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Authentify Art's '8 A's of Art' is a framework for authenticating and valuing artwork, organized into eight categories. Four qualitative categories — Attribution, Acquisitions, Archives, Appearances — tell an artwork's story: who made it, who's owned it, what's been written, where it's shown. Four quantitative categories — Authenticity, Agreements, Assessment, Activity — supply the evidence: scientific analysis, legal/financial records, condition reports, and logistics.

The art market has borrowed a word from the technology sector — infrastructure — and applied it to things that are not infrastructure. Marketplaces, recommendation engines, and editorial platforms that share a data layer are useful commercial tools. They are not the substrate the market is missing. The fundamental unsolved problem is this: most artworks in the world do not have a verified, continuous, tamper-evident connection between the physical object and its digital recor