Frequently Asked Questions

Blockchain property records are cryptographic fingerprints of home and land title documents written to a public blockchain. The blockchain does not replace the county recorder or home title issuer — it creates a tamper-evident parallel record that anyone can independently verify, timestamp, and audit without trusting a single database owner.

Yes, but not the way most people imagine. Today you buy a house onchain by purchasing tokens that represent membership in an LLC that legally owns the deed. Platforms like Propy, Roofstock onChain, Lofty, and RealT structure transactions this way, and the deed itself is still filed at the county.

A blockchain hash of a deed has evidentiary value in most US states, but the county recorder's paper or electronic filing is still the authoritative legal record. Several states (Arizona, Vermont, Wyoming) have passed laws recognizing blockchain records as admissible evidence.

Tokenized real estate is property whose ownership is represented by digital tokens on a blockchain. In every US-legal structure the property is held by an LLC and the tokens represent LLC membership interests, so transferring the token transfers legal ownership of the entity that holds the deed.

A land title records ownership of real property; a home title records ownership of the dwelling or structure, and for manufactured homes is typically issued by a state DMV or title agency. On a blockchain, both can be hashed or tokenized, but the legal record-keeper and recording rules differ — so a home title pilot and a land registry pilot are not interchangeable.

The Republic of Georgia runs the longest-standing national blockchain land registry, anchoring millions of records to Bitcoin. Cook County (Illinois), South Burlington (Vermont), and Wyoming have all run US pilots focused on land records. Home title pilots are emerging for manufactured and modular housing records. Sweden, Honduras, and Zambia have also tested implementations at the national level.

Blockchain anchoring makes any change to a deed detectable in seconds. Because the document's hash is written to a public ledger, an altered version produces a different hash and instantly fails verification. It cannot stop a forged filing from being submitted, but it makes any alteration after the fact provable.

A tokenized deed transfers legal ownership of a property via an LLC that holds the deed — buying the token buys the LLC. An NFT of a house is often just an image or a claim with no enforceable link to the underlying real estate. The difference is legal wrapper and custody.

Most US-facing platforms require KYC and offer securities under Reg D 506(c) or Reg S. You create an account, complete accreditation or eligibility checks, fund with fiat or stablecoin, and receive tokens representing LLC membership. Rental yields are typically paid weekly or monthly in stablecoin.