Smart Contracts in Land Administration

Smart Contracts in Land Administration

VP Todd Miller together with co-authors Rohan Bennett and Mark Pickering from Swinburne University of Technology (AUS) and Al-Karim Kara, the President and CEO of the Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (CA) published a paper “Hybrid Approaches for Smart Contracts in Land Administration: Lessons from Three Blockchain Proofs-of-Concept” in the journal Land. The paper is based on ChromaWay land innovation projects in Sweden, Australia, and Canada. The…

Residential Real Estate Securitization Through 
the Eyes of the Blockchain

Residential Real Estate Securitization Through the Eyes of the Blockchain

Back in 2016, as I was about to leave Fannie Mae [https://www.fanniemae.com], the company was developing a securitization platform with its primary competitor, Freddie Mac.  Today the Common Securitization Platform (the firms aren’t known for their creative branding) issues a uniform mortgage-backed security (UMBS).  Mortgage-backed securities are an investment instrument backed by the cash flow of pools of residential mortgages. The new security is aimed primarily…

Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain): The Future of Land Titling and Registry Project Overview

Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain): The Future of Land Titling and Registry Project Overview

[Please note that this article was originally published on LAC PropertyChain official website [https://www.lacpropertychain.com]] The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has engaged ChromaWay [https://chromaway.com/] on a two-year project in Peru, Paraguay, and Bolivia on an initiative titled “Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain): The Future of Land Titling and Registry.” [https://www.iadb.org/en/project/RG-T3356] The primary goal of the project is to evaluate how blockchain…

ChromaWay is, for the second time, recognized as one of the best startups in Sweden

ChromaWay is, for the second time, recognized as one of the best startups in Sweden

For the second consecutive year, ChromaWay [https://chromaway.com] is nominated as one of the best startups in Sweden. Ny Teknik 33-list [https://www.nyteknik.se/special/33-listan-2020-har-ar-sveriges-basta-teknikstartups-7000865] is a prestigious startup list which nominates Sweden's best, most innovative tech startups that have a potential to disrupt the industries they work in and thus can be called tomorrow's tech stars. The list is composed annually by…