Verisart uses blockchain technology to create permanent certificates that can be publicly verified while still protecting the privacy of owners, buyers and sellers.

The data on your certificate is permanently registered on the Bitcoin blockchain. The creation and any subsequent updates to the certificate are timestamped, added to the blockchain and captured in the history of the certificate.

Events like the creation or transfer of a certificate are registered by time-stamping the blockchain ledger.

We also create digital signatures using public keys owned by various parties involved in a certificate (artists, issuers and owners). These prove which artist created a certificate, who issued the certificate, and who owned the certificate during its life.

You can download a permanent archive of your certificate, which can independently verified by checking the blockchain record, and the digital signatures against. These checks can be done without Verisart's assistance.

We provide an open source tool to allow you to verify your certificates. In the event Verisart was no longer available, transferring ownership via the blockchain would no longer be possible.

However, a record of the certificate of authenticity created would be maintained and would continue to be accessible to the creator via an archive file from which they can download a PDF of the certificate. To access the Archive of your data, please see steps below:

If you are the owner of the certificate

  1. Find your Verisart certificate on the dashboard, click the download icon

    https://downloads.intercomcdn.com/i/o/293646762/7f44227037aeafefd49cc5e8/Screenshot+2021-01-29+at+17.52.11.png

  2. Select ‘Archive’ and download the file

  3. Install the Verisart Verify Tool on your command line

    pip3 install verisart-verify

  4. Run the tool:

    verisart-verify verisart-archive-xxx.zip

If you are not the owner of the certificate

  1. You must have access to the certificate ID of the certificate you want to verify. You can find this by looking in the address bar in your browser. e.g.:

    https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/9f1d196b-624f-4d19-bd55-fa4136c7cf20/Screenshot_2021-03-15_at_16.05.41.png

  2. Visit the following link in your browser (replacing the ID as appropriate):

    <https://api.verisart.com/v3/certificate/**bd84b07a-7173-4be8-83a5-08d3b9c6024f**/archive>

    Note that private information will be redacted from certificate archives downloaded in this way. However, you can still verify the public information.

  3. Follow the same instructions as above to run the verify tool

Verify Tool Requirements