Land Registry Using a Distributed Ledger

Abstract

Land registration is a system that provides landowners with land titles secured by the government. Zimbabwe has no electronic system for keeping land registry records. Developing a system that automates, and keeps the land registry records immutable, is possible by creating a blockchain system that stores all the transactions made during the process. The immutability nature of blockchain offers plenty of security features that will protect the system from hacking and other malpractices from intruders. It uses strong cryptographic protocols and standards to secure the records stored in a block of data thus making it more reliable for the land registry to transfer the land ownership from a seller to a new buyer. This paper presents a system based on a Hyperledger Fabric distributed ledger that will record, store real-time transactions made during the process of land registration, thus decreasing the cases of fraud as immutable transactions are being stored in the permissioned distributed ledger network.