Leading Auction House Christie’s To Integrate Blockchain For Recording Art Sales

London-based Christie’s, one of the most seasoned and most noted art auction houses on the planet, is swinging to blockchain tech to safely store deals and provenance information.

The firm, which has a history going back to 1766, declared in an official statement Thursday that it is teaming up with blockchain-powered digital art registry Artory to pilot the encoded account of sale exchanges.

The test case program will enroll Christie’s forthcoming harvest time offer of works of art from the Barney A. Ebsworth Collection, a secretly held accumulation of twentieth-century Modernist American art, or, in other words, acquire $300 million altogether.

Artory’s blockchain platform will store information from every deal, including the item’s title, description, final price, and date. The startup will likewise give a digital authentication of the exchange.

Christie’s will at that point issue every purchaser an enlistment card to get to the encoded data about their acquired work of art.

Richard Entrup, boss data officer at Christie’s stated:

“Our pilot collaboration with Artory is a first among the major global auction houses, and reflects growing interest within our industry to explore the benefits of secure digital registry via blockchain technology.”

Artory said in a blog entry that its blockchain library offers a “secure digital record of transactions, with a goal of providing greater confidence in an artwork’s ongoing provenance and greater efficiency in its eventual resale.”

Christie’s offers around 350 sell-offs every year and dealt with offers of $4 billion in the first half of 2018, as indicated by the released.

Blockchain innovation is picking up force over the art industry. A month ago, Andy Warhol’s 14 Small Electric Chairs (1980) painting, was tokenized and sold on a blockchain utilizing an ethereum savvy contract.