NFTs have burst onto the scene in a big way, and no more so than in the art world with digital works tied to NFTs heralded as a ‘new art medium’, and all, including established auction houses, art galleries and others, rushing to mint, promote and curate digital art and…

As the digital art Non-Fungible Token (NFT) boom rages on, and one Clubhouse session after the other waxes lyrical about decentralization and how we are on the cusp of disintermediating established art market protagonists, one really has to ask what actually is this whole thing about? Having been shouted down…

What Was: Security and Utility Tokens Almost two years have disappeared in a heartbeat, but nothing much substantial appears to have changed on the US securities regulatory landscape for blockchain tokens and other digital assets. When it comes to any substantive pronouncement, the date of The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Strategic Hub for Financial Innovation…

We’ve been telling you about this for a while, and now it is here! Now with the Fine Art Ledger, you can identify art and get the story behind the art by taking a picture of the art with your mobile phone! FAL’s image recognition matches the pic with fine…

While the spotlight has recently been on established auction houses anti-money laundering (“AML”), counter-terrorism and sanctions compliance, and the prospect of the United States, like the United Kingdom and the European Union before it, making AML compliance mandatory for art industry protagonists, there appears to be little focus on the…

In an earlier post, Fine Art goes online: the (virtual) reality of COVID-19 and the changing face of the fine art market, we wrote about how the art market was trying to adapt to the ravages of COVID-19. We noted how art galleries were rushing to virtual platforms, art viewing…

Blue Bite, the company that brings physical products to life using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, and FAL partner recently published a case study on The Fine Art Ledger highlighting FAL’s unique ability to digitize works of art and use its art blockchain platform as a step towards solving the…

Our previous posts highlighted how you can add content to your works of fine art through your Fine Art Ledger member’s account. From videos, images, to links to websites about the artist or your fine art, to documents: all allowing you to aggregate your fine art info forming one, easily…

In our last post we introduced FAL’s awesome new feature which lets you keep all your fine art info with your fine art. And we mean that literally. Not just on an app that you need to download, or on a web page that you need to access, divorced from…