THE FINE ART LEDGER BETA 

FAL is a fine art Register that lets you mint, catalog, and track NFTs of physical and digital artworks. With FAL, you can mint any work of art as an NFT and track, manage and verify the art and the NFT with your mobile phone. FAL is the platform that uses technology to connect the physical or digital art to the NFTs.

Who owns a work and the historical ownership of fine art (or 'provenance') is important for a number of reasons. Establishing legal and benefical ownership enables a buyer to safely purchase art knowing that her seller can transfer ownership of the art to her. Establishing title also provides comfort to lenders using artwork as collateral, and, for insurers, that the insured has an insurable interest. Provenance is important in authenticating art, and determing value in the historical succession of title in the work. From a digital assets, point of view, an authenticated register of ownership is the foundation for establishing the rights of holders of digital assets in the underlying work of fine art.

No. It provides a service for the recording and authentication of fine art information which is provided to it, but that information needs to be true, correct and authentic to begin with. FAL is a software platform which registers works of fine art, stamps information concerning the artwork and its title into the blockchain and maintains a digital catalog record of the artwork for its users, including a real-time, blockchain- authenticated certificate of authenticity for the artwork. Blockchain can be used as a means of authenticating records, but as with any other source of information, it is reliant on the information stamped into the blockchain being true and correct in the first place. Similarly, FAL relies on the information submitted to it being true and correct, and does not conduct any investigation or procedure to verify the truth, completeness or authenticity of the information submitted to it or of any artworks referenced in that information, except that FAL may, but is not required to ask the user submitting the work to confirm certain information if the user's artwork submission appears inconsistent or incomplete on the surface.

No. While FAL is in Beta there is no fee or subscription to sign up or mint artworks. In order to connect the artwork to its NFTs, you do need to buy a FAL NFC Tag. The artwork is lazy minted until the Tag is attached to the artwork. On FAL, you do not have to pay any gas fees to mint your NFTs.

Yes. Minting of physical or digital artwork on FAL is open to anyone who signs up to FAL. Mint a work here. There is no charge to mint a work, and you may mint as many artworks as you like. You do, however, need to buy a FAL NFC Tag to connect your artwork to the NFTs. Until a Tag is attached to the art, the artworks NFTs are lazy minted. FAL, though, is required to approve each request to mint an artwork, and is under no obligation to do so. Once FAL approves an artwork, and it is minted, you will be notified by email.

Go to the Submit Artworks page in your FAL Member Account. If you are not already a FAL Member, you will be asked to sign up. Then simply fill out the 'Submit Work' form, check the required boxes, and click submit once. If you haven't yet purchased a FAL NFT Tag for the work, simply select "Register without a Tag" when you get to the Serial Number field in the form. You can always buy FAL NFC Tags later and tag them to artworks previously submitted and approved. It may take a few seconds to submit the work, and until you see the confirmation of submission on the page. So hang tight, and you should be on your way!

Yes, you may, and FAL is designed to mint physical works of art or what we call 'Physical NFTs'. Our slogan is 'NFT All Your Art', and we are serious about that. For us NFTs are not just about digital art. We see NFTs as ownership records in underlying assets, whether physical or digital. So, minting all of your art with FAL is easy! For digital works we require that you submit to FAL the original high-resolution image and agree not to authenticate or tokenize the work outside of FAL.

Yes, it does! The FAL Register is powered by Polygon, and we employ an ERC 1155 smart contract to mint FAL NFTs. This is because each work, whether physical or digital, minted on FAL receives 100 Non-Fungible Tokens which we call Art Title Tokens (ATT).™ ATT's are mapped to each artwork and minting, transfers and other polygon transactions on FAL are free, and you do not have to pay any gas fees. ATT, as its name suggests, are representative of each user's title in his physical or digital work registered on FAL. They're FAL's NFTs!

FAL holds the ATT's and each ATT is mapped to your artwork and you as the holder on FAL. So , you don't need a wallet to hold your NFTs and you don't pay gas fees. FAL pays all gas fees on the FAL Register. We have designed it this way to make it easier for you to mint, manage, and track your artworks and the NFTs in them. FAL is an art title register, not a trading platform. ATT's represent the FAL registered owner's title in the work. So, you can buy and sell your artwork off-FAL, and record transfer of registered title in the work on FAL. Much the same as a land registry does not concern itself with the terms of the purchase or sale, or any funds changing hands, so too does FAL as a title register not concern itself with the buying and selling of works of art and does not handle transmission of funds in relation thereto Subject to certain considerations, FAL intends to release a marketplace on which both physical and digital NFT's for artworks registered on FAL may be bought and sold. Get on the wait list for early access to the FAL Marketplace here.

ATT's, representative of a FAL registered owner's title in a work, may be transferred using FAL's transfer feature. This requires the Transferee's email and physical address, and the transfer request is submitted to FAL for approval. On approval, the transferee is invited to join FAL, if not already a FAL Member, and receives her own FAL account in which the transferred work is cataloged. So your digital catalog for the artwork, and all its information are transferred with the NFTs to your transferee, and all are digitally catalogued and accessibly by your transferee in her very own confidential FAL account.

