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ShelterZoom's Industry-First Blockchain Real Estate Platform Goes Live in the U.S.ShelterZoom today announced that its blockchain-based online offer and acceptance platform for the real estate industry has gone live in the U.S. Other major international markets - including Canada, Australia, Europe, and countries in the Middle East - are set to go live in the first quarter of 2018. The company's first customer, Cyrus Charter of New York, is in full production mode as part of the initial testing phase, which began in November. Additionally, beta rollout has commenced with the first 10 customers, and preparations for ShelterZoom's second platform, Rent NOW, are underway. Built to be Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) data dictionary-compliant, ShelterZoom significantly refines and streamlines the process of making real estate offers, thereby reducing paperwork and bringing greater openness to what has traditionally been a fragmented and opaque process. The complete ShelterZoom Online Offer and Acceptance platform includes a powerful dashboard, the Offer NOW widget and a mobile app (available on iTunes and Google Play) that enables buyers and buyer agents to instantly submit offers from online real estate listings with just a few clicks or screen taps. The ShelterZoom.com websit is currently accepting sign-ups for the Offer NOW widget, which can be readily integrated with any affiliate website that features real estate listings with just a few lines of code and at no cost to those who sign up before January 31, 2018. All users can use ShelterZoom.com dashboards free of subscription charge, and ShelterZoom charges a service fee of only $8 for each offer submission after the free beta period, which ends on February 28, 2018. The beta for Rent NOW is expected to commence in March. "As blockchain enters the mainstream, ShelterZoom is well positioned to bring the entire real estate industry onto it. The easy adoption of ShelterZoom's Offer NOW and Rent NOW widgets by any real estate website means that the industry can truly become innovative. And our highly experienced international team is committed to this journey," commented Chao Cheng-Shorland, co-founder and director of ShelterZoom, referring to the multinational team led by both Amir Allen Alishahi, ShelterZoom's other co-founder and director, and her. "Standardized, interoperable, transparent, and secure offers are the future of the business. That's why we are so excited about rolling out to early adopters, including both small and large brokerage firms, multi-listing services, our first WordPress real estate theme affiliate, Estatik, and our first Australian company, Arena Property Agents." Using ShelterZoom, users can track and aggregate - as well as accept, reject or counter - offers in real time, while buyers and buyer agents can track offer statuses through their own ShelterZoom dashboards. In addition, all parties in a transaction can receive push or text notifications throughout the offer process and instantly chat with one another according to established protocols via a modern, user-friendly interface. According to Sergey Fradkov, ShelterZoom technical advisor and General Partner of Startup Accelerator iDealMachine, "We will see rapid adoption of blockchain technology by marketplaces, organizations and entire industries. Blockchain and related cryptocurrency implementations will enable new business models and streamline interactions between participants. They will also enable new participants to quickly establish themselves in the industry segments and create many new business opportunities." "ShelterZoom has identified a part of the real estate transaction that can benefit greatly from increased transparency and a streamlined process," said Richard Mohr, MLS industry advisor. "Crafting their technology to be RESO-compliant and built on top of a blockchain platform separate them from all other entrants in the real estate technology industry as a company that is truly building for the future." ShelterZoom's second platform, Rent NOW, shares a similar architecture with Offer NOW. It has a widget that can be installed on any real estate rental website. The widget enables a prospective tenant to instantly submit a secure rental application on a property, which then generates an Ethereum smart contract. ShelterZoom's complete online renting and leasing solution also comes with dashboards for landlords, agents and tenants, as well as an online chat function for all parties involved. About ShelterZoom ShelterZoom™ is a privately held, early-stage real estate technology startup headquartered in New York City. The company offers a complete, end-to-end solution for buying and selling real estate online. Built on Ethereum, a blockchain-based distributed computing platform, the industry-first ShelterZoom solution helps standardize and streamline the offer process, provide enhanced security, reduce laborious paperwork, and deliver a better overall user experience for realtors, buyers and sellers - all while driving faster deals and better outcomes. ShelterZoom is led by Co-founder and Director Amir Allen Alishahi, founder and broker with Cyrus Charter Property and Land Company; Co-founder and Director Chao Cheng-Shorland, founder and CEO of iFuture Services PTY LTD; Technical Advisor Sergey Fradkov, General Partner of Startup Accelerator iDealMachine; Dmitry Goroshevsky, ShelterZoom's Chief Architect; and Attorney Donna Oliva, with Donna Oliva & Associates. For more information visit ShelterZoom.com.
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