The platform that lets digital-native art be bought, owned, and displayed the way traditional art already is
Overview
TokenView Gallery is a platform that lets galleries, museums, collectors, and artists certify, display, and sell digital-native art — without artists needing to print their work to capture value, and without collectors being limited by wall space.
Digital art is created constantly, but the market that pays for it is still built around physical objects. TokenView bridges that gap: a secure platform for certifying original digital work, displaying it professionally on any screen, and selling it the way galleries already sell physical originals — fiat-first, with crypto as an optional payment rail.
The Problem
- •Digital-native artists routinely print and physically reproduce their work purely to access the only value channel the market currently trusts.
- •Collectors and galleries are capped by wall space — a hard physical limit on how much art they can ever own and show at once.
- •Existing options don’t solve both sides at once: streaming services (e.g. Niio) show curated content passively; consumer display hardware (e.g. Meural/Opus) targets individual NFT collectors; neither is built as a certified-ownership sales platform for galleries and traditional buyers.
- •The crypto-native NFT marketplace model has largely collapsed (Nifty Gateway, MakersPlace, KnownOrigin, Async Art, Exchange Art all shut down 2023–2026) — confirming that a fiat-first, gallery-grade entry point is the right next move, not a repeat of speculative crypto art.
The Solution
TokenView Gallery lets users:
- ✓Certify original digital work and sell it — not license or stream it — with guaranteed edition numbers and authenticity.
- ✓Display unlimited certified work on any screen (desktop, TV, kiosk, mobile), with no wall-space ceiling.
- ✓Transact fiat-first, with crypto available as an optional rail, not the core mechanic.
- ✓Support all formats: images, video, generative art, 3D, audio.
- ✓Trust escrow-protected transactions and professional verification/curation.
“Others stream content or serve crypto-native collectors. We’re the entry point that lets digital-native art be bought, owned, and shown the way traditional art already is.”
Product Status
- ✓Core technology — proprietary encryption, display player (TV/kiosk/desktop/mobile), and marketplace/escrow infrastructure — built and functioning.
- ✓Validated through pilot installations in two galleries.
- ✓Payment infrastructure (fiat via Stripe, crypto optional) in place.
- ▶Currently building the customer support and buyer-onboarding process required to convert pilot interest into completed transactions; first sales targeted for Q4 2026.
- ▶Recommended hardware and installation guidance in development alongside the support process.
Demo available upon request.
Target Customers
Primary
- • Art galleries
- • Digital-native artists currently limited by print-to-sell workflows
Secondary
- • Museums, exhibitions and art fairs
- • Private collectors
- • Brands
- • Cultural institutions
Business Model
Dual revenue streams: SaaS subscriptions and marketplace fees
- •Marketplace: 12.5% transaction fee (Professional), 10% (Enterprise, negotiable at volume) — vs. 40–50% typical physical gallery commission
- •Fiat gateway: additional 1–2% on card purchases
- •Professional subscriptions: €99–€499/month
- •White-label deployments for institutions
Go-To-Market Strategy
Phase 1 — Prove the Transaction (current)
- • Build the manual support/onboarding process for the two existing pilot galleries.
- • Close the first completed sale through the platform.
- • Capture documented gallery and artist feedback on the two core value drivers: value capture without printing, and unlimited display.
Phase 2 — Reference Customers
- • Convert pilots into named case studies with real transaction data.
- • Expand to 3–5 galleries using Phase 1 proof.
Phase 3 — Scale
- • Museums, institutional and white-label deployments, using Phase 2 case studies as the primary sales tool.
Market Opportunity
Global art market: $59.6B in sales in 2025 (Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report 2026), almost entirely physical-object transactions. TokenView targets the display and certified-ownership infrastructure layer connecting digital-native creation to that market — an early-stage, largely unaddressed segment.
Fundraising
Round
Pre-Seed
Amount
€800,000
(€200K invested, €800K remaining)
Instrument
SAFE
Valuation cap
€7,000,000
Structure: UK Ltd
Use of Funds
- • Product hardening and scalability
- • Hosting and infrastructure
- • Gallery pilot installations and buyer support/onboarding build-out
- • Demo equipment for exhibitions
- • Sales pipeline development
Estimated runway: 18 months
Vision
Digital-native art deserves the same path to value as physical art: certified, owned, and displayed without compromise.
TokenView Gallery is that path.
Get in Touch
Paal Nymann
Founder & CEO