Auction house provenance and dealer records that sell with the item.
The Provenance Passport: your authentication, condition report and service evidence - provenance documentation sealed into a Vault the buyer owns and can show the next buyer, their insurer and the police - with your name on it. For watch, jewellery, car, art, wine and collectables dealers and for auction houses.
The provenance problem in numbers
You already own the trust moment.
Stolen registers say what is stolen. Brand passports cover new goods inside the brand's app. Pre-owned trust is delivered by you, at the counter - then the buyer leaves with a paper receipt. The Provenance Passport makes that moment portable, with your name on it - dealer provenance records that outlast the receipt.
You seal the evidence
Authentication, condition and service reports are hashed on upload and receipted. Your dealership is named as issuer on each.
The buyer controls the Vault
They show it to their insurer, to the police if it is taken, and to the next buyer - under scopes they grant and revoke. No public lookup by serial; opens are logged.
It comes back to you
Every reader sees who authenticated and serviced the item - a referral you did not have to ask for, attached to the asset for life. Sold with the item, not given away.
Four steps from the counter to the next owner.
A Property Vault Pro workflow: register once, issue per item, and the record does the rest.
Register as a professional
Your dealership registers by reference to a trade body or scheme it already belongs to, under issuer terms, and issues at weight 0.9.
Seal the reports
Create the item's Vault - one Vault ID; serial or chassis held off-chain - and upload the authentication, condition and service reports. Each is hashed and receipted.
Hand the Vault to the buyer
At completion the buyer becomes the Owner and controls who reads it. You remain the named issuer of everything you sealed; it can be added to, never edited.
Transfer keeps it attached
When the item changes hands again the Verified History moves with it and your Passport stays in place; a later owner grants a scope in minutes.
Integrity anchoring is in rehearsal on the XRPL testnet; mainnet on the roadmap, subject to approvals. Property Vault never holds keys, client money or physical goods. Dealer management systems connect through the Vault API (launching; early access by request): create the item's Vault, upload sealed reports, issue - and receive signed webhooks. An Owner requesting a Provenance Passport from their Vault for a named dealer or auction house is launching with owner accounts.
Auction provenance research before the catalogue: consignment and lot diligence.
Auction house provenance starts with the consignor: ask them to share their Vault under a time-limited scope and read the whole history before you accept the lot - who issued each document, when, and where the gaps are.
- Every event graded by issuer: scheme, registered professional, firm or owner-provided.
- Gaps shown as gaps - years with no sealed evidence are visible, not smoothed over.
- The hammer falls; the buyer receives the Vault with your condition report sealed and your house named as issuer.
The Vault Score beside the record is a verification score - whether the documents exist, who issued them and that they are unaltered since issue; never a valuation, a credit input or a judgement of the work. Its rules and weights are published. Your specialists still decide the estimate and the attribution.
Four scopes are live in the Homes pilot - owner, agent-buyer, insurer-surveyor and solicitor; an auction scope is next.
Dealer provenance records: one Passport, five trades.
The Vault ID, sealed documents, Vault Score and transfer stay constant; the natural key changes. Watches and jewellery are the next class, then Vehicles - each launching with the partners who register it; every other class is designed for - register interest.
Watches and jewellery
LaunchingPre-owned watch authentication and service reports sealed at sale; the insurer's specified-item schedule reads the same record.
Natural key:serial · hallmark and stone reports sealed
Luxury
Classic cars and motorcycles
LaunchingInspection, matching-numbers and restoration evidence sealed by the specialist who did the work; the record follows the chassis, not the keeper.
Natural key:VIN / chassis · registration held off-chain
Classic car history
Art
Roadmap · subject to approvalsCondition reports, conservation records and exhibition history sealed by gallery, conservator or house; attribution stays with your specialists.
Natural key: none - the Vault ID is the identity Art provenanceWine and casks
Roadmap · subject to approvalsCask ownership letters, regauge and warehouse records sealed by the merchant or broker; the record moves with the cask.
Natural key:cask number · warehouse and bond held off-chain
Whisky cask ownership
Collectables
Roadmap · subject to approvalsGrading, authentication and sale records sealed by grading service, dealer or house - existing grades read as signals, not replaced.
Natural key:grading serial where one exists
Collectables inventory
Across your whole stock
A portfolio view of every Vault your dealership or house has issued - opens, revisits and downloads by scope.
Property Vault ProVerified lots are the eligible lots.
When Property Vault Markets launches through regulated partners, subject to regulatory approvals, the lots eligible for tokenised ownership through those partners will be the ones with a Verified History and a Vault Score above the issuer's minimum - the lots you certified. Property Vault supplies the record; it never hosts an offer.
Register interestA per-location annual fee. Talk to us.
What the fee covers
One annual fee per shop, showroom or saleroom, agreed with you rather than published as a tier while the Passport is launching.
- Registered-professional status for the location, with seats for its specialists
- Provenance Passports issued from that location
- Consignor reads under scope, the Pro portfolio view and Vault API access
Owners pay nothing: the buyer's Vault is free.
- A public price anchor
- $599.95-$999.95per location per year - Watch CSA's published dealer fee (Watch CSA, 2025). A third-party price quoted for scale, not ours.
Auction house provenance: what the trade asks us.
What does auction house provenance look like in Property Vault?
A consignor shares the item's Vault under a time-limited scope; your specialists read every sealed document - maker's certificate, dealer authentication, service, condition - with its issuer and date, and see the gaps as gaps. After the hammer the buyer receives the Vault with your condition report sealed and your house named as issuer. The Verified History is the asset provenance, kept for life.
Does it cover pre-owned watch authentication?
Watches and jewellery are the next class after Property, launching with the partners who register it. Your authentication report, condition report and service record are sealed at sale under your name; the serial is held off-chain and nothing is searchable by it. See watch provenance.
Is the Provenance Passport watch dealer software?
It is a workflow inside Property Vault Pro, not a stock system. You keep your dealer management system; it connects through the Vault API, which is launching with early access by request. Pro adds the portfolio view of every Vault your location has issued - the same verified asset records for business every sector reads.
Can a buyer or anyone look up an item by serial?
No. There is no public lookup by serial, chassis or cask number. The buyer controls the Vault and grants scopes to an insurer, the police or the next buyer; every open is logged. Documents are kept as tamper-evident documents, hashed on upload and receipted.
What does a dealer or auction house pay?
One annual fee per shop, showroom or saleroom, agreed with you while the Passport is launching. Owners pay nothing: the buyer's Vault is free, now and on transfer. Reads under scope are included for the location.
Put your name on the record the buyer keeps.
The Provenance Passport is launching. See it issued end to end, or tell us about your trade at hello@propertyvault.world.