NFTS and Smart Contracts in Digital Art: Building a Secure Online Art Marketplace

Finding innovation in blockchain technology, the Online Art Gallery to changes the digital art marketplace to create a safe and transparent environment for artists and buyers. With this system, artists can sign up to upload, Manage and sell their artworks. Buyers can look for, purchase, and own with verified authenticity. Some of the most important features are the digital certificates generation, ownership verification as well as safe transactions. Blockchain-based, it offers greater security with watermarking, preventing screenshots, and decentralized storage through IPFS to prevent unauthorized use of the digital artworks. The process of buying artworks becomes relatively easy for the buyer, having an immutable transaction record on the blockchain that preserves ownership rights and establishes a basis of trust. The application also offers a user-friendly interface that connects artists to international crowds and simplifies the management and sale digital art to artists. The paper focuses on showing the enhancement of security, transparency, and efficiency in the marketplace by using blockchain technology for digital art, with value to both creators and collectors.