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Programmable Cadastral Institutions for Informal Land Rights

Original title: Programmable Cadastral Institutions: Land Rights and Sovereign Data for Informal Settlements

Ethereum Foundation 23:13 0 views on YouTube ETH +1.9%

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Summary

Informal settlements house roughly a billion people, most without legal claim to the land they occupy. Existing titling programmes based on de Soto’s formalisation thesis have mixed results, and blockchain land registries often repeat centralized assumptions. The talk introduces programmable cadastral institutions, a framework being developed through an Ethereum Foundation PhD Fellowship 2026 with the International Center for Community Land Trusts. Fieldwork is planned with the Development Action Group in Cape Town, and comparative desk research is underway on Puerto Rico, Brazil and India. The framework combines community governance, adjustable verification thresholds and legal recognition with sovereign relational data, allowing land claims to reside in household‑controlled stores with minimal, unlinkable evidence on‑chain, avoiding a public map of ownership.

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Key points

  1. Informal settlements house roughly a billion people, most lacking legal land claims
  2. Programmable cadastral institutions are being developed via an Ethereum Foundation PhD Fellowship 2026 with the International Center for Community Land Trusts
  3. Fieldwork is planned with the Development Action Group in Cape Town and case research is being done on Puerto Rico, Brazil and India
  4. The framework stores land claims in household‑controlled stores with minimal, unlinkable on‑chain evidence, avoiding a public map of ownership

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