Patented authentication. Automated compliance. Audit-ready reports — built for insurers, banks, galleries and museums who need proof, not promises.
Built for Your Industry
Whether you need to verify authenticity, prove compliance, or protect a legacy — MIRAS is built for the way you work.
Quantify risk before you underwrite. Verify authenticity, flag provenance gaps, and generate audit-ready reports — all in one platform.
See how it works →Automated AML/KYC on every artwork and counterparty. Compliance reports ready for regulators and internal audit. Minutes, not months.
See how it works →Biometric-level authentication for every work. Provenance tracked with wartime flags, automated gap analysis, and verification open to anyone.
See how it works →Your art is born with a unique, unforgeable identity. Visual DNA registered at creation. Provenance starts from you and follows the work forever.
See how it works →Two patents. 35 claims. The only platform that combines physical authentication and AML compliance in one workflow. Request a pilot →
The Problem
Provenance records are scattered across galleries, auction houses, and private archives. Paper certificates can be forged. No system proves that a document belongs to this specific physical object. And with the EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (2024/1624) now requiring art dealers to perform risk-based due diligence, the industry has zero computational tools designed for art market compliance.
Bloomberg exists for finance. DUNS for companies. Nothing exists for art at the same level of institutional rigour.
The Solution
A permanent, blockchain-anchored digital identity and compliance record for every artwork. Created by credentialed curators. Verified by cryptographic proof. Scored for AML risk.
How It Works
A credentialed gallery or museum creates the artwork record with provenance chain, documentation, and metadata.
Our patented computer vision engine scans the artwork and generates an irreplicable photographic fingerprint using pHash, DINOv2, and Gabor texture analysis.
Every transaction is scored by our patented 3-engine system — Client, Artwork, Transaction — with 26 risk variables and dynamic weight adjustment. Risk band assigned: Green, Yellow, Orange, or Red.
Passport hash and AML audit trail anchored on dual-layer blockchain — private for confidential records, public for immutable proof.
The artwork receives its permanent digital identity with authentication status, compliance clearance, and AML risk score.
The first system to cryptographically prove that a digital record belongs to this specific physical artwork.
Not a copy. Not a photograph. This object.
Proof of Physical Existence™ + Proof of Compliance™ — a five-layer patented architecture that binds the physical artwork to its digital identity and its compliance record.
New & Legacy Artworks
Most art-tech platforms only handle newly created works. MIRAS is built for the real market — where the majority of transactions involve artworks with decades or centuries of history.
For artworks leaving the studio for the first time. The artist or gallery registers the work with full certainty — provenance starts clean.
Metadata, dimensions, medium, artist identity.
Patented fingerprint from the artwork’s physical surface.
Cryptographic tag physically attached to the work.
First transaction scored by the 3-engine system.
Blockchain-anchored digital identity — permanent.
For artworks with existing history. MIRAS automates provenance research, identifies gaps, and scores what can be verified — with full transparency about what cannot.
Existing certificates, invoices, exhibition history, prior ownership records.
MIRAS queries 10+ external databases via API — stolen-art registries (ALR, Interpol), sanctions lists (OFAC, EU, UN), auction records, cultural heritage registers.
Provenance Depth Score computed. Temporal gaps identified. Wartime period (1933–1945) flagged automatically. Jurisdiction risk assessed.
Human-in-the-loop validation. Physical archives, oral history, and material analysis remain human tasks — MIRAS is transparent about these boundaries.
Same patented authentication layers as new artworks.
Includes documented chain, identified gaps, and an honest completeness score.
10+ automated data sources including Art Loss Register, OFAC SDN, EU Sanctions, UN Consolidated List, Interpol Stolen Works, OpenSanctions, PEP databases, corporate registries, and national cultural heritage registers. Semi-automated and human-only sources are clearly documented for each artwork.
Verify Any Artwork
Anyone — a buyer, a gallery visitor, a customs officer — can verify an artwork registered on MIRAS by simply taking a photograph. No NFC reader required. No special equipment. Just a smartphone camera.
Our patented Visual DNA™ engine compares the new photograph against the stored fingerprint using three independent algorithms. If the artwork is genuine and registered, you get a match in under two seconds.
Any angle, any lighting. The algorithms are robust to environmental variation.
DINOv2 + pHash + Gabor texture analysis. Three layers, one verdict.
Match confidence, passport ID, provenance summary, and AML status — all in seconds.
A composite photographic fingerprint that is unique to each physical artwork. Works today, works in fifty years — no hardware dependency.
