Central Reserve: a luxury resale platform where provenance travels with the item

In luxury resale the question is never only what an item is. It is whether it is genuine, where it has been, and whether the person selling it is entitled to. Those answers are usually scattered across receipts, photographs and the word of the previous seller, and they are lost a little more every time the item changes hands.

Central Reserve was built so that the record stays with the item. A piece is authenticated once, and the provenance record that results travels with it through every listing, valuation and sale.

Each piece enters the platform through authentication, and the outcome becomes the first entry in its provenance record. Listing draws on that record rather than on the seller's description; valuation draws on the record and on comparable sales on the platform; and a sale appends the transfer to the record, so the next owner receives the item and its history together.

Buyers see the provenance before they bid. Sellers are verified. Every step, from intake to shipment, is logged, so that a dispute about an item is settled from the record rather than from memory.

Opsian's work is built on one record per person, signed at every decision. Central Reserve applies the same principle to objects. A provenance record that cannot be separated from the item is what makes a resale market trustworthy, and it is the same substrate that runs identity for guests and patients elsewhere in Opsian's work.