WUNDER has completed the first digital art-backed assets transactions using the Patron Protocol on blockchain technology. The ING Collection in Amsterdam purchased one of the first fractional ownership shares, representing 12,5% ownership in a master copy from the video art work by the Romanian ...

Posted: August 30, 2019

Category: Blockchain

On April 30, 2019, Editional, a start-up based in New York announced it had raised US$1.5 million with notable investors including ConsenSys Ventures, Digital Currency Group, and CoinFund. The company launched a blockchain-powered interactive social platform where digital artists or creators can ...

Posted: May 15, 2019

Category: Blockchain, Technology

Recently, ArtMarketGuru came across monart, a new French-based start-up founded by Malo Girod de l’Ain and Pauline Houl. Malo Girod de l’Ain is a serial entrepreneur who founded art production and internet publishing companies. Pauline Houl manages a large art center in Beijing with a strong ...

Posted: April 26, 2019

Category: Blockchain, Interviews

With over 25 years of experience as a leading business entrepreneur, David Dehaeck is the Co-founder and CEO of Artfintech.one and co-founder of WUNDER. Dehaeck is passionate about decentralizing what is currently top-down centralized in the art market. His focus is on making the art market more ...

Posted: March 28, 2019

Category: Blockchain, Interviews, Technology

Artwook is an art shared ownership trading platform based on blockchain technology. The new platform claims to integrate blockchain technology into the traditional art markets and is grounded in a shared economy. Here, we speak to Artwook’s CEO Rui Cai and CATO Qinwen Wang on how the new platform ...

Posted: January 29, 2019

Category: Blockchain, Interviews

Masha McConaghy is the Founder of ascribe, a service enabling immutable attribution for artists with clear provenance for both digital and physical art; BigchainDB, a blockchain database, tuned towards handling metadata and the co-founder of Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data exchange protocol to ...

Posted: January 18, 2019

Category: Blockchain, Interviews

Blockchain is the new Tech buzzword in the art market. Every month, it seems, a press release comes out announcing yet another “disruptive” blockchain application. The claims include a range of industry-shattering functionality, including: the end of issues involving provenance, the ability of ...

Posted: January 3, 2019

Category: Blockchain, Market

The name “Bitcoin” has become universal. Even those who work in the cosseted art market have heard of it. Meanwhile, others have boldly gone on to establish their own digital currencies, like Artbyte’s Artbyte, Maecenas’s ART, artist Sarah Meyohas’s Bitchcoin . Tech entrepreneurs envision ...

Posted: November 30, 2018

Category: Blockchain

Sascha Bailey is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a significant history of working in the art industry. He has curated over 10 exhibitions in London and worked with a long list of artists including Damien Hirst, Tony Craig, David Bailey and Brain Clarke. Son to photographer David Bailey, ...

Posted: November 1, 2018

Category: Blockchain, Interviews

The three trillion dollar Art and Collectibles (A&C) market is often a major target for fraud and forgery. The market has been facing these issues for decades with not only single pieces of artwork being forged but whole collections as well. Major advances in nanotechnology and Artificial ...

Posted: August 31, 2018

Category: Blockchain, Technology