The Market Today
Today the market is fragmented: authentication-only platforms cannot enforce compliance. AML-only solutions ignore the physical artwork. Due-diligence networks are checklist software without computational risk scoring or physical-layer authentication. MIRAS is the only system that integrates all three.
✓ = full coverage · ~ = partial / manual · × = not offered. Categories based on public information about existing art-market authentication, AML and due-diligence vendors as of May 2026.
The Differentiator
Five layers of authentication and compliance that bind a physical artwork to its digital identity and its compliance record. Protected by 35 patent claims.
Patented computer vision pipeline combining perceptual hashing (pHash), DINOv2 vision transformers, and Gabor texture analysis. Generates a unique, non-reversible fingerprint from the artwork’s surface. Six-shot capture via standard smartphone.
NXP NTAG 424 DNA chip with AES-128 encryption and dynamic SUN/CMAC authentication. Every scan generates a unique, non-replayable message. Tamper-evident adhesive with irreversible self-destruction. Bidirectional cryptographic binding to Visual DNA.
Private permissioned ledger (Hyperledger Fabric) for confidential records with RBAC. Public blockchain anchoring (Polygon ERC-721) for third-party-verifiable proof. Resolves GDPR vs. immutability tension.
KYC identity verification, Art Loss Register integration, UNESCO/UNIDROIT cultural property checks, GDPR compliance management, and structured compliance reporting.
The industry’s first computational AML risk model for art transactions. Three scoring engines (Client, Artwork, Transaction) analyse 26 risk variables with 10 contextual modifiers. Produces a composite score (0–100) with four risk bands. Full audit trail on blockchain.
Optional add-on: Spectral certification by accredited labs available on request.
Distinctive Marks
Each component of the MIRAS ecosystem carries its own distinctive identity, unified by a shared visual language of institutional trust.
The master brand. The institutional-grade digital registry for artworks.
The permanent digital identity issued to every certified artwork.
The patented computer vision engine that creates a unique photographic fingerprint. Patent #1.
The patented 3-engine compliance system with 26 variables and dynamic weight adjustment. Patent #2.
The Team
An interdisciplinary team spanning entrepreneurship, blockchain architecture, institutional banking, art markets, and regulatory law.
Founder & CEO of Hofburg Group (2007–present). Multi-sector entrepreneur spanning construction, technology, sustainability, and the arts, with international exits including Let’s Pizza, Greenrail, and Hypertym. Now applying that builder’s mindset to digital infrastructure. Conceptualized MIRAS from direct observation of regulatory gaps in art finance. Leads strategy, institutional partnerships, and investor relations.
MSc Applied Economics, Copenhagen Business School. Co-founded Revy, applying financial analysis and securing EU structural funds. Professional artist. Represents the collector and creator class driving MIRAS adoption — the art market of tomorrow.
MSc Applied Economics, Copenhagen Business School. Co-founded Revy, leading financial modelling and structural funding strategy. Co-creator of the original MIRAS concept. Responsible for financial modelling, growth strategy, and go-to-market planning.
Serial entrepreneur with two decades building deep-tech B2B companies from spinoff to global scale. Founded Omnisens SA (fibre-optic sensing infrastructure) before its acquisition and led European expansion at Picarro Inc. With his engineering background Andrei brings the rare combination of hands-on technical depth and multi-company entrepreneurial execution applied to turning complex technology into defensible, scalable business models. At MIRAS, he channels that experience into scaling a deep-tech platform from pilot to industry standard.
Economist, IT Architect & Blockchain Developer with over 15 years at the intersection of distributed systems and financial infrastructure. Designed the full MIRAS technical stack: dual-layer blockchain anchoring, Data Vault architecture, Visual DNA processing pipeline, and institutional API layer. Previously built enterprise solutions for regulated industries. Combines economic rigour with deep technical execution.
Founder of Savino & Partners and now Axevera, with 40 years of experience in growth-stage finance, investor reporting, and capital allocation. Senior art market professional with an extensive institutional gallery and collector network across Europe. Brings deep financial discipline and art-world credibility to MIRAS.
International legal counsel specialising in cross-border compliance, corporate governance, and regulatory frameworks. Ensures MIRAS’s adherence to AML/KYC requirements and data protection standards across jurisdictions.
Based in Doha. CEO of Riva Contracting with 20+ years of cross-cultural business leadership across Europe and the Gulf. Founded “Art for Peace” (Qatar, 2025), bridging contemporary art with diplomatic soft power. Maintains deep relationships with sovereign wealth funds, royal family offices, and institutional collectors across the GCC. Strategic gateway for MIRAS’s expansion into Gulf art finance, museum digitisation programs, and sovereign wealth initiatives.
