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ESTATE PROTOCOL WANTS YOU TO OWN LAND VIA NFTS, HERE’S HOW

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Co-founders Parv Prabhakar, Ryan Smith and Cody Coex Foo want to bring ownership
of real estate on blockchain through its native token and marketplace.
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Owning a home that is yours is a privilege. If you are a salaried individual
with not a lot, the options of achieving that milestone can be limited. You can
try everything—from saving up meticulously every month to taking on loans, but
getting there isn’t easy. 

Parv Prabhakar, Ryan Smith, and Cody Coex Foo, the founders of Estate
Protocol, noticed this too. They found that buying real estate was an
expensive, lengthy process which relied on outdated business practices involving
numerous middlemen. It wasn’t long before they realised that Web3 could
potentially solve this problem. 

> “We are trying to solve the inefficiencies in the real estate market by making
> real estate purchasing accessible for the rest of the 90% of the population
> and democratising the exclusive system which was previously limited to the
> elite class.” Parv tells The Decrypting Story. 

Growing up in a modest home, Parv learned that investing in real estate was
essential to build wealth. “I realised real estate investing was much more than
a financial safety net, I view it as an asset that can be sold in case of
hardship or way to build wealth,” he says. 

Pretty soon, he landed on the idea of splitting the cost of purchasing and
maintaining property among several people, otherwise referred to as fractional
ownership. Parv was only 19 when he thought of the idea as a writer at the
Indian crypto exchange WazirX. 

> “With fractionalising, we shift the power to a common man who can buy NFTs and
> get ownership,” Parv says. 

Once the idea was in place, the next logical step was to put together a team.
During his time at WazirX, Parv had met his other co-founders Ryan and Cody
online. Pretty soon, the three of them found themselves building Estate Protocol
together. 

Ryan looks after the real estate investment in the firm, while Cody handles the
business development.  In 2021, the startup raised $50,000 in the pre-seed
round. It is in the process to close $1 million in funding by  September this
year. 


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HOW FRACTIONALISATION OF NFT WORKS IN REAL ESTATE

This is the upside to investing in fractional NFTs. By splitting the costs among
several people, the amount of capital required to enter the market is lowered.
This makes investing in real estate accessible to even new investors.  

> “These fractionalised NFTs could be as low as $5 or $10. Investors can buy $5
> or $10 worth of Airbnb in the US,” says Parv. 


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Estate Protocol isn’t the only one putting fractional ownership to use. There
are several companies that extend this concept via NFTs, including Ekta
Blockchain, a crypto firm that raised $5 million in seed funding for
demonstrating how this would play out in the real world. However, Estate
Protocol things slightly differently. The company issues a native token, Brix,
that represents ownership of a given property. Owning a Brix token also gives
you access to share revenue with other owners on properties that are rented
out. 

For instance, let’s say you claim ownership of a popular Airbnb listed on Estate
Protocol and hold a certain amount of Brix, you can get a share of the revenue
that property generates every time it is rented out by someone. 

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GETTING ONTO THE PLATFORM

If you’re a seller looking to list your property with Estate Protocol, there are
a few things that need to be done. First, the company verifies the property with
their partners. Once everything checks out, the property is held by the firm in
a special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPV). Estate Protocol then mints an NFT
address linked to the owner of this entity, after which they can receive a
royalty every time it is sold. 

“So in effect, the minting of the NFT, or the turning of title from paper to
digital is free, but every subsequent sale of that NFT would give us a royalty,”
says Parv. 

But if you’re looking to get started on investing, things will look a little
different. Users visit the website and get their KYC done via a service called
Blockpass.

> “Blockpass will verify the investor’s documents, once the KYC is completed.
> Investors can visit our marketplace and check out a bunch of properties in
> different areas. It could be any type of property, it could be Airbnb in a
> tourist town of the US, or a data centre, or a warehouse run by Amazon,” he
> says. 

For now, Estate Protocol is piloting this NFT marketplace and is aiming to go
live in the next three months. Besides its own marketplace, the NFTs minted by
the firm can also be listed on third-party marketplaces like OpenSea  or those
compliant with Ethereum and Polygon.  

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DEFINING OWNERSHIP 

> In the US real estate market, those who buy real estate get warranty deeds — a
> physical document signed by both the buyer and seller. This grants title
> ownership to the buyer. 

This is how ownership is established via Estate Protocol: It ties up with local
title partner companies in every US jurisdiction. These title partner companies
then check the tokenised real estate and verify the validity of the title.
“Sellers can tokenize their title into an NFT and then list the NFT on our
marketplace,” says Parv. 

According to him, since the parameters vary across different jurisdictions in
the US, a title search can be conducted through deeds, land records, court
judgements that confirms the validity of the title.

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TREADING LEGAL BOUNDARIES 

Since Estate Protocol is registered in Delaware, it is required to comply with
the securities law in the US. “So our restriction on the supply side is that the
properties that we tokenize should be listed in the US. Hence we can't have
properties listed in India,” says Parv, adding that Indian users can still
invest in properties listed by them. 

For Estate Protocol, the journey isn’t limited to just the US. It is looking to
set up  an index of property tokens for popular neighborhoods.

> “For instance, lot of wealthy buy houses in Chelsea, London and so we plan to
> tokenise a range of properties in that neighbourhood, and let common people
> invest in the whole neighbourhood at once,” he adds.


Edited by Akanksha Sarma
Estate Protocol
Estate Protocol is democratising real estate investing using blockchain.


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WazirX
WazirX is a cryptocurrency exchange platform to buy and sell cryptocurrency.


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1. NISCHAL SHETTY

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3. SAMEER MHATRE

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OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for rare digital items and crypto
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2. DEVIN FINZER

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CRYPTOCURRENCY

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