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Important Message for Real Estate Brokers, Commercial Agents, and Property Owners

Finding commercial real estate buyers for property is not easy. You can spend many, many hours generating eligible leads. Then, once you find interested buyers, they may not have enough funds to invest in commercial property. And even if you manage to find the right fit, closing a deal make take several months due to countless intermediaries. This makes traditional real estate transactions stressful and inefficient. At the World Token Market, we can help solve these problems with a comprehensive all-in-one solution for commercial real estate investing by creating digital shares that represent the value of the property you're selling.…
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August 10, 2020
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Why Real Estate Investors Don’t Like Syndications: Enter Tokenization!

There’s nothing like investing in commercial real estate. So many dream of owning large office buildings, medical complexes, retail sites, high rise mixed use projects, and multifamily properties. The problem is that most of these people don’t have the resources to take down any of these projects on their own, as many project developments run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. So how can investors still take part in these deals? The answer is through real estate syndication. With a top-level view of a syndicate, the real estate “sponsor” finds the property, sets up all the offering documents, then…
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January 17, 2020
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Got Assets? Tokenize them on the Blockchain to Provide Liquidity to Your Investors

Real estate... paintings... diamonds... company stock... all asset classes are beginning to be tokenized thanks to the magic of blockchain technology. And I promise you, if you’ve never heard of tokenization as a means of crowdfunding your projects, you soon will – and you’ll wonder why it’s taken you so long! Tokenization is basically the process of converting the rights of real assets into digital tokens, essentially fractionalizing an investment type to make it more accessible and more attractive to the interests of investors. Take for example, a $600 million luxury hotel project. Security Tokens can be issued which will…
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November 7, 2019
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PODCAST: How Blockchain Technology Relates to the Three “L”s in Real Estate: Liquidity, Liquidity, Liquidity

The best part of equity tokenization of real estate assets (or any asset for that matter) is that it provides a path for enhanced liquidity for investors while increasing the efficiency and transparency of trading on a secondary market. This liquidity factor previously did not exist before blockchain technology. Listen to this podcast where Kris Ferranti – a partner with the global law firm Shearman and Sterling – explains how blockchain unlocks the liquidity of real estate investments and how he is spearheading his firm’s blockchain and tokenization efforts with their “Fintech Foundry Initiative”. Listen to "How Blockchain Technology Relates…
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October 9, 2019
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Real Estate Platform Earn.re to Streamline Investor Onboarding with Blockchain-enabled Smartphone App

Earn.re, a blockchain-based commercial real estate (CRE) financing platform, has signed a licensing agreement for Globex’s Ethereum-based KYC/AML compliance solutions to onboard and verify the platform’s investors through a company branded smartphone app. Read the full press release here. Through the licensing agreement, Globex will supply Earn with an onboarding app customized to match Earn’s brand which will be made available to the platform's investors on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Then upon submission, user details will be automatically screened against Globex’s proprietary database global sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), watchlists, and known fraudulent Ethereum wallets. Earn…
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October 8, 2019
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Real Estate Companies are Turning to Blockchain Technology and Tokenization

How long will it take for blockchain technology to completely disrupt the real estate industry as we know it today? Some say quite a while, but in reality, it's happening right now. Many in the real estate world are beginning to realize how powerful this technology can be, mostly due to the aspect of greater trust and transparency of records and transactions. Blockchain distributed ledger technology also makes the entire process of real estate recording faster, much more efficient, and less costly. Then add the concept of tokenization, and you have a means to make liquid an investment vehicle previously…
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August 29, 2019
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Blockchain Tokenization Explained

Tokenization is technology that's poised to transform capital markets and the way companies raise money through crowdfunding. It is simply a process whereby some form of asset is converted into tokens which can be moved, recorded or stored on a blockchain network. Blockchain allows the sharing of files and digital assets without generating duplicate copies, and for this reason, all transactions on the blockchain are secure and immutable. Blockchain works on a peer-to-peer basis where each transaction is recorded into a block without the need for any third party - which is why it's the backbone on which cryptocurrency like…
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August 14, 2019
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Four Benefits Tokenization Provides to Commercial Real Estate

Why should those involved in the commercial real estate industry consider tokenization as a means to raise capital for their projects? There are many, but four major ones stand out that make the idea of tokenization on the blockchain both durable and scalable. 1) The first and most important benefit for most investors is that tokenization provides liquidity, which was previously unheard of in the realm of real estate investments. Through Security Tokens and the creation of digital assets, liquidity via a secondary market can be created to provide around-the-clock access to a global marketplace along with low barriers to…
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August 13, 2019
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Tokenization Is Democratizing Real Estate Crowdfunding with Blockchain Technology

How much potential is there in blockchain? Consider the story of the Long Island Ice Tea Company who changed their name to the Long Island Blockchain Corp – and their stock jumped 200% on the news! Now it’s the real estate industry’s turn. Using blockchain technology to record property ownership may revolutionize real estate as we know it today. The best part of this blockchain application is that the entire industry can now be tokenized, allowing real estate – or fractions of a piece of real estate – to be easily bought and sold in a liquid marketplace via security token offerings in…
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August 12, 2019
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FinTech is All About the Compliant Tokenization of Securities, Today!

Blockstack recently became one of the first blockchain-based Security Token Offerings under Reg.A+ crowdfunding officially qualified by the SEC. The company is seeking to raise $28 million through tokenization by offering their securities to the public. Many other companies are in the process of doing the same. It’s new, and like everything else that’s new, it gets scary – but scary or not, tokenization is happening, today, and your company better look into it if you don’t want to be left behind by technology as Security Token Offerings begin to go mainstream. Blockchain technology makes the tokenization of formerly illiquid…
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August 9, 2019