Global real estate: ~$380T
Tokenized so far: <0.01%
Real estate is the largest asset class on earth. Almost none of it lives on-chain yet.
Do you see the opportunity now?
What if a building could tell you its own story?
Not just who owns it, a title does that, but the real stuff. What’s breaking down. What the roof costs to fix. How it performs. What it could become with the right retrofit.
That’s the point @Matmerkad (CEO of @magmarealestate )
Tokenized real estate has moved past the question of digital ownership.
The harder problem now: building the data infrastructure that lets AI systems actually understand, evaluate, and trade these assets.
That came up again and again in our panel, Beyond Tokenization:
“Everything running on traditional rails will eventually become onchain, tokenized.”
Real estate is one of the clearest places to see why.
The value is already there. So is the income and the demand. What’s missing is easier access, liquidity, faster settlement, and a way to
Vlad Tenev: “The future in crypto is in real-world assets.”
“If an asset isn’t tied to an underlying utility, it’s not a productive asset. What’s the benefit of making another million memecoins?”
“Everything running on traditional rails will eventually become onchain,
One property gives you a clear view of what you own.
You can assess the building, the tenants, the costs, and the exit. But if too much income depends on one tenant, the risk is concentrated.
A tokenized fund spreads that exposure across several properties. The trade-off is
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@makconcept, COO of Blocksquare, shares the method he believes works best and what makes a tokenization structure credible.
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Vlad Tenev: “The future in crypto is in real-world assets.”
“If an asset isn’t tied to an underlying utility, it’s not a productive asset. What’s the benefit of making another million memecoins?”
“Everything running on traditional rails will eventually become onchain,
“Everything running on traditional rails will eventually become onchain, tokenized.”
Real estate is one of the clearest places to see why.
The value is already there. So is the income and the demand. What’s missing is easier access, liquidity, faster settlement, and a way to
Vlad Tenev: “The future in crypto is in real-world assets.”
“If an asset isn’t tied to an underlying utility, it’s not a productive asset. What’s the benefit of making another million memecoins?”
“Everything running on traditional rails will eventually become onchain,
A sale-leaseback sounds simple. Sell the building, lease it back, keep operating.
The hard part is finding the buyer.
The traditional version needs one institution big enough to take the whole property. A REIT, a fund, an insurer. Short list. And the seller usually takes
