Verisart offers two certificate statuses:
Certificates of Authenticity
Registered Records Plus
Registered Record
You'll see the status of your certificate reflected in the badge appearing on your certificate and the confidence panel. Find out more about these here.

Certificate of Authenticity
Certificates of Authenticity must have:
A verified issuer
An identified creator who has authorized the issuer
In situations where the artist is certifying their own work, the issuer and creator are the same.
Who is it for?
Creators certifying their own works
Galleries and organizations certifying on behalf of creators with their authorization
Registered record +
A Registered Record + must have:
A verified issuer
Who is it for?
This describes situations where a business is issuing certificates under a business name or where the artist or creator is deceased and cannot authorize the issuer.
Registered Record
A record created by an unverified issuer
Not endorsed by the creator
Who is it for?
A collector creating a record of a work they own
Registered Records do not confer any authenticity or ownership, they act as a starting point for collecting data on the blockchain.
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