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Georgia’s Ministry of Justice has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hedera to explore moving the country’s property registry onchain, reviving the nation’s early experiments with blockchain-based public records.
The non-binding agreement, announced this week, would involve migrating land ownership data from Georgia’s National Agency of Public Registry to Hedera’s permissioned blockchain network. Officials say the initiative aims to improve transparency, strengthen property rights protection, and potentially enable real estate tokenization.
During a high-level meeting between Georgia’s Minister of Justice, Paata Salia, and Hedera representatives, officials discussed how blockchain-integrated government infrastructure can improve public resource management and ensure more transparent administrative processes.
The Ministry said the initiative could involve migrating critical data from the National Agency of Public Registry onto Hedera’s blockchain.
This move, according to the government, “would ensure even greater protection of property rights, transparency and reliability of processes.”
Industry experts say the effort is part of a global push to anchor public infrastructure on decentralized networks. Sheila Warren, CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, noted earlier this year that Governments adopting blockchain for core processes signals a major structural shift in public administration transparency.
Georgia appears ready to lead that shift.
Beyond registry migration, Georgia is actively exploring real estate tokenization—a move aligned with rapidly expanding global real-world asset (RWA) markets. Officials say tokenized property could unlock new liquidity, strengthen legal clarity, and give citizens modern tools for managing ownership.
Hedera’s leadership welcomed the collaboration. Bill Miller, a leading advisor within the Hedera ecosystem, emphasized the significance of the MoU: Georgia’s commitment to blockchain-integrated government infrastructure reinforces the potential for enterprise-grade networks to transform how states handle public records, he said.
While the MoU is currently nonbinding, the next phase includes setting up joint technical working groups combining experts from Hedera, the Ministry of Justice, and the National Agency of Public Registry.
Georgia is no newcomer to digital public innovation. The country was among the earliest global adopters of government-grade blockchain solutions.
In 2017, Georgia shocked the international policy world by signing a landmark agreement to record property transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Within months, the Ministry had registered more than 100,000 property records onchain—long before today’s global tokenization boom.
Since then, efforts to advance blockchain-integrated government infrastructure have remained consistent. In 2023, the United National Movement coalition partnered with Rarilabs to test a public-sector blockchain framework.
Political debates have shaped which initiatives were ultimately implemented, but the momentum toward decentralized public architecture has continued.
Analysts say Georgia’s renewed partnership with Hedera may spark similar initiatives across Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
By embedding blockchain-integrated government infrastructure into national systems, the country could set a new global benchmark for transparent governance and digital accountability.
As Carla Reyes, a respected blockchain law scholar, recently stated, If governments want resilient public systems, integrating blockchain with legal registries is not optional—it’s inevitable.
Georgia’s strategic move suggests that inevitability is already here.
Georgia’s latest Hedera move is igniting a bold wave of innovation powered entirely by blockchain-integrated government infrastructure, positioning the nation as a global pacesetter in next-generation governance.
Officials say blockchain-integrated government infrastructure will not only secure land ownership but also modernize every layer of public recordkeeping.
Experts argue that blockchain-integrated government infrastructure could unlock unprecedented transparency, while critics admit the shift toward blockchain-integrated government infrastructuremarks a dramatic overhaul of outdated bureaucratic systems. Georgia, it seems, is ready to set the global bar.
