Colorado church group tokenizes $2.5M chapel
Bush told Forbes, later adding that he had been "praying for this for years" and that God had told him to "go get my house.
Pastor, leading the project, Blake Bush, said he was compelled by a higher power to use blockchain technology as a tool for advancing the group's mission.
Tokenize the building
According to a report from Forbes, Bush's congregation and other church groups had been renting the building from its owner, a local businessperson who also owns a car dealership. The 11,457-square-foot building, called Old Stone Church due to its stone exterior, was purchased by its current owner in 2022 at a cost of $2.2 million. Reportedly, Bush and the Colorado House of Prayer group intend to purchase the building for $2.5 million
Bush said he came up with the idea of tokenizing the building — putting it on the blockchain as a digital asset that can be split into shares — after a spiritual experience. "I heard the Lord say, 'tokenize the building,' "Bush told Forbes, later adding that he had been "praying for this for years" and that God had told him to "go get my house."
Blockchain and real estate
In order to accomplish his holy mission, Bush and the group created Stone Coin, a digital asset used to raise money for the purchase of Old Stone Church. The coin is tied to a real estate token created by REtokens and running on the Polymesh private blockchain. Like any tokenization project, the results will depend on the amount of positive token flow and reactive value. The project is reportedly seeking investors after having raised about half of its goal.
