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Cityscape Conference 2017: Blockchain + Real Estate

Shared by Omar Kassim·10th September 2017·68 slides

$Slide 34: Re-inventing our payments systems will allow seamless payment for fractional use of public infrastructure$

My deck from the Cityscape Conference 2017 that took place in Dubai on the 10th of September 2017. I spent a few minutes discussing an overview of blockchain networks and how they may apply to the world of real estate.

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Blockchain + Real Estate

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The Blockchain Tech Stack

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[1]: Preethi Kasireddy, https://hackernoon.com/bitcoin-ethereum-blockchain-tokens-icos-why-should-anyone-care-890b868cec06

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What’s a blockchain?

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"The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value." -Don and Alex Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution

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That’s a bit of a mouthful, so let’s simplify..

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"A blockchain is a distributed public database that keeps a permanent record of digital transactions. " -Preethi Kasireddy, Blockchain Engineer

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[2]: Curious Inventor, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx9zgZCMqXE

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[2]: Curious Inventor, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx9zgZCMqXE

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[2]: Curious Inventor, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx9zgZCMqXE

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What’s the protocol layer?

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These are the rules that are enforced by a blockchain to maintain distributed consensus across the network

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What are tokens?

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A token (or a coin) represents the digital asset and the underlying economic value of a blockchain network

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Over 900+ tokens today.

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What are applications?

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Aside from money = today’s most common use case, we can use blockchains to build new applications

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1. Protocols 2. General Applications

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Protocols = payments, identity, domain name systems, cloud computing, reputation systems, advertising..

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Applications = wallets, exchanges, crowdfunding, prediction markets..

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There are two broad ways in which we can think about building on the blockchain

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1. Build new blockchains and tokens 2. Build new tokens on top of existing blockchains (= faster, more liquidity..)

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⚡ A Few Blockchain + Real Estate Ideas

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🔩 Planning & Forecasting

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💡 A developer could sell “planning” tokens to forecast true demand. 👍 If the tokens sell = build 👎 If they don’t = re-plan

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🚡 Public Infrastructure

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Today’s payment systems are ineﬃcient and are expensive to manage and maintain Think about the steps you need to go though to top up your Salik account..🙄

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🌳 You walk into a park and AED 0.000001 is automatically billed to your secure wallet + UAE blockchain

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🚗 You drive into a public parking lot and ANPR recognises your number plate. When you leave, AED 0.0002 is automatically billed to your secure wallet + UAE blockchain

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Re-inventing our payments systems will allow seamless payment for fractional use of public infrastructure

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This means we can fund public infrastructure significantly more eﬃciently.

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📈 Fractional Real Estate Investment

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💡 Tokenise each real estate asset or a portfolio of assets.

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⚡ Buy, sell and trade real asset tokens instantly. Globally. (AKA Unbundled REITs)

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⚠ Customary Plug This is something that we’re working on at Esanjo

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📈 Seamless Home Buying

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📲 A buyer swings by an open house and taps one button on their device.. 🏡 to buy, execute and sign a contract, organise escrow, sort out finance, pay the landlord, organise moving, switch over utilities and.. 💥

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🔖 Title Registry

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[3]: Bitcoin - An Australian Invention in Land Titling? https://spatialsource.com.au/latest-news/bitcoin-an-australian-innovation-in-land-titling

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⚡ Today: Government records titles or recording system to look up chain of title Tomorrow: Blockchain networks eﬃciently provide proof of ownership and full history since inception

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🐧 Blockchain Real Estate Startups

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REX Propy ATLANT REIDAO REAL Bitproperty REcoin

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There’s even an International Blockchain Real Estate Association!

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👊 So, what does all of this mean?

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If all real estate assets are eventually digitised on a blockchain what does that mean for the industry?

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Owners, Investors, Tenants, Agents, Service Providers, Lawyers, Accountants, Escrow, Financiers, Mortgage Brokers, Conveyancers and more..

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⌨🖱 Anything that can be programmed, will.

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Leaving us with.. Owners & Tenants. Only.

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If you’re a programmable function = you’ll eventually become a niche (Booking.com, Expedia vs travel agents)

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Let me give you a quick example

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Software is starting to eat the legal world

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4 Lawyers = Today 5 Legalese.com = Tomorrow

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📂 Legalese is an open-source project to draft legal documents the way programmers develop software. ✳ Legalese's L4 language will allow programmers to draft contracts.

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Disrupt. Don’t be disrupted.

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The blockchain has the potential to turn the internet into the world’s largest decentralised stock exchange

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The blockchain has the potential to turn the internet into the world’s largest decentralised stock exchange asset exchange

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@okassim

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🚀 Thank You!

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