Paper certificates can be forged. Expert opinions can be challenged. MIRAS gives every artwork a digital visual fingerprint — one component of a verifiable digital identity, backed by documented provenance and compliance rather than a paper trail.
The Problem
Expert authentication costs €1,500–15,000 per artwork and takes weeks. For a gallery managing hundreds of works, the cost is prohibitive. And the result is a subjective opinion, not a verifiable, documented record.
Wartime-period ownership (1933–1945), Cold War transfers, and colonial-era acquisitions create legal landmines. Most galleries discover gaps only when a claim is filed — too late.
AMLAR 2024/1624 requires risk-based due diligence from all art market participants. The EU Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) became operational in May 2025. Compliance is no longer optional.
Verification Technology
Not a photograph. Not a QR code. A digital visual fingerprint generated from the artwork’s physical surface — texture, cracks, brushstrokes, pigment patterns. One component of a verifiable digital identity.
Built for open verification — a buyer, a journalist, a customs officer. Photograph the artwork with a smartphone and the system compares the new image against the stored fingerprint using DINOv2 vision transformers. Field re-identification of the same physical object is on our roadmap.
Automated Provenance Research
A computed ratio of documented ownership years to total years since creation. A 1920s painting with records from 1925–1960 and 1985–present shows a gap of 25 years with a corresponding reduction in score.
Ownership changes during 1933–1945 are automatically flagged with elevated risk indicators. Not a presumption of guilt — a transparent signal for further investigation.
Automated queries against Art Loss Register, OFAC, EU/UN sanctions, Interpol stolen works, and national cultural heritage registers. Gaps identified. Matches documented. Everything auditable.
EU Compliance Built In
AMLAR 2024/1624 requires risk-based due diligence. MIRAS provides the computational scoring and audit trail to meet these requirements.
The Artwork & Context Risk Score (ARS, 8 variables) is scored automatically, with the Owner Risk Score (ORS, 6 variables) on our roadmap. It produces a risk score, never a real/fake verdict. Methodology (filed patent UIBM #102026000010327) published on SSRN (#6584859).
Every counterparty checked against OFAC, EU and UN sanctions lists and corporate registries, with PEP screening planned. Automated, documented, repeatable.
Audit-ready documentation combining verification results, provenance analysis, risk scores, and screening outputs. Ready for regulators and internal review.
Personal data in encrypted Data Vault, separate from the blockchain. Only cryptographic hashes on-chain. Right to erasure honoured without breaking audit integrity.
Why MIRAS
Verifiable identity. Automated compliance. Defensible provenance.
Visual DNA reads the artwork's physical surface. No expert opinion to dispute, no certificate to forge — the object anchors its own verifiable identity. One component of the MIRAS registry (filed patent UIBM #102026000009442).
Verification, provenance research, AML scoring, sanctions screening, and compliance reporting in a single integrated system. No data fragmentation. One audit trail.
EU AMLA is operational since May 2025. AMLR enforcement begins 2027. MIRAS is built for EU AMLAR 2024/1624, US AMIA, and UK HMRC AMP — ready before you need it.
A gallery’s reputation rests on every work it sells. MIRAS gives you a verifiable digital identity and automated compliance for every work — so your credibility rests on documented facts, not opinion.
Be among the first galleries and dealers to deploy MIRAS verification and automated provenance research. Register for early access.