Yes, you can. Simply transfer less than 100 ATT's in the work to be registered together with your transferee(s) as registered owner on FAL. The Certificate of Authenticity for the work will reflect your co-ownership, together with the percentages of that ownership.

By tagging the art with a proprietary FAL NFC Tag! Yes, it is that simple Once tagged, the link ties the NFT details with the art asset details. And of course, we employ some serious IPFS metadata for each artwork that digitally connects the artwork to the NFT. Once your artwork is tagged, you can easily check out its NFTs metadata as the IPFS link is displayed on your FAL blockchain-authenticated and real-time Certificate of Authenticity for the work. NFC tags are activated by a tap with your mobile phone. You can also use FAL's image recognition to verify the artwork and its NFT details, on your desktop or mobile phone, here. And you can buy FAL NFC Tags, here.

FAL Mobile Fine Art Experiences are the way FAL connects the digital record of an artwork on FAL with the underlying artwork to which it relates. Mobile Fine Art Experiences are viewed on your mobile phone when you connect with the artwork, whether through tapping an NFC Tag tagged to the work or through FAL's image recognition. Mobile Fine Art Experiences display the work's blockchain authenticated**, real-time Certificate of Authenticity, and image for the work and its and the artist's details. They can also contain other content that the owner of the work adds to the Mobile Fine Art Experience for the work.

FAL allows each owner or co-owner of a work, whether digital or physical, to add rich content to a Mobile Fine Art Experience for that work. This includes videos, images, links, documents, Instagram posts, documents and buttons. When connected through a Mobile Fine Art Experience, the added content is displayed on the work viewer's mobile phone.

Yes. You may buy FAL Mobile Fine Art Experiences here. On purchase, the Serial Number for each Mobile Fine Art Experience is immediately added to your FAL Member Account and available to select and use in the Serial Number field of the Submit Works page of your FAL Member Account. So, you can register your works, and add Mobile Fine Art Experiences to your works even before you receive your FAL NFC Tags, and get the full Mobile Fine Art Experience with a work using FAL image recognition.

Yes. You may buy FAL Mobile Fine Art Experiences here. On purchase, the Serial Number for each Mobile Fine Art Experience is immediately added to your FAL Member Account and available to select and use in the Serial Number field of the Submit Works page of your FAL Member Account. So, you can register your works, and add Mobile Fine Art Experiences to your works even before you receive your FAL NFC Tags, and get the full Mobile Fine Art Experience with a work using FAL image recognition.

FAL may send follow up questions for clarification to the FAL Member who has submitted the work. Any FAL review of a submitted work is limited to corrections of superficial or readily apparent errors or inconsistencies in the information submitted on the artwork, and it is, in any event, not obligated to correct those before approving. FAL does not conduct any investigation into title or authenticity, veracity or completeness of the infomation submitted to it and does not verify that the work actually exists, is what it purports to be or that it is in any person's possession or control.

You will still have access to your FAL catalog of works, and you may upload content to each registered work in your catalog, but you wotn be able to connect your physical or digtal art with your catalog entry for that work. To get the full FAL experience, you will need to purchase a Mobile Fine Art Experience for each work.

All works, whether digital or physical, minted on the FAL Register are displayed in your 'My Works' catalog page of your confidential and private FAL Member's Account.

Go to your My Works catalog page in your FAL Member's Account, select the work and click on the Work's image. This takes you to the Work Detail page, and simply click on the Certiifcate of Authenticity link on that page. To access the Certificate of Authenticity in a Mobile Fine Art Experience, simply tap on or near the FAL NFC Tag near the work or use FAL image recogntion to identify the work and click on the matched image. Then, once you are in the Mobile Fine Art Experience on your mobile phone, click on 'View Ceritifcate of Authenticity'.

Go to your My Works catalog page in your FAL Member's Account, select the work and click on the Work's image. This takes you to the Work Detail page, where you can add videos, images, links and other content.

Yes you can. Simply go to the work in your My Works catalog page of your FAL Member Account, and toggle the 'Restrict' button to on. Ensure that 'Restrict' is on for each artwork in your catalog. This is designed to block access to the Certificate of Authenticity, including the name and address of the FAL registered title holder(s) contained in it, to anyone not signed into your FAL Member Account who taps a FAL NFC Tag for the work or who recognizes the work using FAL Art Recognition.™ It is very important to ensure your permissions are properly set, as FAL's Art recognition may pull the image if it finds a reasonably high similarity between the image its captures and your image, even if the FAL user is physically remote from your work.

Yes you can. Simply go to the work in your My Works catalog page of your FAL Member Account, and click on the selected work's image. This will take you to the work's detail page, where you can restrict any category of content from public display by moving the toggle for that category to the right. This is designed to block access to that category of content (for example, 'Documents'), to anyone not signed into your FAL Member Account who taps a FAL NFC Tag for the work or who recognizes the work using FAL Art Recognition.™ It is very important to ensure your permissions are properly set, as FAL's Art Recognition may pull the image if it finds a reasonably high similarity between the image its captures and your image, even if the FAL user is physically remote from your work.