Partner, Rapini & Seyssel Studio Legale Associato, Milan. Expert in commercial, regulatory, and compliance law across EU jurisdictions. Advises on AML frameworks, GDPR, IP structure, and data partnerships.
Vice-President, MART — Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. Director, Istituto di Arte di Rovereto since 1984. Nationally and internationally recognised artist.
Expert in intellectual property and copyright law. Advises on artist rights frameworks, digital provenance legal architecture, and IP litigation protecting blockchain-anchored ownership records.
Founder & Principal of Fedan SA, a Swiss privately held company with diversified investment interests. Extensive cross-border network spanning institutional investors, family offices, and strategic partners.
MIoD — Member of the Institute of Directors (UK). Founder & Chairman, Plus Capital Ltd. 20+ years as investment banker in London. Live network in private banking, family offices, and art-secured lending.
Seasoned lawyer and entrepreneur with deep expertise in international contract law and an extensive network across global markets.
Under the Hood
A patented computer vision pipeline combining perceptual hashing (pHash), DINOv2 self-supervised vision transformers, and Gabor texture analysis. Generates an irreplicable 1.5KB photographic fingerprint from the artwork’s physical surface. 18 claims protecting the complete authentication chain.
Every passport hash anchored on an enterprise-grade public blockchain. Independent Audit Node verifies every anchor. Any third party can verify integrity without trusting MIRAS.
Military-grade NFC chips with per-scan cryptographic rotation. Tamper-evident circuit. Impossible to clone.
Personal data in encrypted Data Vault. Blockchain stores only hashes. Right to erasure built in from day one.
Machine-readable data in international museum standards. Integrates with museum systems and Bloomberg terminals.
Independent audit node for on-chain verification. SOC 2 Type I certification in Year 1. Penetration tested before launch.
Patented composite risk scoring system with three independent engines: Client (9 variables), Artwork (9 variables), Transaction (8 variables). Dynamic weight adjustment via 10 contextual modifiers with softmax normalisation. Cross-layer anomaly detection integrating authentication data with financial risk indicators. Human-in-the-loop governance compliant with EU AI Act. 17 claims.
Cross-layer anomaly detection framework published on SSRN. The MIRAS research team collaborates with independent researchers and academics in computer vision, blockchain security, and financial compliance.
Our AML scoring framework is grounded in published academic research — bridging the gap between regulatory theory and computational compliance for the art market.
This paper introduces a multi-engine scoring framework purpose-built for anti-money laundering compliance in the art market. The system employs three independent scoring engines — Client (CSE), Artwork (ASE), and Transaction (TSE) — comprising 26 proprietary variables and 10 contextual modifiers. Using softmax-based aggregation, the framework produces composite risk scores that enable art dealers and compliance officers to meet obligations under EU Regulation 2024/1624 (AMLAR) with computational precision rather than subjective judgment.
From the MIRAS Desk
Briefings for compliance officers, gallery directors and art finance professionals navigating the new regulatory landscape across Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom.
The bipartisan S.2400 bill (introduced July 2025) would bring US art dealers under FinCEN oversight for the first time, extending AML, recordkeeping and customer due-diligence obligations. We unpack the small-business carve-out (under USD 50,000 in annual transactions), the implementation timeline, and what a compliant program looks like in practice.
Effective May–June 2026, the UK currency threshold for AMP regulated activity converts from EUR 10,000 to GBP 10,000 — pulling more transactions into the AML perimeter. With 335 HMRC penalty notices issued in H1 of the 2025 reporting period, including a GBP 158,679 fine on a single London gallery, the cost of weak compliance has never been higher.
The new EU AML Regulation moves art market participants from rule-based compliance to risk-based due diligence — but the regulation offers no computational guidance. Our SSRN-published 3-engine framework (CSE/ASE/TSE, 26 variables, 10 contextual modifiers) translates AMLAR’s risk-based requirement into a defensible, auditable scoring methodology.
Frequently Asked
If your question is not answered here, write to info@miras.art.
MIRAS is pre-built for the three regulatory regimes that matter most for cross-border art transactions: EU AMLAR Regulation 2024/1624 and 6AMLD, UK HMRC Art Market Participants regime under MLR 2017, and US Art Market Integrity Act (S.2400) — pending enactment. Our compliance workstation, audit trail and STR generation map to all three.
