CESS empowers art to enter the Web3 era

Since entering the comprehensive digital age, Web2 has covered all aspects of daily life. Art, as the spiritual food of humanity, has an eternal creative spirit, but the forms of displaying and storing artworks have been continuously updated with the development of technology. Digital art is a new form of art born from internet technology.

Now, as the Web3 era is about to fully arrive, blockchain technology is gradually being applied across various industries. Decentralized storage based on blockchain technology is one of the important infrastructures of Web3. The emergence of Web3 decentralized storage technology also brings new possibilities to the art world.

This article will explore how Web3 storage technology empowers the art field and facilitates the digital transformation of art. We will introduce the current development status of the combination of blockchain technology and art, analyze the problems faced by the current art field, and how decentralized storage technology can solve these problems. More importantly, we will introduce CESS (Cumulus Encrypted Storage System) and how it provides artists with a secure and efficient storage platform, promotes the development of digital art, and enables artists to better bring their works to market, while also leading art into the Web3 era.

The Explosion of NFTs in the Art Field

Tracing the application of blockchain technology, it has actually been validated in the art field (especially fine art) for a long time. In the combination of decentralized storage and art, the most representative is NFT (Non-Fungible Token).

NFTs, as a type of digital asset, can represent ownership of physical assets such as artworks, possessing irreplaceability and uniqueness. Artists can mint their works as NFTs on the blockchain and issue and circulate NFTs representing these works. The on-chain storage of these NFTs relies on decentralized storage technology.

Artist Mike Winkelmann (Beeple) started creating a digital artwork every day from May 2007, and then collaged 5,000 days of paintings together, selling it as an NFT for a high price of $69 million; British artist and famous street artist Banksy's 2016 work "Morons" was bought by Injective Protocol blockchain company for $95,000, then live-streamed and burned, and later sold as an NFT through SuperFarm blockchain technology… Subsequently, many museums joined in, turning multiple famous paintings in their collections into NFTs for sale. It can be said that NFTs have already exploded in the art field, showcasing the potential of blockchain technology, especially the combination of decentralized storage and art. "Morons" being burned

Why Art Needs Decentralized Storage

Currently, the art field faces pain points including: excessive concentration of power, difficulties in artwork transactions, and challenges in storage and protection of works. These issues lead to a series of problems such as lack of transparency in the art market, high commissions, and frequent copyright disputes, severely restricting the development of the art industry.

The emergence of decentralized storage technology provides possibilities to solve these pain points. Due to the characteristics of decentralized storage technology, such as information security, shareability, and transparency, it can provide artists and collectors with more transaction methods and circulation channels, reduce intermediary costs and risks in transactions, and better protect the copyright and privacy of works. Decentralized storage technology shifts art from physical space to digital space, providing more convenient avenues for the circulation of artworks, allowing more people to easily access and appreciate art, thereby promoting the development of the art market.

Ownership Protection

By utilizing blockchain technology, artists can store their copyright information on the blockchain, ensuring the copyright and ownership of their works. At the same time, blockchain technology can record the transaction records and ownership transfer records of artworks to ensure the transparency and traceability of all transactions.

Complete Storage

The traditional art market often requires complex coordination and intermediaries among various roles such as collectors, artists, galleries, and auction houses, and there are certain risks, such as the loss or damage of artworks. With the development of Web3 storage technology, artists can encrypt and store their works on the blockchain, ensuring complete and permanent preservation of artworks.

Display and Transaction

At the same time, distributed storage technology can provide more diverse and decentralized display methods for artworks, allowing more artists and artworks to be appreciated by audiences worldwide. For example, through NFT technology, artists can turn their works into digital assets and then store them on decentralized storage networks, achieving safer and more flexible transaction methods.

In addition to the NFTization of paintings, other art forms such as music can also be better protected and promoted through decentralized storage. For instance, decentralized storage can provide better protection for music works, allowing artists to earn higher revenues and achieve more transparent and fair transactions. Moreover, based on decentralized storage, music works can be disseminated more widely, providing better avenues for the promotion of music works.

