Integra Partners with SettleMint to Power Real Estate Tokenization Across UAE and U.S.

Integra, an AI-powered blockchain platform focused on real estate markets, has partnered with SettleMint to support the compliant issuance and management of tokenized property assets across the UAE and the United States.

The partnership, formalized through a memorandum of understanding, will integrate Integra’s AI-powered real estate ecosystem with SettleMint’s Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP), creating infrastructure for the issuance, management, and compliance oversight of tokenized real estate assets.

The agreement establishes a framework through which projects entering the Integra ecosystem can access SettleMint’s tokenization platform, implementation services, and fiat-based licensing capabilities, depending on the requirements of individual deployments.

AI-driven real estate meets tokenization infrastructure

The collaboration brings together two distinct technology layers.

Integra has developed a real estate ecosystem powered by agentic AI capable of facilitating property transactions, negotiations, and management activities on-chain. The platform is also designed to interact with tokenized real estate securities and digital ownership structures.

SettleMint, meanwhile, provides the underlying infrastructure required to manage digital assets throughout their lifecycle, including issuance, permissions, compliance workflows, administration, and ongoing asset management.

Piyush Gupta, Core Contributor at Integra said that integrating both platforms creates an end-to-end framework addressing liquidity, transparency, and operational efficiency in real estate markets.

SettleMint President Matthew Van Niekerk said real estate remains “the most valuable asset class in the world”, while noting that property titles and ownership structures remain in paper-based and pre-digital systems. He added that transaction processes are highly inefficient and require manual inspection and notarial workflows, and emphasized that tokenization requires full lifecycle systems rather than isolated issuance tools.

Together, the companies aim to deliver a framework capable of supporting tokenized real estate markets while addressing the regulatory and operational requirements associated with real-world assets.

Moving beyond token issuance

As tokenization adoption expands, industry participants increasingly view asset issuance as only one component of the broader infrastructure stack required for real-world asset markets.

Managing tokenized real estate requires systems capable of handling ownership changes, compliance checks, corporate actions, permissions, reporting obligations, and jurisdiction-specific requirements throughout an asset's lifecycle.

SettleMint's platform is designed to address these operational requirements while supporting deployment models across multiple jurisdictions, including the UAE and the United States.

For Integra, the partnership provides a structured pathway to evaluate and deploy tokenization infrastructure as part of its broader real estate digitization strategy.

Real estate emerges as a key tokenization opportunity

The partnership comes amid growing institutional interest in real-world asset tokenization, particularly within the real estate sector.

According to Boston Consulting Group's 2026 report on digital assets in finance, alternative asset tokenization—including real estate and private credit—could account for between 25% and 30% of all tokenized assets by 2035.

The sector has attracted increasing attention from governments, financial institutions, and technology providers seeking to improve market accessibility, operational efficiency, and transparency through blockchain-based ownership frameworks.

Both companies said the joint solution is intended to support public- and private-sector initiatives seeking to develop compliant and scalable real estate tokenization models across global markets.

UAE and U.S. remain strategic markets for tokenization

The agreement reflects growing momentum around tokenized real estate infrastructure in both the Gulf region and North America, where regulators and industry participants are increasingly exploring blockchain-based ownership and settlement mechanisms.

While tokenization activity has historically focused on digitizing ownership interests, the next phase of market development is expected to center on lifecycle management, compliance automation, and interoperability across jurisdictions.

The partnership positions both companies within this emerging infrastructure layer, as competition intensifies among technology providers seeking to build the operational foundations for institutional-grade real-world asset markets.