Real Estate Blockchain Platform Joins University of British Columbia Research Collaboration
Mainstream media has caught on to the ways in which blockchain might revolutionize business processes. This extends to the way in which local municipalities manage land titles. One startup looking to solve the problem, UBITQUITY, recently joined the University of British Columbia blockchain research collaboration for blockchain and property recording. “Our team had the pleasure of meeting Victoria Lemieux (Associate Professor, Archival Science, iSchool, University of British Columbia – formerly with The World Bank) at a World Bank event last March, and since then we’ve been working with....
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