- The trade in fake Australian Indigenous art and design is estimated at a staggering $200 million a year.
- Existing solutions have tended to focus narrowly on markings, labels or digital platforms alone.
- The full strength of the APAC Provenance consortium – with its cohort of next-generation Australian technology leaders – was brought together to protect Indigenous artworks.
- This collaboration via IndigiLedger (supported by APAC Provenance blockchain technology partner VeChain) was the first to combine distributed ledger technology (DLT) with secure on-product marking by Laava and Gravitas Media.
- Globally renowned Indigenous artists were central to the project, including Chern’ee Sutton and Uncle Richard Bell.
- IndigiLedger has been generously supported by Queensland University of Technology.