Artex
Instead of joining
I’ll begin my story about Artex from one story of one unique event that took place not long ago — in September 2017. Artex acted as one of the main partners of the conference Coinference: Art of blockchain, which took place on September 3, 2017 in St. Petersburg.
Art goes to the blockade! Or blockade goes to art?
Art of blockchain was dedicated to the art of creating unique projects, producing quality products for blocking and bringing individualities to the financial sector.
And in August 2017, the organizers of the famous international photo award 35AWARDS and the creators of the global art platform ARTEX announced the launch of the first international photo contest on blockage theme — Blockchain Global Photo Contest .
The results of this unusual photo contest can be found here.
The works were very interesting and unusual.
The first place was given to Antonio Bernardino from Portugal for the exquisite photo work The city (“City”). You can see it here.
Blocking is designed to save a variety of data to confirm something, whether it is supplying quality products or making payments. Therefore, for me, there is nothing unexpected about the appearance of a platform, which I will discuss below.
About Artex
“ Artex is a platform that will form a new history of art and luxury items both for the market with digital source images, and for material, cultural and historical values.” — says the White Paper project Artex .
According to the plans of the developers and developers of the platform, Artex will unite around all the key persons of the art market: dealers, galleries, art critics, exhibition organizers, photographers, collectors and investors.
Relevance and perspective of the project
The Artex platform will be aimed at two key markets: the art market and the Art photo market
Over the last decade, the art market has grown by 212%, and the market of contemporary art (contemporary art) has grown by 14 times. The volume of the market in 2016: $ 45 billion.
Separately, we should mention the photo market. Photography is becoming more popular, the market volume of Art Photography has reached: $ 1.5 billion.
Half of transactions with art objects are in the “gray” zone — beyond any control, which creates risks for the acquisition of a particular work.
Artex is designed to solve the existing problems of the art market:
- create a unified open history of transactions and the origin of works of art,
- create a simple mechanism for verifying the authenticity of the subject of art,
- create a unified register of rights holders for art objects and a mechanism for safe transactions,
- protect copyrights of photographers,
- provide an opportunity to create a confirmed limited edition of digital works of art,
- create protection against illegal replication of digital copies of photographs,
- to provide opportunities to determine the authorship of digital images.
All the above features are implemented using blocking technology.
For example, with the help of the ARTEX project it is possible to protect the photographic work: information about the author, the work itself, the characteristics of its physical copy will be included in the block, which means that the photo will receive a mechanism for protection from replication and the status of a unique work of art.
The Artex platform initially includes several services:
• Limited digital photo printing service;
• service for authenticity verification and sales of tangible art and luxury items.
Project Tokens
According to White Paper , there will be three tokens in the project:
- Art-token — the main token in the system, is a payment instrument. This token can be purchased tomorrow during the first Token pre-sale.
- Phototoken is a photo token, which gives the right to print a photo in a confirmed laboratory.
- Token paintings — a token that confirms ownership of the picture.
About Pre-sale
Project Token: Art Token (Art Token)
Dana start: tomorrow — 10/10/2017
Tokens on Pre-sale are sold at a price fixed in US dollars: 1 $ = 13 Art-token
Completion: Warning! During Token Pre-sale is limited to the maximum collected amount of $ 500,000, upon which the release of tokens ceases. The rest of the tokens will be sold at a different price during Token sale (the main stage of crowdsale).
Terms of the beginning of the main stage (Token sale) — will be known later
Terms of completion of the main stage (Token sale) — collection of ETH, equivalent to $ 15 million
ICO website: https://artex.global/en
My opinion
For a long time I expected, interesting and very useful idea of using blockade. Judging by the project team (Valery Kochergin — creator of 35photo.ru, 35AWARDS photo awards and co-owner of 1photo.tv, Vladimir Povshenko is the owner of Russian Photo magazine, creator of the Russian Photo Club), the project is waiting for success, because the art industry is very specific and in order to enter it is necessary not so much an idea as an experience. I wish success to the team!
Project links
ICO website: https://artex.global/en
View the project platform website: https://mvp.artex.global/
Platform on github.com
White Paper Project
Twitter of the project
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