PARIS, Nov. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- According
to thierry Ehrmann, Founder of Artprice and CEO of
Artmarket: "After a period of very cautious observation,
cryptocurrencies are now showing positive signals. Artprice by
Artmarket now considers the circumstances favorable to
integrate – as of today – the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin
and Ethereum across the entirety of its famous Standardized
Marketplace®, created in 2005. These cryptocurrencies are now
competing with major international currencies and it is
only natural that Artprice should also add Art NFTs
to its Marketplace, in a new category/medium, giving them a
legitimate place in Art Market History."
Our decision to quote cryptocurrency prices on our
Standardized Marketplace® comes after a long and careful
observation of an increase in consultation of auction results in
Bitcoin and Ethereum across all of Artprice's databases
since their effective integration into our system in September
2022.
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These two main cryptocurrencies (ETH and BTC) account
for more than 82% of the total value of the approximately
21,000 currently existing cryptocurrencies (excluding
stablecoins).
By analyzing its hundreds of millions of connection logs,
Artprice has observed – over 14 months – a regular increase in
consultations of the Bitcoin and Ethereum prices in its databanks,
which are now, in statistical terms, close to the consultations
of the major international reference currencies such as the
dollar, the euro, sterling or the yen.
This evolution at Artprice reflects the growing place of
cryptocurrencies in the mentalities and habits of art professionals
as well as among collectors and art enthusiasts.
In view of these positive and indisputable statistics
over 14 months, Artprice by Artmarket has made the
historic decision to integrate Bitcoin and Ethereum today into its
Standardized Marketplace® which presents more than 75,000 works of
art from around the world on a daily basis. These works are
bought and sold by Artprice's 7.2 million customers and members,
generating an annual turnover estimated at several hundred
million euros. The success of this platform reflects
the confidence, built over more than 18 years, between
its buyers and sellers.
The inclusion of Art NFTs in Artprice by Artmarket's
Standardized Marketplace®, along with their quotation in Bitcoin
and Ethereum (next to the major international currencies), will
undoubtedly make a significant contribution to the overall
legitimization of this new medium on the art market.
Artprice by Artmarket's Standardized Marketplace® will
immediately have an undeniable competitive advantage because the
main existing NFT platforms have still not resolved a number
of fundamental issues due to lack of time, of financial means, but
also, and above all, due to their incapacity to manage and
administrate all the related copyright issues.
Indeed, OpenSea, the leading NFT platform, itself declares that
80% of the primary issues of Art NFTs are likely to
impact third-party intellectual property rights. Faced with
this observation, Opensea has announced it is considering solutions
to counter this problem and thereby protect sellers and
buyers. This can only lead to the certification of the primary
issue market by Artprice.
It is precisely in the primary issue of Art NFTs that Artprice
by Artmarket can generate excellent turnover (and
profits) already up 75% in Q3 2023.
Bearing in mind all the underlying parameters and data required,
Artprice is the only organization on the global art market to
be able to truly respond to the certification of primary emissions
of Art NFTs in an environment of cryptocurrencies and
major international currencies.
This capacity to certify the primary emissions of Art NFTs is
based on the fact that Artprice by Artmarket has been the
Global Leader in Art Market Information for more than 25 years
and is the creator and owner of its globally recognized
databases. It also has the world's largest documentary collection
of art market notes, manuscripts, codices, and annotated sales
catalogs from 1700 to the present day which act as guarantee of the
authenticity and historical veracity of its databases.
Artprice by Artmarket's position as Global Leader in Art
Market Information – with its Standardized Marketplace®
created in 2005 – provides a perfectly logical and absolutely
essential guarantee recognized throughout the art market. This
is because for the last 25 years, we have been practicing exactly
what is needed for the online sale of art NFTs, namely the initial
certification of the artist followed by the meticulous analysis of
his/her biography and of all the original supporting documents
concerning the artist, which subsequently remain in Artprice's
archives. It is this practice that inspires the market's confidence
and recognition.
More precisely, we cannot allow the offer of an artwork or of an
art NFT to be posted online without validation of the identity of
the artist (especially in crypto art), and of the professional
seller, via a very strict and draconian control procedure. In the
context of the sale of NFTs, this is all the more important as
there is a certain laxity at this level, which has led to numerous
problems on other sites.
The added value of Artprice by Artmarket is quite
simply its knowledge of the artists, either through
their previous auction results or through their emerging
notoriety. In addition, an Artprice Intranet messaging system is
made available to buyers and sellers, so that they can agree on
their transaction in a confidential and consensual manner.
The September 2022
quotation of auction results in cryptocurrencies was
the first stone in the edifice, and it was introduced after
considerable reflection and research. Artprice by
Artmarket had already taken a first step by quoting 8,828,384
art auction results in Bitcoin, dating back to 1 February
2011 (with 1 Bitcoin at $0.7, £0.434031, and €0.50707) and
5,814,866 art auction results in Ethereum, dating back to
7 August 2015 (with 1 Ethereum
at $3, £1.93626 and €2.735523).
