Trust & Regulatory Framework
PROVINUS™ operates under sovereign jurisdiction and compliance in over 40 countries. Every framework below is not an aspiration but an operational requirement, enforced at the platform level and verified by independent audit.
Governance Principles
ALETHRA™ is the certification mark and governance layer. Every certification, every transaction, and every verification operates under a single governed standard, not platform convenience, but sovereign-grade protocol enforced uniformly across all jurisdictions.
No work enters the registry on reputation alone. Every certification begins with the ALETHRA™ scan baseline, molecular structure, material DNA, and vector identity, before any certificate is issued. The evidence is the foundation; the certificate is its expression.
The blockchain anchor proves the evidence exists and has never been altered, without exposing the evidence itself. Insurers, lenders, and courts can verify integrity through permissioned access, seeing exactly what they need, never the full vault.
ALETHA™ operates every verification with continuous, evidence-grounded intelligence. But final authority on contested attributions, restitution claims, and cultural property disputes rests with qualified human experts under ALETHRA™ governance. Never with the algorithm alone.
Regulatory Mapping
Global
PROVINUS™ implements the Financial Action Task Force Recommendations for dealers in high-value goods, including customer due diligence, beneficial ownership identification, and suspicious transaction reporting protocols across all member jurisdictions.
European Union
Full compliance with the Fifth and Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directives, including art market participant registration, enhanced due diligence for transactions exceeding €10,000, and reporting to national Financial Intelligence Units.
United States
Every member, consignor, and counterparty is screened against the Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals list, with continuous monitoring and automatic transaction blocking for sanctioned entities.
International
Cultural property provenance is verified against the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, with Interpol Stolen Works of Art database cross-referencing.
United States
Cooperation protocols with the FBI Art Crime Team for stolen art recovery, including immediate registry flagging, evidence preservation, and chain-of-custody documentation suitable for criminal proceedings.
International
Every work entering the registry is checked against Interpol's Stolen Works of Art database. Matches trigger immediate alert to the appropriate national central bureau and freeze of all platform activity for the flagged work.
Member Verification
Every member (collector, dealer, institution, or insurer) completes enhanced due diligence before platform access is granted. Identity verification, beneficial ownership disclosure, source-of-funds documentation, and sanctions screening are mandatory and continuous.
Membership is tiered: Registry (view and verify), Qualified (trade and consign), and Sovereign (Black Room access, dedicated advisory, and custody services). Each tier carries proportionate due diligence requirements.
Anomaly Response
ALETHA™ monitors every certified work continuously. Detected anomalies (environmental deviation, unauthorized movement, condition change, or registry mismatch) trigger immediate alert to the owner, the insurer, and where required, the relevant authority.
The complete sealed evidence package is attached to every alert, providing investigators and courts with cryptographic proof of the work's state before, during, and after any event.