Codex has partnered with Dust Identity to link physical objects with digital records. Dust offers an aerosol spray of inexpensive, industrial-grade diamond dust that creates a crystalline fingerprint on the Picasso. It’s invisible to the naked eye, but an iPhone can scan it. Dust plans to store the unique ID onto Codex Records, so that you could check with 100% confidence that the physical piece is the same one represented by the Codex Record.

But even without technologies like Dust, Codex is a massive improvement over the market today. If paper documentation is good enough for an asset class of $2 Trillion, just think how much the asset class could grow with the information security offered by the immutable blockchain.