What I Learned This Week - 5.24.22
Web3 is like an onion, to understand it you need to explore all of its layers.
I’m sharing with whoever’s interested in what I learn as I try to remain clear-eyed about the opportunities for real estate and web3.
Did I miss important news or a great article this week? In the likely event I did, please shoot me an email (mark@hurstx.com) and let me know!
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This Week’s Musings
Perhaps the greatest opportunity for web3 lies in applications to real estate outside of the US. Much of the developing world lacks clarity of ownership, which inhibits financing. Building robust and reliable infrastructure to address this would be transformational for many economies.
Informative Articles I Read
NFTs Are A Privacy And Security Nightmare (Wired) - Thank you Jefferson Sanchez for suggesting this article to me. An absolute must read.
Decentralizing Society: Finding Web3’s Soul (Weyl, Ohlhover, Buterin) - Are soulbound tokens (SBTs) the next evolution?
50 Cryptocurrency And NFT Terms And Their Definition (Business Insider) - This was a helpful review of terms I’ve run across in the articles I’ve been reading.
What Will Crypto, NFTs, and DeFi Mean For The Real Estate Industry? (NAR) - Recorded webinar from a NAR (National Association of Realtors) Meetup.
Podcasts That I Listened To
Innovate Companies I Discovered
Parcl - A blockchain-based real estate investment platform.
Everyrealm - Everyrealm is one of the most active investors and developers of the metaverse real estate ecosystem.
Sqube - Buy and sell virtual real estate in the metaverse.
RedSwan - Tokenized commercial real estate marketplace.
Balcony - Balcony DAO merges real estate assets and crypto to create web3 enhanced assets. As a web3 investment bank, Balcony DAO provides crypto financing solutions for real world assets.
QuantmRE - Marketplace that uses real estate tokenization to help homeowners unlock equity in their homes and provide individualized investment opportunities for real estate investors.
InfiProjects - Blockchain-based collaboration platform for real estate projects.
DigiBuild - Construction management and data insights software that utilizes blockchain technology.
DelNorte | DTV - Global fintech company with blockchain-based software and hardware for property title ownership management.
KEYS Token - Hold KEYS to buy, sell, rent, and monetize real estate and luxury assets in the KEYS metaverse.
People to Know (Those I Met Or Connected With Who Are Much Smarter Than Me)
Teresa Grobecker - CEO of Real Estate Consortia (REC)
Daniele Denes - Advisor at Sqfcoin
Thomas Pan - NFT Evangelist
Anton Gloster - CEO of DTV
Web3 Announcements from Proptech Companies
Random But Important Things I Stumbled On
Avoid NFT Infringement: What You Need To Know (LinkedIn) - My friend J.D. Houvener drops some legal knowledge about intellectual property rights surrounding the NFT you might be about to mint.
Introducing Seaport Protocol - Opensea announces open smart contract protocol. Here’s to hoping this drives further innovation and adoption of NFTs.
Product Hunt’s Web3 Feed - Over 6K crypto products launched so far on Product Hunt!
NFT Calendar: Newest NFT Drops Today And This Week (Infostor) - Free upcoming NFT drops.