Developers of Stampery consider their new service to be especially useful and time-saving for lawyers, as it certifies documents using blockchain technology.

Stampery offers document certification that electronically proves their existence and the date of their receiving. The company argues that these functions could be of particular convenience for professionals working with sensitive documents that need to be notarised, that is to say, for lawyers as well as copyright holders and intellectual property claimants.

One of the main advantages of the service cited by its creators is that to certify a document you no longer need to entrust it to a third party juridically approved by the state. It becomes possible since blockchain already has all the necessary elements of formal proof: all the content stamped by the system cannot be modified or deleted, it is registered by the distributed ledger and thus can be verified.

As an option the company offers users the possibility to create their own cryptographic signatures linked to their identifiers on the system or to associate their government IDs with the system. According to Stampery's CEO, Daniele Levi, the service excludes any opportunity for someone to notarise documents in the name of a particular user.

Concerning service fees, as the company website indicates, up to 10 items per month can be notarised for free, while notarisation of up to 1000 items would cost $9,90 per month.

The company's CEO has recently announced that next month Stampery will introduce one more service - an email flagging system that will indicate whether a receiver has opened an email.

Anna Lavinskaya