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Digital Assets: WISe.ART, a Part of WISeKey International Holding, Announces Investment to Support Hedera Network Adoption

WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (NASDAQ: WKEY), a global firm focused on cybersecurity, digital identity, and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions operating as a holding company, through its subsidiary WISe.ART, a key player in the field of digital art and luxury collectibles, is pleased to announce… Read More

Freeport Offers Fractional Art Investments, Launches with Warhols

Freeport, a fractional art investment platform, has launched for investors pitching a series of Warhol prints. Fractional investing is growing in interest as alternative asset classes can benefit from technology to simplify the process of purchasing a portion of an asset and potentially benefit from… Read More

Tokeny to Power Tokenized Art for Artory as it Seeks to Broaden Trading Platform Access

  Tokeny, a Luxembourg-based tokenization platform, has revealed a partnership with Artory to “unlock the  $1.7 trillion art market through the market tokenization, enabling greater access and liquidity to the asset class. Fine art is said to have outperformed the S&P 500 for over 20… Read More

Algorand, Artory Announce Art Collaborations

This month, Artory announced two major projects that deliver the benefits of the Algorand Blockchain to the traditional art market: the blockchain registration of Provenance Revealed: Galerie Steinitz in partnership with Christie’s and the launch of “a diversified and tokenized art fund which will secure… Read More

Republic Enters New Vertical with Art Offerings

Like several other platforms, Republic has entered the art or collectibles sector of online investing. Republic, which just closed on its acquisition of Seedrs, has grown to offer multiple investment verticals including, early stage ventures, real estate, crypto, gaming, litigation financing, and now art and… Read More

Masterworks Has Upended the Art World Empowering Anyone to Invest in Fine Art

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Masterworks has been in operation for a couple of years now (2019) but when the art-oriented investment crowdfunding platform raised a whopping $110 million at over a billion-dollar valuation, the world of online capital formation took notice. The Series A was led by Left Lane… Read More

Yieldstreet: Online Investment Platform Launches Art Equity Funds Boosting its Alternative Investment Options

Earlier this month, Yieldstreet – an investment crowdfunding platform, added a new art equity fund to its list of alternative investment options. Yieldstreet has emerged as a dynamic online investment platform providing smaller investors with options like short-term debt offerings, real estate, supply chain finance,… Read More

Mattias Tengblad: Corite Co-founder Says they’re Bringing Play to Earn Model to Music Industry

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We recently caught up with Mattias Tengblad, the Co-founder and CEO at Corite, a platform that allows artists and their fans to join forces. Via the Corite platform, people can invest in music they really love and get paid when it’s streamed on Spotify and… Read More

Fractional, Passion Investing: Alternative Investment Platform Yieldstreet Introduces Art Equity Platform

Yieldstreet, a multi-asset alternative investment platform that’s focused on reducing friction and offering “previously unattainable” access to alternatives for millions of consumers, announced the expansion of its art platform into equity ownership investments of physical art, “complementing the wide range of debt-backed opportunities offered.” As… Read More

Art Security Tokens: Picasso’s Fillette au béret Painting Is Co-owned by Over 50 investors, Sygnum Reveals

Last month, Sygnum had reportedly closed the subscription to its first Art Security Tokens (ASTs), representing the ownership rights to Picasso’s Fillette au béret painting. As noted in the announcement, this landmark initiative “enables investors to purchase and trade tokens in this 20th century masterpiece… Read More

NFT Owners May Raise Capital by Putting Up Their Non-Fungible Tokens as Collateral with Drops

The art and collectible markets are considerably more “liquidity-starved” when compared to the global equity, gold markets, and other assets. And this problem is even more prevalent in the NFT market, which is its early stages of development. It might take a long time to… Read More

NFT Art: Your Top 40 Legal Questions Answered

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were minted and sold under the radar until a relatively obscure artist sold an NFT for an immense sum. That seminal event invigorated interest in NFTs by artists, sales platforms, and collectors. In this column, we undertake to identify and answer, in… Read More

Qatar Development Bank and Creative Startup Hub M7 Launch Incubator to Support Tech Firms and other Businesses

The Qatar Development Bank (QDB) and M7, a creative start-up hub that’s operated under Qatar Museums, are introducing Scale7, which is a business incubator for MENA region entrepreneurs. Scale 7 aims to support a creative and artistic ecosystem. The initiative will help Qatari entrepreneurs, local… Read More

Stock Exchange of Art: Monart Seeks to Tokenize Art, Provide Secondary Trading in Tokens

Paris based but regulated in Malta, Monart has launched a blockchain-based marketplace to tokenize art. Monart recently held an opening event in Paris at the offices of Beaux-Arts Magazine. According to a company release, Monart is targeting a market estimated at $67 billion annually. After… Read More

ICONLOOP Applys Blockchain Service Broof to Co-Purchasing Art Service Platform ARTnGUIDE

ICONLOOP, a blockchain enterprise based in South Korea, announced on Tuesday it has apply its blockchain-based certificate issuance service, which is called broof, to ‘ARTnGUIDE’, an online service platform in Korea for co-purchasing works of art operated by Yeolmae Company. ICONLOOP reported it has signed… Read More

Update: Rise Art’s Latest Equity Crowdfunding Round Nears £700,000 During the Final Days on Crowdcube

Rise Art, a UK-based online gallery marketplace, is set to close its latest equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube with nearly £700,000 from more than 330 investors. The latest funding round comes just a little over two years after securing £520,000 in funding through its first Crowdcube… Read More

Overfunding: Rise Art Surpasses £650,000 Funding Target on Crowdcube

With just a little over a week before its latest equity crowdfunding campaign is set to close on Crowdcube, online gallery marketplace Rise Art has successfully secured its initial £650,000 funding target.  The initiative has so far attracted nearly 250 investors.  As previously reported, Rise Art was founded… Read More

Crypto-Tokenized Shares of a Warhol for Sale: Buyer Beware

“The millionaire is changing,” says glamorous London art dealer and Georgian noblewoman Eleesa Dadiani, and that millionaire needs a novel way to invest in art. Even the sub-millionaire can get involved now that Dadiani’s London Gallery has partnered with ‘decentralized’ gallery Maecenas Fine Art. Together… Read More

Codex Blockchain Registry for Arts & Collectibles Receives $5 Million from Pantera Capital

Codex, a Blockchain based decentralized title registry for arts and collectibles, has received a $5 million investment from Pantera Capital, a prominent investment firm targeting blockchain tech. Codex reported that Pantera Capital’s co-Chief Investment Officer, Joey Krug, has joined as an advisor to the company…. Read More

UK Art Exhibition to Sell Works only Paid in Cryptocurrencies

Labeling it a “world first,” sales of art at an forthcoming Mayfair art exhibition will be conducted solely in cryptocurrency. Requiem for the Emblem of Power by British artist Paul Wager will commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War will be holding… Read More

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