COMPARISON OF BLOCKCHAIN-BASED PROVENANCE COMPANIES No. of Artists Registered: Over 87 artists have registered art pieces on ArtChain.info, including some of today's most renowned international artists (e.g., Alec Monopoly, Deborah Azzopardi, Gary Komarin, Eric Zener, Hiro Ando, Aaron Nagel and many more). Although Verisart and Codex have launched beta versions of their platforms, they provide no information on the number of artists that have registered, and the other blockch

There are a number of offerings on the market today including Verisart, Ascribe and Tagsmart that claim to authenticate art pieces by issuing digital certificates of authenticity. This post attempts to explain the differences between these offerings as compared to ArtChain.info which tracks the ownership of art using the bitcoin blockchain. It's only an attempt that involves a certain amount of speculation since it's not exactly clear how these other systems work, and their