PlotX
Decentralizing Land. Democratizing Trust
Created on 2nd November 2025
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PlotX
Decentralizing Land. Democratizing Trust
The problem PlotX solves
Land ownership and verification in many regions still rely on manual, paper-based systems making them vulnerable to fraud, tampering, and corruption.
Disputes over unclear records form a major part of legal cases, often delaying transactions and government schemes.
Additionally, insurance and policy claims related to land (like disaster relief or crop insurance) often fail due to lack of digitally verified ownership.
PlotX addresses these issues by:
Creating tamper-proof, tokenized land records on the blockchain.
Enabling a multi-layer decentralized verification system (Patwari → DLR → Tehsildar).
Allowing smart contracts to automatically verify eligibility for insurance and policy claims.
This ensures that every land parcel is transparent, traceable, and trustworthy, reducing corruption, speeding up verification, and enabling autonomous, data-driven governance.
Challenges we ran into
Integrating Aptos with IPFS
Managing on-chain and off-chain data links was complex. Storing land-related metadata on IPFS and referencing it securely from Aptos required building a consistent hash-mapping structure and ensuring smooth retrieval during verification.
Backend Integration
Bridging the blockchain logic with our backend APIs was challenging. We had to design a middleware layer that could efficiently communicate between the smart contracts, database, and frontend ensuring real-time synchronization without compromising security.
Role-Based Smart Contracts in Move
Implementing multi-authority roles (Patwari, DLR, Tehsildar) in the Move language was a steep learning curve. We structured role-based access control within Move modules to ensure that only verified authorities could update or approve land records.
Through constant debugging, community research, and iterative testing, we overcame these challenges resulting in a secure, fully functional, and scalable land tokenization system.
Tracks Applied (2)
Build on Aptos
Aptos
Open Innovation
Technologies used