Parcl: Real Estate Exposure on Solana - The Next Billion #32 Full Episode

How Can Real-World Assets Like Real Estate Boost DeFi Adoption? In this episode of The Next Billion podcast, George Harrap is joined by Kellan Grenier from Parcl, a DeFi platform that allows users to invest or trade the price movements of real estate markets worldwide. They discuss Kellan's crypto journey, from early encounters with Bitcoin to co-founding Parcl, and why he was drawn to the transformative power of crypto. Kellan mentions that as Parcl grows, the team aims to make real estate investments more accessible to a non-crypto-savvy audience by offering a novel product with real-world utility, thereby driving the next phase of adoption for DeFi. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 00:45 Origin Story 04:06 Why Crypto 06:19 Liquidity in Real Estate? 14:00 Genesis of Parcl 17:04 Robust Data Sources 26:49 Developments with Parcl 28:52 New Markets? 31:36 Parcl's User Acquisition 33:36 Future of DeFi 37:18 What's Next for Parcl? 38:06 Ending Notes