SkyTrade: Building The World's First Air Rights Market I Jonathan Dockrell, Skytrade
This week, Sal and Dave sit down with Jonathan Dockrell from SkyTrade - a highly innovative project which is creating a marketplace for property owners to sell the Air Rights above their properties. There are numerous sources of demand for this space, from drone delivery companies to real estate development - with it being estimated to be worth $30 Tn, and yet many owners are not even aware that they own this highly desirable space. SkyTrade utilises novel RWA tokenization techniques on the Solana blockchain as well as a Depin-based Drone tracking app to bring into the light a previously opaque and illiquid asset class. - - Episode Resources Follow Jonathan : https://Twitter.com/droneevtol Follow SkyTrade : https://Twitter.com/SkyTradeNetwork 'Flying Car' Substack : https://flyingcar.sky.trade/ - - Podcast Resources Follow Sal: https://twitter.com/salxyz Follow Dave: https://twitter.com/SolBeachBum Follow Zen : https://twitter.com/ZenLlama Follow Unlayered: https://twitter.com/UnlayeredPod Subscribe on Spotify, Apple, or Google: https://unlayered.io/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UnlayeredPod - - Time Stamps (0:00) - Why Focus on Creating a Market for Air Rights (4:36) - What's Holding Back the Drone Delivery Industry (8:37) - Real Estate Use Cases for Air Space (11:22) - Estimating a TAM for Air Rights (21:24) - Building Out a Depin-Based Drone Tracking App (25:46) - Existing State of Air Rights Market (29:32) - How to Abstract Away Heterogeneity of Each Product (32:01) - Views on Crypto Coming From Web2 Background (40:56) - Reactions to the Project (43:51) - When Can We Expect Flying Cars (49:05) - Future of Drone Delivery Market (52:20) - Looking Ahead for SkyTrade