How CESS Empowers Art

CESS, as the first blockchain network in the Web3 industry to support large-scale commercial storage, provides a decentralized full-stack solution for the value realization of sovereign data, privacy security, and high availability and durability of data. While meeting the aforementioned needs for providing proof of ownership, complete storage, and diverse display and transaction for the art field, CESS relies on its innovative technology to bring more development advantages and application scenarios to art, thereby promoting the entry of the art field into Web3.

- Sovereignty Returns, CESS Makes Art Safer

Digital artworks need to be transmitted over the internet, but they are easily susceptible to hacking and piracy, which is also one of the reasons digital artworks face bottlenecks in traditional markets. The frequent incidents of NFT theft in the Web3 industry highlight the importance of security. CESS's innovative multi-type data rights confirmation mechanism (MDRC) and proxy re-encryption (PReT) utilize digital fingerprint extraction --- --- fingerprint on-chain --- --- fingerprint comparison processes, making the on-chain digital fingerprint the unique proof of data ownership. MDRC ensures data rights confirmation, returning data ownership to data owners; the decentralized proxy re-encryption mechanism introduced by CESS allows data owners to change data ownership among users without disclosing data content, maximizing the usage value of data while ensuring privacy.

- Value Transmission, CESS Facilitates the Circulation of Art

Digital artworks can circulate through the decentralized cloud storage services provided by CESS, promoting seamless transactions globally. Artists can easily sell their works in markets across different countries and regions, realizing the value transmission of artworks in the digital market; at the same time, CESS ensures the permanent storage of artworks, allowing the value and significance of art to transcend geographical and temporal limitations, passing down through generations.

- Art Dapps, Building a Web3 Art World with CESS

As a blockchain network, CESS can help artists build decentralized applications for art on CESS. Based on the actual needs of art development and usage, it can create art-related Dapps, allowing artists, artworks, and users to communicate better in a decentralized world.

A notable case is that CESS can leverage its decentralized large-scale storage advantages to provide essential support for a decentralized platform for Web3 artists' works.

- Decentralized Art Platform, CESS Provides Large-Scale Storage

As an industry-leading decentralized cloud storage network, CESS is committed to promoting the application of decentralized storage technology in the art field. In addition to providing efficient and secure storage services, CESS's pioneering decentralized object storage (DeOSS) can support large-scale commercial storage for phenomenal Dapps. Taking a decentralized art platform as an example, CESS enables more artists and cultural institutions to utilize this platform to share and trade their works.

Web3 Digital Art Market

The decentralized art platform will be built on blockchain technology, including various functions such as digital rights management, artwork sales, art valuation, and auctions. The launch of this platform will provide more business opportunities and economic support for artists and cultural institutions, while also promoting the development and prosperity of the digital artwork market.

Secure and Efficient Storage Services

CESS's decentralized storage technology will also provide artists and cultural institutions with a more secure and efficient way to store digital media, allowing them to manage, display, and trade their works more easily.

Building an Art Collaboration Platform

The establishment of a decentralized storage platform can facilitate seamless collaboration among artists from different regions, allowing them to work together on projects without worrying about file storage, sharing, and version control. By providing a secure and decentralized collaboration platform, artists can focus on the creative process, knowing that their works are protected and easily accessible.

Immersive Art Experience

With the rise of virtual reality and the metaverse, decentralized storage can provide artists with a powerful and secure platform to create and share immersive digital art experiences. By ensuring the availability and accessibility of high-quality digital assets, decentralized storage can enable artists to break creative boundaries and engage more audiences in novel and exciting ways.

Conclusion

The application of decentralized storage technology allows the art field to better enter the Web3 era and is expected to promote the rapid development of the digital artwork market. CESS, as an industry-leading decentralized cloud storage network, possesses efficient, secure, and scalable storage capabilities, and its pioneering decentralized object storage (DeOSS) can support large-scale commercial storage for phenomenal Dapps, providing strong technical support for creating a decentralized art platform belonging to Web3. By realizing the value and sharing of data sovereignty (free circulation), more digital artworks can be traded, displayed, and circulated in a decentralized ecosystem, thereby truly achieving the maximum value and infinite possibilities of art + decentralized storage.