SmartWill

SmartWill

Decentralized Land Registration

Created on 15th June 2025

SmartWill

SmartWill

Decentralized Land Registration

The problem SmartWill solves

Usually, traditional land records are vulnerable to tampering, fake documents due to any centralised authority handling those physical documents. Not just fraudulent activities, even multiple buyers .manual verification and legal processes take months or even some years for legal processing.

In India, especially in the previous year, nearly staggering 66% of civil cases are related to land disputes, and it costs nearly ₹1.3 lakh crore economically and the average duration for registering a land document is suspected to be 57 days as per a government survey... Tribal lands and under-civilised rural lands can take several days to get registered...

Here our SMART-WILL platform enhanced with Blockchain’s immutability, ensures easy land registration, assests ownership transfer and history maintains which cannot be altered, and NFT-based digital assets ownership transfer with a single transaction also helps in reducing scams in tampering physical documents...

Land Registration: User can register their owned lands by simply providing all the necessary required data like land MC(mother certificate), its latitude, longitude, acres by sq.km and other required details.

Ownership transfer and History maintenance: the property owner can sell its land by just inputting the recipient's wallet address... The land's ownership history will hold everything.

Inheritance: Owner can write their own smart-will by appointing it's heir for all it's property... This can also be done by entering the heir's wallet address and name.

DAO Support: If a land dispute occurs between family members or someothers then it will taken to the DAO's concern by anyone commit with that dispute, The DAO's will vote on the land property and it'll favour anyone among that competetors.

AI Agent: We also built and attached an AI which will guide the platform's user by answering to their querries, its also developed with multi-lingual functionalities including languages like English, Telugu, Tamil, Urdu, etc...

Challenges we ran into

While developing this platform, we underwent several challenges like NFT transfer, ownership history on-chain storage, etc...

NFT Transfer: We suffered a lot with NFT transferring to the recipient after minting NFT successfully. Later on, we underwent a guidelines post from X (twitter) and solved this successfully.

Ownership history conflict: The land's ownership history is first shown only the current holder, but after multiple effects of coding, we built that feature that perfectly shows every one of its previous owners and the current one.

DAO decision making: DAO voting during disputes introduced latency in resolving cases, especially when voters were inactive or not knowledgeable about the local context. So, my team introduced weighted voting rights and reputation scores for DAO participants based on their past accuracy and participation.

Multi-Lingual AI Agent Development: Never did before but successfully achieved that... We added English, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu as of now. Literally, it took nearly more than 12 hours but we completed it.

Tracks Applied (6)

Ethereum Track

India’s land registration system is broken, riddled with fraud, inefficiency, and disputes—66% of civil cases stem from ...Read More
ETHIndia

ETHIndia

Web3

India’s land registration system is plagued by fraud, inefficiency, and disputes, with 66% of civil cases arising from p...Read More
Lords Institute of Engineering and Technology

Lords Institute of Engineering and Technology

GEN AI&ML

The SMART-WILL platform effectively fits into the AI Track by integrating an intelligent, multilingual AI agent that ser...Read More

Blockchain & Web3

This SMART-WILL platform fits strongly into the Blockchain track as it directly utilises blockchain's core strengths to ...Read More

Open Innovation

The SMART-WILL platform is a strong fit for the Open Innovation Track because it tackles a critical public problem—land ...Read More

Best use of GitHub

SmartWill, a blockchain-based solution revolutionizing India’s flawed land registration system, was developed by a team ...Read More

GitHub

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