THE NEXT GEN AUTHENTICATION STANDARD

The Realest is where the most important pieces of sports and culture get authenticated and sold. We work directly with the athletes, teams, leagues, players’ associations, and artists who make the moments, and with the collectors who have been holding the rarest pieces for years.

Our authentication process leads the industry by a longshot and has become the most trusted and secure standard in the space.

The Realest sets records in every category it enters. Shohei Ohtani’s Tokyo Series jersey sold for $2,055,700, the highest price ever paid for a baseball jersey this century.

His Tokyo Series cleats sold for $440,055, five times the previous footwear record. We hold the all-time records for the game’s most prestigious awards, including the Gold Glove and Silver Slugger, game-worn records across the NFL, NBA, and women’s sports, and the all-time record for hip-hop equipment with Dr. Dre’s mixing board. 

Our drops get noticed too: the most expensive courtside seat ever sold, Philadelphia Eagles snow, and the first collectible ever to win a Clio Award.

Our partners include teams across the NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA, WNBA, and more alongside the MLBPA, the PGA of America, the PWHL, Unrivaled, and more in sports. In music, our roster includes Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Megadeth, Andrea Bocceli, J Balvin, and more.

The Realest is backed by EnOne (Entrust, + OneTeam Partners), Elysian Park Ventures, Live Nation, KB Partners, FLUS (Sal x Co & LiveNation), NFX, Slow Ventures, and more.

Authentication

Authentication used to document history. The Realest’s IRIS witnesses it.

IRIS is our patent-pending authentication system, built in-house and running live at NBA, NFL, NHL, WNBA, and NCAA games. Items are tagged and fingerprinted at the source using computer vision and physical in-arena tracking machines, creating a definitive record of identity, use, and provenance down to the second.

That fingerprint is permanent. Even if a tag or sticker is removed, the item can be identified. The Realest’s authenticators are on site when a moment calls for hands-on collection. Every item carries a digital record that travels with it forever.

Collectors with pieces of their own go through the same standard with Certified by The Realest. Learn how it works.