Real Estate

Saudi Arabia just became the newest test bed for one of crypto's most ambitious real-world bets: turning physical property into blockchain-based digital tokens. On August 6, 2026, stablecoin issuer Tether announced that its tokenization platform, Hadron by Tether, will supply the technology behind a new institutional real estate tokenization push in the kingdom, working alongside two local partners. For...

Tokenized real-world assets hit $32B on-chain in 2026, but real estate is still worth just $202.7M. Here is what the numbers and the regulatory moves in Dubai and Hong Kong actually mean.

Crypto and real estate keep circling each other, and 2026 has turned that circling into real numbers. A new market report shows the broader trend of turning real-world assets into blockchain tokens has surged to over $32 billion in on-chain value. But when you look closer at real estate specifically, the picture is more nuanced: it is still one of the smallest slices of that pie, even as regulators in...

For years, tokenized real estate has been pitched as a way for ordinary investors to buy a slice of a rental property for a few hundred dollars, collect rent in digital dollars, and trade their stake whenever they want. RealT, one of the earliest and best-known platforms built on that promise, is now unwinding. The company confirmed this week that it has begun liquidating its entire U.S. property...

Tokenizing a building has never been the hard part. Getting a tokenized share of that building to behave like a real, compliant financial asset—one that a regulator, a bank, or a pension fund would actually accept—is where most real estate tokenization projects have stalled. A new partnership announced this week suggests the industry may finally be tackling that problem head-on. What was...