The problem ZK Estate solves

Traditional apartment rental processes often involve various intermediaries, paperwork, and potential trust issues between landlords and tenants. ZK Estate addresses these challenges by leveraging blockchain technology and tokenization to streamline the rental process and enhance security and transparency.

Elimination of Intermediaries: ZK Estate removes the need for intermediaries such as real estate agents or rental platforms, allowing landlords and tenants to interact directly. This eliminates costly fees associated with intermediaries, resulting in cost savings for both parties.

Enhanced Security and Transparency: By utilizing blockchain technology, ZK Estate ensures that rental transactions are secure, transparent, and tamper-proof. Tenant data is securely stored as metadata on minted tokens, protecting their personal information. The immutable nature of the blockchain provides a reliable record of transactions, reducing the risk of fraud or disputes.

Efficient Tenant Selection: ZK Estate simplifies the tenant selection process for landlords. Through the evaluation of minted tokens, landlords can review tenant information and choose the most suitable candidate. This eliminates the need for time-consuming and subjective application reviews, enabling landlords to make informed decisions quickly.

Streamlined Rental Process: With ZK Estate, the rental process becomes more streamlined and efficient. Landlords can create offers with all relevant details, and tenants can mint tokens with their personal information. The status change of tokens to "accepted" triggers the burning of other minted tokens, ensuring clarity and simplicity in the rental agreement.

Trust and Reputation Building: ZK Estate incorporates a comprehensive rating system for both landlords and tenants, enabling participants to establish a trustworthy reputation within the platform. This incentivizes good behavior and fosters a community of reliable renters and trustworthy landlords.

Challenges we ran into

https://github.com/noskodmi/my-estate-app
https://github.com/noskodmi/zkestate-rentalnft
The most challenging thing for us was designing everything to solve real life problems with the most inovative (not always well documented ;)) technologies