The Dubai government has started the pilot phase of a project that will convert real estate assets into digital tokens on the blockchain.
The Dubai Land Department (DLD), a government entity responsible for registering, organizing and promoting Dubai real estate, announced that it started the pilot phase of its real-estate tokenization project.
The project was launched in collaboration with the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) and the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), Dubai’s crypto regulator.
The token launch makes the DLD the first real-estate registration entity in the UAE to implement tokenization on property title deeds.
DLD expects the sector to grow $60 billion by 2033
In the announcement, the DLD said the initiative is expected to drive growth in real estate tokenization. The government agency predicts that its market value could reach over $16 billion by 2033. According to the agency, this represents 7% of Dubai’s total real estate transactions.
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