Overview

Tephra is a Digital Ownership Platform (DOP) for brands and artists.

Platform

Tephra securely manages the creation and transfer of digital assets. Every transaction is stored in the Tephra Changeset. We regularly preserve the changeset with the same tools auction houses use to secure multi-million dollar artworks (ETH/IPFS). We've taken careful steps to ensure these preserves will exist into the distant future.

// Import our SDK
import { TephraSDK } from '@tephranet/tephra-sdk'

// Authenticate
const tephra = new TephraSDK(KEY, SECRET)

// Create an asset
const myPainting = await tephra.create({
  name: 'Spirt World - Digital Painting',
  image: {
    type: 'ipfs',
    address: 'Qme7ss3ARVgxv6rXqVPiikMJ8u2NLgmgszg13pYrDKEoiu',
  },
})

// Grant the asset
await tephra.grant(myPainting, "Daphne")

// Transfer the asset
await tephra.transfer(myPainting, "Daphne", "Velma")

Key Features

👻 No Accounts Required

Keep your account provider. We don't store any user data. You only need to provide Tephra with user IDs that are meaningful to your platform when granting and transferring assets. (see Grants & Transfers)

🔐 Rich History & Validation

Each asset has its own unique validation page. This page is styled to match your branding, and displays the contents of the asset (an image, text, structured attributes, etc) along with the full record of ownership. (see Validation)

📈 Massively Scalable

We can provide accounts to meet virtually any scale requirements. You could manage anywhere from a few assets to a few hundred thousand without changing your integration.

🧰 Built for Integration

We've crafted our APIs to extend your digital experience, not to replace it. Combined with modern e-commerce platforms and payment providers, It will produce innovations worthy of your brand.

🏝 Portable to Other Markets

If you choose, customers can "eject" assets from Tephra to be bought and sold elsewhere. When an asset leaves our network, we store the date/owner at the time of ejection and maintain the Tephra address as a Certificate of Authenticity. (see Ejecting)