Integra, a real estate-focused, full-stack Layer 1 blockchain, has officially emerged, revealing that over $12 billion in managed real estate assets are already anchored to its ecosystem through a consortium of global partners across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
Designed as the foundation layer for real estate, Integra aims to bring speed, transparency, and liquidity to a $400 trillion market that remains largely fragmented, illiquid, and offline.
The Challenge: Real Estate's Lagging Digital Transformation
Despite representing 75% of global wealth, real estate operates in silos. Transactions take months, valuations are opaque, and ownership data is trapped across registries and intermediaries. While financial markets have evolved into high-frequency ecosystems, real estate continues to lag, creating inefficiencies in capital flow, asset discovery, and liquidity creation.
“Every industry has found its way to the internet. Real estate hasn’t. Geography, intermediaries, and paperwork still govern it. That’s what we’re solving.”
This sentiment highlights the core problem Integra seeks to address: the lack of digital integration in the real estate sector.
Integra: A New Foundation for Real Estate Digitization
Integra is purpose-built to transform real estate into a digitally native, programmable asset class. Instead of retrofitting real-world assets onto general-purpose blockchains, Integra’s architecture has been designed around how property, capital, and compliance naturally interact in the real world.
Key Components of Integra's Chain Structure:
- •Asset Operating System: A set of tools and standards synchronizing technical and operational complexity into a unified digital framework while providing a more inclusive, “web2” environment for end users.
- •Trust Layer: Ensures every asset carries verifiable documentation, attestation, and audit trails embedded into the chain’s native public utility.
- •Liquidity Layer: Enables cross-platform trading and settlement of real estate-backed tokens, compliant by design.
- •Stable: A novel native stablecoin to power real estate liquidity and capture inherent volume.
This structure enables participants, ranging from developers and funds to banks and marketplaces, to build, tokenize, and exchange assets with the same ease as digital securities.
A Global Consortium Anchoring Significant Assets and Flows
Integra's ecosystem has quietly formed around a coalition of leading real estate, finance, and technology organizations that collectively manage over $12 billion in real estate assets. This positions Integra not only as the largest real estate chain but also as the largest Real World Assets chain, exceeding the current RWA value on Ethereum.
This consortium contributes verified asset flows, legal structuring, and digital infrastructure across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring that Integra launches as an institutional-grade network with substantial real-world depth. Furthermore, these assets, once tokenized on the chain, are associated with underlying financial activities such as rent, dividends, purchase, and exits, estimated at approximately $100 million and $500 million, respectively. Capturing this activity on-chain is expected to create positive flywheel effects that could kickstart a meaningful economy. Every rental payment or exit would generate new float and capital for reinvestment, attracting more asset managers and sellers.
These flows also create a larger surface area for fees for a blockchain, whether via gas or natively built applications. Stablecoins are also emerging as a new monetization strategy, with companies like Stripe and Phantom launching their own versions.
Strategic Timing for Market Transformation
Global real estate turnover is under 0.25% of its total value annually, a stark contrast to equities (1x) and crypto markets (5x). If real estate were to achieve even 5% of crypto’s efficiency, its annual tradable volume would exceed $100 trillion.
The convergence of tokenization standards, digital custody, and regulatory maturity has created the opportune moment for this shift to begin. Integra is positioned as the infrastructure layer enabling this transformation, bridging traditional asset managers with the burgeoning on-chain economy.
In the coming months, Integra plans to unveil its public testnet, early developer integrations, and its first institutional tokenization pilots. The project's long-term goal is to make property ownership, financing, and exchange as frictionless as trading any digital asset, globally, compliantly, and instantly.
About Integra
Integra is a next-generation full-stack Layer 1 blockchain built specifically for real estate. Designed around principles of trust, compliance, and interoperability, it enables the tokenization, trading, and management of real-world assets at scale. Backed by a global consortium of real estate and technology leaders representing over $12 billion in assets, Integra serves as the foundational layer for the digital future of property and capital markets.