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Provenance Check

Verify what you are actually buying before you buy a digital collectible.

Provenance Check examines a digital collectible listing or contract address for copied artwork, contract permissions, wash trading, creator identity and where the files are stored. Checks are free and need no wallet connection.

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No account. No card. No sales call.

  • No wallet connection required
  • Free, unlimited individual checks
  • Evidence shown for every finding

The problem

The digital collectible market is thick with counterfeits, copied artwork listed as originals, contracts with hidden transfer restrictions, fake trading volume created to manufacture the appearance of demand, and collections whose creators have disappeared.

Buyers have no practical way to check any of it, and losses are routine.

Who it is for

  • Buyers and holders

    People buying or holding digital collectibles and tokenised assets who want to check what they are buying.

  • Marketplaces and custodians

    Platforms that need to screen listings and reduce fraud losses.

What should you verify before you buy a digital collectible?

Answer sixteen questions about a listing you are considering: the artwork, the contract, trading activity, the creator, and storage and your own safety. See which checks are done and what to look into next. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

The listing you are considering

Answer for one listing. Nothing is sent, and no wallet is involved.

The artwork

Have you run a reverse image search on the artwork?

Have you confirmed the artwork appears only under this creator's name?

Does the creator's own website or profile link to this exact collection?

The contract

Is this the contract address the creator published, not a lookalike?

Have you confirmed the contract does not let the creator alter or revoke tokens?

Have you checked the contract for transfer restrictions?

Do you know how royalties behave when the token is resold?

Trading activity

Have you checked that trading volume comes from many different buyers?

Have you looked for tokens moving back and forth between the same wallets?

The creator

Can the creator's identity be verified somewhere outside the marketplace?

Is the creator still active and reachable?

Have you looked into what happened to the creator's earlier collections?

Storage and your own safety

Do you know where the artwork file and its metadata are actually stored?

Is the artwork stored somewhere that does not depend on one server staying up?

Have you checked the listing without connecting your wallet to any site?

Did you reach the listing yourself, rather than through a link sent in a message?

Answer the questions to see your score. It updates as you go.

Method: yes scores a question in full, partly scores half and no scores nothing. Each is weighted from one to three by how much the check affects what you would actually own, and the score is the weighted share out of a hundred. Unanswered questions are left out. It is not investment advice.

Check what you are buying before you buy it

Independent verification for any listing or contract address, with the evidence behind every finding.

  • 01

    Original or copied artwork

    Reverse image search across the web shows whether the artwork is original or a copy of work published elsewhere.

  • 02

    What the contract allows

    Whether the contract permits the creator to alter or revoke, plus transfer restrictions and royalty behaviour.

  • 03

    Wash trading detection

    Trade pattern analysis detects fake trading volume created to manufacture the appearance of demand.

  • 04

    Creator identity

    Creator identity is verified where it exists.

  • 05

    Where the assets live

    Shows where the assets are actually stored, since much of the market points at links that will eventually break.

  • 06

    Evidence for every finding

    Every finding shows its evidence.

Pricing

Individual checks are free and unlimited. Pay for portfolio monitoring, or for an API to screen listings at scale.

Checks

Individual checks on any listing.

Free
unlimited
  • No wallet connection
  • Evidence for every finding
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MonitoringRecommended

For holders of digital collectibles.

$15
per month
  • Portfolio monitoring
  • Alerts when a contract or storage changes
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API

For marketplaces and custodians.

$690
per month
  • Screen listings at scale
Talk to us

Prices in USD.

How it works

Provenance Check, from the first step to the result.

  1. 1

    Paste a listing or contract address

    No wallet connection needed.

  2. 2

    Read the full report

    Originality, contract permissions, trading patterns, creator identity and storage.

  3. 3

    Check the evidence

    Every finding shows what it is based on.

Questions people actually ask

Do I need to connect a wallet?

No. Checks require no wallet connection, which matters in a space where wallet connection is itself an attack vector.

What does a check cover?

Whether the artwork is original, whether the contract permits the creator to alter or revoke, transfer restrictions and royalty behaviour, wash trading, creator identity where it exists, and where the assets are actually stored.

How is copied artwork detected?

Through reverse image search across the web.

Does it work on any marketplace?

It works on any listing, anywhere.

What does it cost?

Individual checks are free and unlimited. Portfolio monitoring is 15 dollars a month, and API access is 690 dollars a month.

What does monitoring do?

It alerts you when a held asset's contract or storage changes.

Is there an API?

Yes. The API is for marketplaces and custodians screening listings at scale, at 690 dollars a month.

Why should I trust the pre-purchase listing check?

The score counts the checks you say you have done, in your browser. It does not inspect the listing or contract, it is not investment advice, and a high score does not make a purchase sound. The free checker examines a listing or contract address and shows its evidence.

What should you verify before you buy a digital collectible?

Answer sixteen questions about a listing you are considering: the artwork, the contract, trading activity, the creator, and storage and your own safety. See which checks are done and what to look into next. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

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It runs in your browser. Provenance Check never sees your inputs.