Matt's Weekly: Yael Tamar on Bringing Real Estate to the Blockchain

What’s up everyone! Yael Tamar is the co-CEO and co-founder of SolidBlock, which is bringing real estate to the blockchain, making ownership more democratic, open, transparent.

You’ve probably heard of other bite-size investments like fractional stock or real estate ownership, but bringing that fractional ownership onto the blockchain has even more benefits like allowing you to customize your loan-to-value and increasing liquidity.

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In this episode Yael and I talk:

• How tokenizing real estate onto the blockchain helps ordinary people
• Why tokenizing real estate increases liquidity and unlocks value
• A new rent-to-own model that will help working class people own equity in their own apartment complex
• How Yael's childhood and early adulthood in the Soviet Union influenced her entrepreneurship path
• Why Yael lives in Israel
• Where Yael falls on the crypto - centralized institution spectrum
• Where regulation of real assets is now and where it is headed
• How real asset tokenization is similar and different to decentralized finance (DeFi)
  

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