WISeKey partners with Ocean Protocol to launch 
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TrustedNFT. 
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io 
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, a decentralized marketplace for objects of value designed to empower 
artists, creators, and collectors with a unique solution for the 
authentication of physical artworks 
 
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WISeKey International Holding Ltd (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX: WIHN) (WISeKey), a 
leading cyber security, IoT, and AI platform company, is collaborating 
with 
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Ocean Protocol (Ocean) to launch 
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TrustedNFT.io, a decentralized marketplace for physical paintings, 
sculptures, luxury watches, and other objects of value. The trusted NFT 
marketplace will include non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to represent the 
physical work, combined with fungible tokens for more fluid price 
discovery and for staking on physical works. 
 
   By deploying Ocean's data marketplace technology to the domain of 
physical art, WISeKey's NFT marketplace will combine the strengths of 
both parties. WISeKey has developed specialized chips to link physical 
items with NFTs, and world-class blockchain identity technology. Ocean 
has developed powerful decentralized marketplace technology, with a 
track record in the domain of data assets. 
 
   "Like paintings or sculptures, NFTs need to be properly maintained. 
After all, an NFT is a record of provenance, not the artwork itself, so 
it's essential that the records are up to date and always available. 
TrustedNFT.IO deploys a number of mechanisms to provide this -- for 
example, we use our WISeKey Swiss Mountain Vault as a backup, connected 
to a multitude of hosts to ensure that NFTs remain online," said Carlos 
Creus Moreira, CEO and Founder of WISeKey. 
 
   Purchasing an exclusive piece of art is an important milestone in a 
collector's life, but this purchase comes with concerns that the work 
may be stolen, that the art itself may not be an original, or that its 
provenance might not be verifiable. While most high-end art collectors 
find it difficult to stop such acts, WISeKey's WISeART technology takes 
steps to protect exclusive pieces of artwork. It combines authentication 
microprocessors with identity blockchain technology, which, together 
with on-the-ground measures, 
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can ensure the authenticity of the artwork. 
 
   Moreover, if the art is stolen, it can be traced, making it difficult to 
be traded on the secondary market. This control is made possible because 
each artwork's identity is stored on a blockchain in the implemented 
system. 
 
   "We're thrilled to help WISeKey launch its marketplace for physical 
authenticated works of art. Before Ocean, our team built 
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ascribe.io, the world's first blockchain-secured art platform. 
TrustedNFT.io 
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will be one of the first use cases of our upcoming Ocean v4 release. The 
starting point is Ocean v3 ERC20 Fungible Tokens with AMMs to publish, 
stake and swap intellectual property licenses against base IP. V4 
extends this to represent base IP as ERC721 Non-Fungible Tokens, 
enabling tokenization of real-world objects," said Trent McConaghy, 
Founder of Ocean Protocol. 
 
   To learn more, watch the recent WISeKey webinar on TrustedNFT.io 
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, featuring speakers from Ocean Protocol and WISeKey. 
 
   About WISeKey 
 
   WISeKey is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying 
large scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using 
Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the 
Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing shaping 
today's Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install base of over 
1.5 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors (connected cars, 
smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart 
lighting, servers, computers, mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.). 
WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be at the edge of IoT as our 
semiconductors produce a huge amount of Big Data that, when analyzed 
with Artificial Intelligence (AI), can help industrial applications to 
predict the failure of their equipment before it happens. 
 
   The WISeAuthentic blockchain platform integrates the WISeKey 
semiconductors tags based on the company's VaultIC154 NFC secure 
element. These tags, when placed on any product and tapped by an NFC 
phone, securely authenticate and track the product much like an embedded 
ePassport and confirm the identity of the product on the blockchain 
ledger. WISeKey has included the NFT capability to its WISe.ART which 
uses a patented method for digital certification of authenticity of a 
physical object, and corresponding computer program and storage device, 
as well as using the method for digital certification of authenticity of 
a physical object of value. 
 
   WISekey technology is trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey's Swiss based 
cryptographic Root of Trust ("RoT") provides secure authentication and 
identification, in both physical and virtual environments, for the 
Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey 
RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity of online 
transactions among objects and between objects and people. For more 
information, visit 
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wisekey.com. 
 
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   About Ocean Protocol 
 
   Ocean Protocol's mission is to kickstart a Web3 Data Economy that 
reaches the world, giving power back to data owners and enabling people 
to capture value from data to better our world. 
 
   Data is a new asset class; Ocean Protocol unlocks its value. Data owners 
and consumers use the Ocean Market app to publish, discover, and consume 
data assets in a secure, privacy-preserving fashion. 
 
   Ocean datatokens turn data into data assets. This enables data wallets, 
data exchanges, and data co-ops by leveraging crypto wallets, exchanges, 
and other DeFi tools. Projects use Ocean libraries and OCEAN in their 
own apps to help drive the Web3 Data Economy. 
 
   The Ocean token is used to stake on data, to govern Ocean Protocol's 
community funding, and to buy & sell data. Its supply is disbursed over 
time to drive near-term growth and long-term sustainability. OCEAN is 
designed to increase with a rise in usage volume. 
 
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   About WISeKey 
 
   WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global 
cybersecurity company currently deploying large scale digital identity 

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