EGI
Do you have something of value that you would like to see last?
A work, a patent, a document, a good made with your own hands — anything you have created with your ingenuity that deserves to be remembered.
Florence EGI is the system I built so that thing can have a certified life, an immutable memory, a value that returns to you every time it changes hands.
What it is in one sentence
Florence EGI is a system that lets anyone turn a work of their own making into a certified asset on blockchain — equipped with every layer it needs to exist and grow in value even outside the platform.
It is not a marketplace. It is not an NFT service. It is something more: a structure that gives each creator, each business, each institution its own personal market maker.
What Shopify did for e-commerce, EGI does for certified assets.
EGI — Environment Goods Invent
Three words that together say what the system does: it takes a good born of your ingenuity (Goods), certifies it as unique (Invent), and registers it in an infrastructure that maintains a contribution to the environment on every transaction (Environment).
"Good" here is meant broadly: art, design, photography, music, but also patents, contracts, certified records, artisan products, intellectual property. Everything born of your work deserves to be certified, and everything can become an EGI.
If you create
When you turn your work into an EGI you receive:
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Your own personal market maker.
Shop, pricing, campaigns, analytics. You do not enter someone else's marketplace — you open your own.
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Royalties at 4.5% on every resale, forever.
When someone resells your EGI to another person, you receive your share automatically. It works even ten years later, even if you are no longer around. The blockchain does not forget.
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Legal certification of the work.
Hash, timestamp, digital signature. Robust proof of authorship, recognised by Italian and European law.
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An AI that helps you sell.
It suggests pricing, timing, narratives, and tells you who might be interested in what you do.
If you buy
Buying an EGI is not buying an image. It is entering a story.
If you are the first to buy
a work at the moment of its issuance, you become a Co-Creator: your signature remains inscribed in the blockchain memory of the work, visible to everyone, forever. Even if you resell the work ten years later, even if it changes hands five more times, your name is there as the one who activated that creation. The Renaissance patron, brought back as a modern role.
If you are a collector buying from others
on the secondary market, you receive the work with all its memory — the creator's signature, the original Co-Creator's signature, the chain of those who have kept it. You can hold it, display it, gift it, resell it. And every time it changes hands, a small part of the value returns to the original creator.
If you have a business or an institution
You do not need to be an artist to use EGI. If your organisation produces something worth certifying — a quality artisan product, a document, a contract, a work of intellectual property — you can open your own market channel.
Do you have a jewellery shop with unique pieces? Open your own market maker with your identity, sell certified pieces, keep control of your narrative. A Public Administration can notarise records. A firm can certify patents. A gallery can represent its artists inside a system where every transaction leaves an immutable trace.
The environment at the heart of the system
Something I wanted from the very start: 20% of the value of every new issuance goes automatically to verified environmental projects. Reforestation, ocean cleanup, biodiversity, renewable energy.
This is not a moral promise that can be broken when convenient. It is written into the system's code, managed by the blockchain, guaranteed by Associazione Frangette APS which holds statutory veto power over any change to the founding principles.
When you sell your EGI, a part goes automatically to the environment. When someone buys yours, a part goes to the environment. When the work is resold in the future, a part keeps going to the environment. Forever.
To learn more about these projects, there is the EPP door.
From here on
Florence EGI is in production, today, at art.florenceegi.com, opens in new tab. There are creators already working on the platform. If you want to enter as a visitor or understand how it works, start there.
If instead you have a question, a proposal, or something you want to understand before making a move, write to me.