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Grant Cardone plans to tokenize Cardone Capital’s $5B real estate portfolio on blockchain, chasing liquidity and market dominance in a fast-moving space. Grant Cardone is making a move that few real estate moguls have dared to try at this scale. Cardone Capital, his multi-family and commercial property firm, is preparing to tokenize its entire portfolio. That’s five billion dollars worth of real estate heading to the blockchain. As CoinDesk reported, Cardone shared the plan on X, saying the firm wants to hand investors “collateral and liquidity in the secondary markets.” He went further, saying Cardone Capital aims to become a market leader in tokenizing assets at scale. That is a bold claim in a space that is still figuring out its own rules. You might also like: Wall Street Goes All-In on Bitcoin: Custody, ETFs, Trading This is not Cardone’s first step into digital assets. His firm bought 1,000 BTC in June and has been clear about plans to keep adding bitcoin to its balance sheet. Before that, CoinDesk had already flagged that Cardone Capital was looking to use real estate cash flow to fund its bitcoin buys. The tokenization plan sits right on top of that strategy. Big Names Are Circling the Same Idea Cardone is not alone in this. Not even close. The Trump Organization is tokenizing loan revenue tied to a resort project in the Maldives. Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital, which manages over $125 billion, has said it is ready to tokenize but keeps running into U.S. regulatory walls. These are not small players testing the water. According to CoinDesk on X, the case for tokenizing real estate rests on what blockchain does well: cleaner ownership records, faster trading, and quicker settlement. But a report from EY pointed to the same problems that keep coming up. Regulation…

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