No. MIRAS.ART is a venture of MARGIN International LLC, a Delaware-registered entity, with two filed Italian patents (UIBM #102026000009442 and #102026000010327). We are not related to MIRA Imaging (miraimaging.com), MIRA Art Fair, or any other entity with a similar name.
If you have been referred to MIRAS.ART, please confirm the URL is www.miras.art and the contact email is info@miras.art.
Today the market is fragmented. Authentication platforms (e.g. NFC + blockchain registries) cannot enforce regulatory compliance. AML / KYC software is designed for finance, not art. Due-diligence networks are checklist tools without computational risk scoring or physical-layer authentication.
MIRAS is the only system that integrates physical-layer authentication (Visual DNA + NFC), blockchain certification and a 26-variable computational AML risk engine in a single institutional stack — protected by two patents and built for cross-border compliance from day one. See the capability matrix.
The MIRAS AML Risk Score is a composite (0–100) produced by three independent scoring engines — Client (CSE, 9 variables), Artwork (ASE, 9 variables) and Transaction (TSE, 8 variables) — combined via softmax aggregation with 10 contextual modifiers (jurisdiction, transaction type, counterparty risk, etc.). Output is classified into four risk bands (Green, Yellow, Orange, Red).
The methodology is documented in our peer-reviewed SSRN working paper and protected by patent #2 (17 claims).
Yes. Art insurers can integrate MIRAS data into two workflows: underwriting (using the AML Risk Score and provenance integrity as pricing inputs) and post-claim verification (using Visual DNA to confirm an object’s identity after damage, theft or fraud claims). API access is available for carriers via a structured JSON-LD endpoint.
MIRAS is GDPR by Architecture. Personal data is held in an encrypted Data Vault separate from the blockchain layer. The blockchain stores only cryptographic hashes — never personal data — resolving the well-known tension between immutability and the right to erasure. Right-to-erasure requests are honoured at the Data Vault level without breaking on-chain integrity.
MIRAS is in active development. Two patents are filed (35 claims total), our SSRN paper is published, and we are currently building our founding network of credentialed Curators (galleries, museums, auction houses) and compliance partners. Institutional buyers can request a pilot to be among the first to deploy the platform.
MIRAS is built to interoperate. We work with scientific authentication laboratories (pigment analysis, spectral imaging) as upstream partners that feed certified attribution data into the MIRAS Passport, with insurance carriers as data consumers, and with dealer networks as distribution channels. To explore a partnership, write to info@miras.art with “Partnership Enquiry” in the subject line.
MIRAS is purpose-built for both new artworks (created and registered from day one) and legacy artworks (existing works with decades or centuries of history). For legacy artworks, our system automates provenance research by querying 10+ external databases via API — including the Art Loss Register, OFAC, EU and UN sanctions lists, Interpol’s Stolen Works database, and national cultural heritage registers.
The system computes a Provenance Depth Score that quantifies how much of an artwork’s ownership history is documented, automatically identifies temporal gaps, and flags sensitive periods (1933–1945). We are transparent about what can be automated and what requires human expertise: physical archives, oral history, and material analysis remain analyst tasks. See our New & Legacy Artworks section for the full workflow.
Yes. Our patented Visual DNA™ technology works as a complete, standalone authentication layer. Anyone can verify a registered artwork by simply photographing it with a smartphone. The system compares the new image against the stored fingerprint using three independent algorithms (DINOv2 vision transformer, perceptual hashing, and Gabor texture analysis), delivering a match result in under two seconds.
When an NFC chip is also present, MIRAS performs dual verification (physical tag + visual fingerprint) for maximum security. But Visual DNA alone provides false positive rates below 0.01% — protected by Patent #1 with 18 claims. See Verify Any Artwork.
Rather than ignoring or hiding gaps in an artwork’s ownership history, MIRAS quantifies them explicitly. Our Provenance Depth Score is calculated as the ratio of documented ownership years to total years since creation. A 1920s painting with verified records from 1925–1960 and 1985–present would show a gap of 25 years (1960–1985), with a corresponding reduction in its depth score.
Gaps during sensitive historical periods (particularly 1933–1945) are flagged with elevated risk indicators. This transparency is precisely what compliance officers, insurers, and regulators need — not false certainty, but an honest, auditable assessment of what is known and what remains unverified.
MIRAS.ART is in active development — with two patents filed and technology published in peer-reviewed research. We are assembling our founding network of credentialed Curators (galleries, museums, auction houses) and institutional compliance partners across the EU, US and UK. Reach out to shape the future of art market compliance.
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