🧠 What’s Behind the Blockchain You’ve Probably Never Heard Of – That Just Raised $135M from Institutional Giants? While crypto headlines were quiet this week, one infrastructure story stood out — quietly but significantly: 💸 Digital Asset, the company behind the Daml smart contract language and developer of the Canton Network, announced a $135 million […]
Smart contracts make digital assets programmable. ERC-3643 adds compliance—ideal for tokenized real estate and regulated RWAs.
Own a piece of real estate – with just a few clicks? Not quite. Most tokenized “ownership” structures offer economic rights – not legal property. And the difference matters. In Europe and much of the West, legal ownership of real estate is still tied to centralized land registries.🧾 Title deeds and their transfers must be
Tokenization promised to unlock liquidity in real estate — but most platforms still fall short. Oceanpoint, Blocksquare’s new architecture, offers a modular design that separates governance, liquidity, and marketplaces. Could this be the blueprint for real-world trading of tokenized property?
Real estate tokenization may hit $4T by 2035—but the real signal is the delayed inflection. Here’s why adoption won’t follow a linear path.
🏦 Liquidity is the holy grail of Real Estate In the world of finance, one truth remains timeless: “There’s no substitute for liquidity. Liquidity equals value.” — Sam Zell, forefather of modern Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) – CNBC, April 2022 Real Estate (RE), despite being the world’s largest asset class, is still deeply illiquid.
A recent institutional survey by Coinbase & EY-Parthenon (2025 Institutional Investor Digital Assets Survey) shows that 72% of investors interested in tokenized assets plan to invest by 2026. While the study covers a broad spectrum of digital assets (including crypto and stablecoins), the message for tokenized Real-World Assets (RWA) is crystal clear: 🏘️ Real Estate
In this article, I explore the tokenization of real estate RWAs, meaning real estate-backed assets that are represented as tokens and made tradable digital assets. My focus is on new business models that could emerge for Swiss Banking. While blockchain applications are not currently among the top strategic priorities for Swiss banks—where AI and IT
Why does SIX invest in a Spanish Real Estate Tokenization and Trading Platform via its Spanish subsidiary, BME @Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, the Spanish Stock Exchange? Why should we care? Is OpenBrick just another startup in a niche market, tokenizing securities for real estate projects in Spain (i.e. “Blockchain Real Estate Tokenization”)? Or is there
Today, “crypto” is hardly understood as an investment instrument. Crypto is obviously not crypto, and the positions on what is valid sometimes diverge diametrically, even between proven authorities. This leads to great uncertainty among experts, and even more so among the general public. In my new article “Cryptoassets: Intrinsic Value Matters” on More Than Digital
