Frequently asked questions

Smart­Stamp is the pio­neer­ing new stan­dard in iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and authen­ti­ca­tion for the art world that com­bines secure, envi­ron­men­tal­ly sus­tain­able, and easy-to-use tech­nol­o­gy. Devel­oped over more than a decade, SmartStamp’s app uses patent­ed AI tech­nol­o­gy that is designed to read and record art­works’ sur­face char­ac­ter­is­tics – offer­ing artists, col­lec­tors, insti­tu­tions, and all arts and cul­ture stake­hold­ers a way to secure­ly and immutably link phys­i­cal objects to their dig­i­tal fin­ger­prints on the blockchain. Using the Smart­Stamp app is as sim­ple as tak­ing a pic­ture, mak­ing the ground­break­ing secu­ri­ty and time­stamp­ing pow­er of blockchain tech­nol­o­gy acces­si­ble to any­one who can use a smartphone.

Smart­Stamp uses patent­ed tech­nol­o­gy to read an object’s sur­face char­ac­ter­is­tics, sup­port­ing the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and ver­i­fi­ca­tion of works to pro­tect all stake­hold­ers against coun­ter­feit­ing, authen­tic­i­ty dis­putes, and IP infringe­ment. Smart­Stamp also allows users to build an endur­ing archive and cat­a­logue of their works. 

No, access to Smart­Stamp can be pur­chased with a cred­it card.

Any­one can access SmartStamp’s tech­nol­o­gy by down­load­ing the Smart­Stamp mobile app, which will be avail­able in 2022. The Smart­Stamp API is also avail­able for enter­prise partners. 

Smart­Stamp will be avail­able to users through an afford­able sub­scrip­tion mod­el to be announced in 2022. Cus­tomized pric­ing is avail­able for enter­prise partners.

You only need your smart­phone cam­era to use Smart­Stamp. Enter­prise part­ners can also opt to use our pur­pose-built indus­tri­al cam­era. No spe­cial light­ing or oth­er devices are needed.

Smart­Stamp uses patent­ed AI tech­nol­o­gy to read the micro­sur­face of an art­work. Just by tak­ing a pho­to with a smart­phone, Smart­Stamp users can cre­ate tam­per-proof dig­i­tal fin­ger­prints, which store and time­stamp the artwork’s data and meta­da­ta on the blockchain. These dig­i­tal fin­ger­prints are immutable records of the art­work. Even as these sur­faces change, SmartStamp’s patent­ed AI cre­ates a new, immutable ver­sion of the fingerprint. 

Each dig­i­tal fin­ger­print may be used to cre­ate a next-gen­er­a­tion Cer­tifi­cate of Authen­tic­i­ty or object iden­ti­fy proof that can be export­ed, shared, and trans­ferred to oth­ers or inte­grat­ed with pro­fes­sion­al col­lec­tion man­age­ment sys­tems for opti­mal effi­cien­cy. They can also be mint­ed into NFTs. 

Smart­Stamp is for any­one involved in the cre­ation, preser­va­tion, pro­tec­tion, and pur­chase of art and col­lectibles, includ­ing artists, col­lec­tors, gal­leries, muse­ums, art lend­ing, logis­tics and stor­age solu­tion companies. 

Yes. SmartStamp’s immutable cer­tifi­cates enable the direct link­ing of NFTs to phys­i­cal art, open­ing up the pos­si­bil­i­ty of secure, dig­i­tal trade of phys­i­cal objects.

Once the dig­i­tal fin­ger­print is made, Smart­Stamp cre­ates a per­ma­nent Blockchain Event Log, with the data and meta­da­ta of the object’s reg­is­tra­tion and ver­i­fi­ca­tions. Users can access the event log – the record of each time the fin­ger­print is ver­i­fied – through the app or inde­pen­dent­ly with the cor­rect URL link. Infor­ma­tion on objects that have been added to Smart­Stamp is acces­si­ble through the app.