Justice Ministry explores blockchain-based land registry, real-estate tokenization, and a broader shift toward digital public infrastructure
Georgia is taking another significant step toward digitizing its public services, signing a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore on-chain property rights and tokenized real estate. The initiative marks the country’s latest move to modernize public administration using blockchain technology.
The Ministry of Justice confirmed that it has entered an MoU with Hedera, a public blockchain network that operates through permissioned nodes. During a meeting between Justice Minister Paata Salia and Hedera representatives, officials outlined plans to study how blockchain could be integrated into national registries and future digital government systems.
According to the ministry, transferring data from the National Agency of Public Registry to an immutable ledger could strengthen property-rights protection, improve transparency, and enhance process reliability. Authorities are also evaluating the tokenization of real estate, aligning with the global trend of bringing real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain.
Meeting between the Ministry of Georgia and Hedera representative. Source: Ministry of Justice of Georgia
“Georgia’s willingness to test real-estate tokenization positions it ahead of many European peers.”
For now, the MoU remains nonbinding. The next stage involves forming joint working groups composed of blockchain specialists and government officials to assess technical and regulatory pathways.
This initiative builds on Georgia’s earlier blockchain experiments. In 2017, the government moved more than 100,000 property records to the Bitcoin blockchain as part of an early land-registry modernization effort. Since then, various political and technical groups have proposed additional blockchain-based public-service models.
More recently, the country’s central bank held discussions with global payment-technology providers as it explores digital-currency pilots and broader economic digitization.
With the new Hedera collaboration, Georgia signals that on-chain governance and digitized property systems may be central pillars of its next wave of modernization.
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