ROTD: Tokenized Title Platform, Self-Sovereignty, Tokenized Securities, Title Token for Blockchain Estate Registry

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Real Estate Blockchain Firm Ubitquity to Build Tokenized Title Platform

Having tokens represent a property, along with records of conveyance stored on a blockchain, creates “huge efficiencies for the abstract process.”
With the technology closing agents can better avoid fraud since there is only a single source of truth and reconciliation is no longer needed.

Mobile DeFi and the Shift Toward Self-Sovereignty

Many speculate that mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency is dependent solely on improving ease of access and user experience. In reality, there’s an even bigger obstacle: a mentality shift.
Self-sovereignty and personal autonomy are the endgame of this technology, and with that goal comes a significant increase in personal responsibility for one’s funds.
The legacy system takes away your autonomy and replaces it with convenience, offering useful tools related to fraud protection and password management. By comparison, cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance and other forms of distributed technology fall on the other end of that spectrum, providing the ability to have true ownership of one’s worth.
The liberating elements of crypto and financial freedom are promising but intimidating since security is passed from the hands of a third party directly into the hands of the consumer.
Crypto, DeFi and decentralized applications promise to fulfill the original vision of our connected future, in which users could retain absolute ownership of their funds as they transacted in a global market.
The key here is offering familiar experiences in line with best practices in crypto security so that the difficult but absolutely necessary shift in mentality is made more palatable.
The decision to be personally responsible for one’s own wealth should be a burden of diligence, not of exhausting learning experiences.

Russia Is Set to Create a New Regime for Tokenized Securities

According to the new (Russian) law, digital financial assets, or DFAs, represent digital rights, including monetary claims, the possibility of exercising rights under issuable securities, the right to participate in the capital of a nonpublic joint-stock company, and the right to demand the transfer of issuable securities.
In a broad sense, this means that DFAs are tokenized securities.
Basically, the new Russian law regulates the issuance, turnover and offering of tokenized assets.
DFAs can be only issued on licensed issuance platforms that are operating in full compliance with incredibly strict regulations.
It’s ironic that with all this time spent to create crypto regulation, there is no crypto regulation. However, Russian legislators managed to create a clear approach to the regulation of tokenized securities.

Title Token for Blockchain Estate Registry, Part 3

Discussing cross-blockchain protocol that enables the use of ledgers in an interoperable bundle.
The protocol works as an aggregator of tokens across blockchains.
The resulting representation of the collected tokens is a logical superstructure across many blockchains — the public registry.
A government agency, for example, doesn’t exclusively own one public property database, but it literally lives on every user’s machine in the cross-blockchain database.
A component of governance to address legal issues and enforce lawful decisions – in Title Token for Blockchain Estate Registry, Part 2
Three fundamental principles for decentralization: Technological pluralism. Technological neutrality. Blockchain agnostic.
There must be verified digital identities, but without exposing personal data on-chain at the same time. And the answer to that is the combination of old and new technologies.
Blockchain technology is the perfect solution to develop a new generation of public key infrastructure (PKIs). Think about public certificates as tokens. Similar to creating tokens (certificates) of property, we can also create tokens to certify our identity. If you lose your private key, you will need to contact your certificate authority and ask to update its token of your identitiy (certificate) as invalid.
To reduce the risks of leaks of personal data from centralized servers, we should use self-sovereign identities.
Credible public blockchains provide immutable ledgers, which, contrary to traditionally state-owned property registries, enable users to perform peer-to-peer transactions.
However, blockchains do not require any public agency to maintain the infrastructure, as public ledgers are self-governed.

Title tokens are records that represent legal rights. They are validated on-chain by those whom we trust and delegate this right.

Contrary to the centralized system, ledgers require everything to be recorded on-chain publicly to take effect, and they do not alter recorded transactions. So, on-chain governance is transparent and accountable.
This concept can be piloted step-by-step and run parallel to the existing system of public registries.
The shift will happen when the government that wants to benefit from innovations recognizes the right of citizens to choose between a traditional registry and a blockchain, and it is a fundamental right for the decentralization of governance.