Opinion: Evan Kuhn, president of Delorean Labs
When car manufacturers develop a recent model, their fragmentary cycle of logistics and sales mean that even if the customer postpages the deposit, there are no possible or reliable methods of delivery for this car.
A willing car buyers can wait months and even years after paying the deposit, not knowing where they are in line for delivery. That is why the recent models are valued in the price of the stickers, when cars enter the market for the first time.
There was no solution in the industry-but tokenized reservations will open a market worth many dollars.
Broken logic of contemporary car reservations
Reserving a car model is extremely unskilled today. Car buyers pay huge markers when recent models are released from the plot because there is no prediction of production schedules.
The options are that if you want a recent car now, you have to pay a significant bonus compared to the sticker price, and if you intend to pay a uncomplicated sticker price, you have nothing to say or idea when you get a delivery of the car. How massive is this problem?
Recent hospitality APAC test He showed cancellation via Booking.com for 40% of revenues. For comparison, Expedia sees 24%, which suggests tens of billions of threatened worldwide, while ticket reselling platforms extract 30% of markers, leaving both artists and fans.
Car waiting lists remain even more cloudy. Dealers released buyers of USD 30,000–70, $ 000 000 USD markers On orders Ford F -150, showing a lucrative secondary market created entirely by informative asymmetry, even without a formal “black market”. Even production suffers, and 15-30% of the capacity is idle, according to McKinsey reportBecause diminutive companies do not have access to trading reservation systems.
Wise blockchain contracts elegantly solve problems related to information asymmetry. For example, toxled flat reservations may absorb deposits, enabling buyers free trade in their position, while developers maintain a constant sales rush.
The possibility of tokenization of the automotive industry in the amount of $ 50 billion
The automotive sector presents a convincing case of reservation token, in which Phantom waiting lists have long included offensive markers.
Tesli’s Cybertruck accumulated Over 1 million reservations, each of which is based on a feedback deposit of up to USD 250, which is over $ 200 million of dormant capital, which otherwise could supply the liquidity of the secondary market, and not store in corporate helmets.
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The tokenized reservation system would end such practices by clear enabling position in the queue, and producers sell a license fee on secondary transactions. The technical infrastructure already exists. The BMW-capitalic investment unit has intensively invested in blockchain-based solutions, and Mercedes pilots automated payment systems for car charging network. The manufacturer of Mercedes, Daimler, also studied decentralized identity, sharing data in vehicles and automatic payments for electric charging, using blockchain in logistics and costs.
Consider waving effects: Order to Tesla, which is then tokenized, can be traded on production schedules, geographical priorities or adaptation. The first users can sell their position in the queue, manufacturers can capture the value of the secondary market, and prices will be set in a cross, and they are not covered by the dealer’s tags.
These compilation nests for sale would act as connecting options on financial markets, which gives owners the right (but not obligation) to buy later. If preferences change or require skyrockets, gaps can be freely sold. This approach would introduce market dynamics in the historically lack of transparency.
Skeptics may call this exaggeration, but the numbers suggest differently. Only in February 2025, Opensea registered over $ 211 million in the token trade volume (NFT), winning 47.8% of the market.
A trouble -free user experience is the missing link
In the case of mass adoption, blockchain must become hidden. Promising examples include visa experiments with payments without gas via Account abstractionIN Verite Circlewhich enables users to prove compliance without disclosure of personal data and Magic LinkAccess to the portfolio based on e-mails. The goal is not to force users to cryptocurrencies, but to set the benefits of blockchain in everyday interactions, making them trouble -free, automatic and largely hidden to the user.
According to Boston Consulting Group, the tokenization of assets in the real world can reach $ 16.1 trillion, including financial products such as insurance, pensions, alternative investments, own capital, infrastructure and patents. Driving even a fraction of this activity to real reservations, hotel rooms, concert tickets or unused factory time created recent secondary markets.
Road ahead of us
Nike output with the NFTS did not mean the end of tokenization, but instead improved concentration. Similarly, the next breakthrough does not come from digital art, but from practical applications: hotel chains earning on deficiencies through open resale markets, car manufacturers eliminating the scaling of the waiting list using clear nest trade or service providers limit MRI’s waste, while earning fees for legal transmission.
The question about billion dollars is not whether the tokenized reservations will transform industries, but which sectors will first move to gain the advantage of open, liquid booking systems. Those who now operate will not only solve elderly problems – they will unlock completely recent markets.
Opinion: Evan Kuhn, president of Delorean Labs.
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