Digital art platforms can face issues with authentication, ownership verification, and intellectual property protection
due to their centralized approach. Such issues mainly affect artists living in rural areas with less accessible digital technology.
This paper will present a secure mobile application framework using blockchain technology for art authentication and
empowerment.
The proposed system utilizes a mobile application, the concept of blockchain, and the idea of a smart contract to develop a
tamper-proof authentication and an open and transparent management for the art ownership system. Digital art is stored in an
encrypted off-chain space, and the cryptographic hashes and metadata information about the digital art is placed in the
blockchain for data integrity and verification. Security analysis and performance analysis verify the efficiency and scalability
of mobile art authentication in the proposed system. Through the facilitation of a secure and decentralized process for the
verification of artworks by use of mobile technology, the proposed framework enables digital inclusion, which empowers
artists, especially those in rural areas, to safeguard their creative properties.
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