
Every scan, transfer, exhibition, and update is inscribed in the Registry. The work builds its story over time, transmissible to the rightful heirs.
NFC chip with inviolable SUN authentication
Tezos L1 — FA2 standard (TZIP-12/21)
AES-128 encryption, inviolable physical anchoring
Certified editions
Editions associated with a work allow for a measured circulation of the corpus. Each edition is inscribed in the Cultural Registry and remains linked to the original work.
Archival quality
Each edition is produced with archival techniques, in dialogue with museum standards, without reducing the original work or replacing it.
Inscribed numbering
The edition number and its provenance are inscribed in the Registry. Traceability accompanies the work over time.
Measured circulation
The distribution of editions is carried out within a framework that respects the rhythm of the corpus — without saturating the market, without diluting the provenance.
Continuity of rights
The artist's continuity of rights is maintained in each circulation. It is structured in the certificate, not depending on an intermediary.
A trust infrastructure
Technology serves the cultural value of the work — it does not replace it, it does not reduce it. Four components articulate the Cultural Registry.
L1
Tezos L1 — Certification
The Tezos L1 public chain inscribes the certificates for each work. Inscription is permanent, open to consultation, and independent of any operator.
L2
Base L2 — Circulation
The Base L2 chain structures the editions and circulation of the works. Movements remain traceable; continuity of rights is maintained at each step.
L3
IPFS — Documentation
Documentary archives — images, technical files, contexts — are preserved on IPFS. Documentation is accessible long-term, without a central server.
L4
NFC — Physical anchoring
The NFC chip fixes the work to its Registry. The link is direct, physical, and inviolable — and is uniquely established at the moment of certification.
Safeguards
The integrity of the Registry rests on three pillars — end-to-end encryption, institutional access control, and independence from the public chain. None of these pillars depends on a single operator.
Consultation tools
An application that allows scanning each work, consulting its inscription in the Registry, and verifying the physical anchoring from anywhere.
Registry consultation
Bring the device close to the work to access its Registry: provenance, certification, circulation history. Verification is immediate and inscribed.
Corpus notices
Receive notices about new inscriptions in the corpus you follow — exhibitions, editions, key moments in the circulation of works.
Registry journey
Navigate the Registry, discover the corpora of artists and partner galleries, organize your own constellation of followed works.