Matthew Le Merle
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first heard Jul 2026
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And obviously you wouldn't want to own a token in a building, a fractional ownership of a big building, the Salesforce Tower, without you knowing whether everything else that needs to be done to Salesforce Tower occurs.
So tokenizing real estate ownership is much more complicated now
I think, than tokenizing dollars or ounces of gold.
So I'll stop there, Ryan.
I mean, if you want to double click on real estate, I'm happy to, and I don't really know where your audience is most interested, but what I can tell you with certainty is as part of the autonomous digital future that we're describing,
we will digitalize the ownership, proof of ownership of every asset, and that that will allow most assets, most asset classes, to be traded quicker, cheaper, and easier over the rails that we just spent 50 years building.
It is, it is, Ryan, and I'm going to interject a thought here for your audience because it's a little baffling to me.
Five and four and three years ago, there were a lot of people who were trying to kill blockchain, in America especially, and they were very powerful people, including our administration, the heads of some of our federal agencies, and a lot of senators and other folks.
And I never really understood it because the example you just gave, the average American
The biggest asset they'll ever own is their home, the apartment or the house.
And most Americans don't have a lot of money.
So it turns out that the average apartment or the average owned residence in America by an American citizen has a value of somewhere between $200,000 and $250,000.
Maybe a little bit more now.
My data might be a little bit out of date.
But let's say $250,000.
Each time they try and buy and sell their own house, it takes them 45 to 60 days minimum in the closing process.
But this is the shocker.
It costs them an average of $20,000 to trade a $250,000 property.
They lose 10% of the value of their home each time they try and buy and sell it.
And you would think,
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