Artovium links a physical artwork to a tamper-evident digital record, so artists, galleries and collectors can prove where a piece came from.
The challenge
Art provenance is often paper-based, easy to lose and hard to verify, which hurts resale value and opens the door to forgery.
Our approach
We paired physical tags with on-chain records and an AR viewer, so scanning a piece shows its history, ownership and artist-authored media.
The outcome
A working provenance model that ties the object and its record together and can travel with the artwork through every sale.
Technical highlights
- Smart contracts storing ownership transfers and provenance events
- Physical tag (NFC/QR) to digital record binding
- AR overlay that surfaces artist media on the physical piece
- Off-chain media storage with on-chain content hashes
Place in the journey
2025+ Rust + Agentic Systems + Open SourcePart of the 2025+ Rust + Agentic Systems + Open Source chapter of Marco Lopes' work.