Blockchain: an emerging opportunity for surveyors?
Published February 2020
Reissued September 2024
Every so often a revolutionary digital break-through emerges. The most recent being a technology allowing a decentralised, reliable and verifiable record of transactions, which is maintained across multiple computers using peer-to-peer networking and cryptography – blockchain.
This practice information provides a balanced view of the outlook for blockchain, its application to the real estate, built and natural environment and construction industries, and what it could mean for RICS members and RICS-regulated firms looking to stay at the forefront of innovation.
This document was reissued in September 2024 as practice information. It had previously been published in February 2020 as an insight paper. No material changes have been made to the document.