Can Blockchain Technologies Enhance Certainty in Land Dealings?

The research seeks to evaluate how blockchain technology could contribute to land dealings in Australia. With land dealings in Australia undertaken using the Torrens title system, a system underpinned by centralised land registries reinforced by governmental control. Conversely, blockchain technology emerges from open-source technology, promoted as decentralised governance, based on peer-to-peer interactions. Thus, the conceptual differences between blockchain technology and land administration highlight that the need for governance, but for govenrance to apply to blockchain, conditions must be met, that include governmental involvement for blockchain to safely contribute to certainty in land dealings in Australia.