TrueCOA was founded in 2025 by a team of forensic analysts, blockchain engineers, and collectibles industry veterans who shared one conviction: authentication should be provable, not promised.
The collectibles and memorabilia market has a systemic trust problem. Paper certificates are easily forged. Expert opinions are subjective. Private databases disappear when companies do. TrueCOA was built to solve all three — permanently.
We combine proprietary handwriting biometrics, physical forensic analysis, and dual-chain blockchain anchoring into a single, publicly verifiable certification standard. Every certificate we issue is independently confirmable by anyone, anywhere, forever.
Our team brings technical depth and domain expertise across every category we authenticate — and the adjacent industries that authenticate, insure, and value high-worth assets.
Authentication expertise covering Shepard Fairey, KAWS, Banksy, Death NYC, Mr. Brainwash, and 100+ additional artists. Deep knowledge of edition structures, signing conventions, and forgery patterns by era and medium.
Signed jerseys, balls, cards, and equipment across NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and Olympic sports. Extensive exemplar libraries for active and retired athletes across five decades of signing history.
Signed albums, instruments, setlists, and tour merchandise from artists across rock, hip-hop, pop, and jazz. Authentication covering vintage signatures from the 1950s through present-day artists.
Astronaut-signed NASA mission photography, mission patches, flight manuals, and equipment. Specialists in NASA provenance documentation and space collectibles valuation.
Signed scripts, posters, props, and photographs from the full entertainment industry. Authentication of vintage Hollywood signatures through contemporary releases and limited-edition collectibles.
Signed first editions, manuscripts, letters, and historical documents. Forensic document analysis extends to historical signatures, contested attribution, and estate authentication.
Engineering depth in Polygon Layer-2 architecture, Bitcoin timestamping, NFT issuance standards, smart contract deployment, and decentralized storage. We build the systems we use.
Authentication of limited-edition vinyl figures including KAWS Companions, BE@RBRICK, Medicom Toy, Funko, and designer art toys. Verification of edition authenticity, foot stamps, box era-correctness, sculpt proportions, and paint line integrity across original and counterfeit detection.
Formal training in questioned document examination, ink and paper analysis, Fourier transform spectral decomposition, and multi-vector biometric signature modeling aligned with ASTM and FBI standards.
TrueCOA's team brings together forensic document analysts, blockchain engineers, and collectibles market veterans — each with deep domain expertise in the categories we authenticate.
Polygon and Ethereum smart contract architect with prior roles at Consensys and a Web3 infrastructure startup. Built TrueCOA's dual-chain anchoring pipeline from the ground up. Contributor to three open EIP standards.
PhD in computational forensics from Carnegie Mellon. Designed TrueCOA's 4-vector biometric signature model and the Fourier transform baseline drift algorithm. Previously led ML authentication research at a major grading company.
We never issue a certificate based on reputation, provenance claims, or seller assurances alone. Every certification is backed by measurable, documented, reproducible analysis. If we can't prove it, we don't certify it.
Every certificate we issue is anchored on two public blockchains. The record cannot be altered, deleted, or hidden — even by TrueCOA. Our clients' certifications outlive us.
When an item fails our assessment, we provide a detailed written explanation of exactly why — not a form letter. Collectors deserve to understand what the evidence shows.
Our AI systems are trained to flag uncertainty, not hide it. Any submission below our 94% confidence threshold is automatically escalated to a human expert before a decision is made.