The addition of the two reference cryptocurrencies to the
historical currencies of the 20th century (dollar, euro, Sterling,
yen) in Artprice's databases gave our clients the necessary
perspective to understand the development of cryptocurrencies
over more than a decade vis-à-vis the world's major
non-cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies have brought new collectors and art
enthusiasts, often younger than their non-crypto peers. Not
averse to speculation and risk, they have no intention of
abandoning the crypto-universe of Web 3.0. These new
customers, who frequently requested data from Artprice by
Artmarket, constantly requested the addition of ETH and BTC to all
Artprice databases and to its Standardized Marketplace®.
For this reason, Artprice is currently finalizing the Metaverse
of its head office located in the heart of its illustrious
L'Organe, Museum of Contemporary Art which manages the
Demeure du Chaos / Abode of Chaos (dixit The New York Times). To create the Metaverse of this
edifice with its highly singular architecture (that falls into the
category "total work of art") created by thierry Ehrmann (who
is also a visual artist), the European group TT Géoomètres Experts
with its 3D Lab and Groupe Serveur (Artprice's parent company)
carried out the complete digitization of the 6,300 artworks
integrated into the buildings, offices, outbuildings and
surrounding walls, covering a surface area of over 7,555 m²,
leading to the creation of a digital asset of 12
terra-bytes. This work was conducted from 2018 to 2023. For more
information see:
https://ftp1.serveur.com/abodeofchaos_singular_architecture.pdf
All the necessary investments have already been fully covered by
Groupe Serveur.
The future of Artprice by Artmarket is the meeting point
between Web 3.0. and Artprice's proprietary artificial
intelligence, Intuitive Artmarket ® AI.
The Artprice Metaverse, accessible in AR (augmented reality)
and/or VR (virtual reality), currently being finalized, has
been designed to make people forget rigid IT with Web 2.0, a
veritable obstacle to creation. It will allow crypto-universe
enthusiasts to live their experiences to the full, in particular
through the release announced at WWDC 2023 of Apple's Vision Pro,
the perfect symbiosis of AR and VR, to which is added among others
the Meta Quest 3, the HoloLens 2 from Microsoft, the VR DELL
VRP100, the VRX from Lenovo, the Gear VR R322 from Samsung, the
Reverb G2 from HP, all this to join Web 3.0.
During the period of cautious observation of cryptocurrencies
conducted by Artprice by Artmarket, lots of more or less
unpredictable events have destabilized the global economy and
particularly, cryptocurrencies.
After reaching historic highs on 10
November 2021 (at $68,989 for
Bitcoin and $4,866 for Ethereum),
cryptocurrencies then began a steady decline to reach lows at
$15,480 on 21
November 2022 for Bitcoin and $880 for Ethereum on 18
June 2022.
The year 2022 and a large part of 2023 were therefore the final
test for cryptocurrencies, with a dizzying descent, a drastic purge
of outsiders, a series of memorable trials (fraudulent bankruptcy
of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX), the
introduction of drastic regulations, all against the backdrop
of a very difficult economic, financial and geopolitical
context, with galloping inflation, stagnation in world trade and a
meteoric rise in interest rates.
However, this 'trial by fire' has ultimately made it
possible to establish cryptocurrencies in the international
monetary system and in its history, and the world of finance
is well aware of the resilience of leading cryptocurrencies to
crises. Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase are now both offering
Bitcoin funds to their clients.
Moreover, despite the economic context described above, nothing
has stopped a number of planned developments such as the
transition to "The Merge" on 15 September
2022 for the complete 'decarbonization' of the Ethereum
2.0 Blockchain in the context of the global energy crisis.
Indeed, according to its founder, Vitalik
Buterin, thanks to "The Merge", after 7 years of development
and successful beta tests, the electricity consumption of the ETH
Blockchain has been reduced by over 99.95% by switching from "Proof
of Work" (PoW) to "Proof of Stake" (PoS) (Source Ethereum
Foundation).
In a global context where concerns about global warming
have reached a fever pitch, this is indeed a vital development, and
it explains, among other things, the Central Bank of Norway's decision to build the Norwegian MNBC
(Central Bank Digital Currency) on Ethereum and that of Bank
of America to qualify Ethereum as a virtuous investment,
calling it a "green giant".
However, it is BlackRock's announcement, the world's
biggest asset manager, which seems to definitively signal the
re-awakening of cryptocurrencies and the end of the bear
market. After submitting a first Bitcoin spot ETF (Exchange
Traded Fund) file with the SEC (Securities and Exchange
Commission), BlackRock filed a second one on Thursday, 9 November 2023 for an Ethereum spot ETF called
iShares Ethereum Trust. This will allow retail investors to gain
exposure to the second-largest cryptocurrency by market
capitalization without having to directly hold the asset.
Price projections are also currently very positive. The consensus
of analysts from major American banks is very favorable to
cryptocurrencies, in particular Bitcoin and Ethereum, with targets
at significantly higher than current prices.
thierry Ehrmann: "We were patiently waiting for the right
moment to launch this key deployment in the
history of Artprice by Artmarket in the best conditions
for both the art market and for cryptocurrencies. It is now time
for us to take the step of deploying our authoritative Standardized
Marketplace® and opening it to the world of cryptocurrencies and
NFTs, by entering Web 3.0. which is quite simply the immediate
future of the Internet. This step would not have been
possible without the knowledge and experience of Artprice, which
has been the Global Leader in Art Market Information for more
than 25 years.
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accumulation, management and exploitation of historical and current
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