The first open protocol for verifying, archiving, and attributing street art on-chain. Every wall has a story. We make sure it's never erased.
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Foundation, concept validation, and core team assembly.
Core verification algorithm and metadata schema design.
Mobile app beta, AI tagging engine, and early adopter onboarding.
On-chain verification layer, artist attribution, and dispute resolution.
Public archive launch, API access, and partner integrations.
Artist royalty protocol, collector marketplace, and DAO governance.
Municipal partnerships, preservation mandates, and cultural institutions.
Street art is not vandalism. It is the city talking to itself.
— THE ARTPROOF MANIFESTO, §1Every painted wall is a timestamp. Every timestamp deserves to survive.
— THE ARTPROOF MANIFESTO, §2We don't erase history. We proof it.
— THE ARTPROOF MANIFESTO, §3Street art is one of the most significant art movements of the last century, yet it remains one of the most poorly documented. An estimated 97% of street art is painted over, destroyed, or deteriorated within five years of creation — and with it, all record of the artist, the context, and the cultural moment it represented.
Existing documentation tools — social media, photography archives, academic databases — are fragmented, unverified, and inaccessible. Artists have no reliable way to claim their work. Collectors have no way to verify authenticity. Cities have no way to build coherent cultural records.
ArtProof exists to close this gap. We are not a social media platform. We are not a gallery. We are infrastructure for the permanent, verifiable documentation of public art.
The ArtProof Protocol (APP) is an open standard for capturing, encoding, and storing verifiable records of street art. It operates in three layers: the Capture Layer, the Verification Layer, and the Archive Layer.
Every submission begins with a Capture Event — a structured data packet containing imagery, GPS coordinates, timestamp, device signature, and optional artist declaration. Capture Events are cryptographically signed at point of creation to prevent tampering.
The AP-META schema is compatible with existing cultural heritage standards including Dublin Core, LIDO, and IIIF manifests.
Verification is the core innovation of ArtProof. We combine AI-driven analysis with community-based consensus to produce a confidence score for every submitted artwork.
Our computer vision model is trained on a corpus of 2.4 million verified street art images spanning 140 cities. It performs style clustering, artist fingerprint matching, duplicate detection, surface classification, and cultural context tagging.
This hybrid approach ensures AI efficiency is balanced by human judgment — particularly important for anonymous or pseudonymous artists where AI fingerprinting alone is insufficient.
The PROOF token is the economic backbone of the ArtProof ecosystem. It is a utility token designed to incentivize accurate documentation and fair attribution — not speculation.
Total supply is capped at 100,000,000 PROOF. Emission schedule follows a 4-year halving cycle aligned with network growth milestones.
ArtProof is governed by the ArtProof DAO — in which PROOF token holders collectively make decisions about protocol development, fee structures, grant allocations, and partnership approvals.
ArtProof transitions from core team governance to full DAO governance over 24 months. Phase 1 (0-12 months): Core team retains veto rights. Phase 2 (12-24 months): Graduated power transfer. Phase 3 (24+ months): Full DAO autonomy.
ArtProof was founded in 2025 by a collective of street artists, technologists, and cultural archivists who shared one conviction: the most vital art of our time was disappearing without a trace.
We spent 18 months in the field — documenting walls in Jakarta, São Paulo, Berlin, and Detroit — before writing a single line of code. The protocol we built emerged directly from that fieldwork.
We are not a tech company that discovered art. We are an art community that built technology out of necessity.
We partner with cultural institutions, city governments, galleries, tech platforms, and brands that share our commitment to preserving urban art. Partnership is not sponsorship — it is active co-stewardship of public culture.
Tell us about your organization. Our partnerships team responds within 5 business days.
Some pieces we're documenting carry significant political weight — protest art, anti-government murals. What's our responsibility as an archive? Do we add context, or stay neutral?
I've been thinking about pieces that incorporate sound or light. The current schema only covers visual media. Here's a draft extension spec — looking for community feedback before the governance vote.
Our Southeast Asia team just wrapped the biggest single documentation sprint in ArtProof history. Posting highlights from across the city — some of these walls have already been painted over.
Getting feedback that the 72-hour dispute window is creating problems for validators in different timezones. Exploring options: longer windows, async voting, or regional council review.