$TAO Bittensor Subnet 46 - ZIPCODE wants to turn SN46 into a capital origination, distribution, and settlement network for real estate.
RESI is now ZIPCODE. Seby told me about this in our last interview, but the main point is not the rebrand. The main point is what ZIPCODE is actually trying to build.
Interview TLDR:
• ZIPCODE is targeting a capital network for real estate.
• The first product is focused on lenders. The lender connects capital, credit criteria, and borrower flow. The user fills out a profile, completes KYC, connects a bank account through Plaid, sees available loans, signs digitally, and the money shows up.
• Seby said they already have a “highly accurate” appraisal model and pilots starting almost “every other day” with lenders and investors.
• His line was direct: “They want our AI.”
• The market thesis is big. He says he doesn’t see another player doing open-source decentralized proptech in this format.
• The comparison he brought up was Figure: $17B in stablecoin volume tied to loans, and a network token with $1B FDV / $600M market cap.
• ZIPCODE wants to take a different path: an open network, closer to the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Bittensor logic than to a closed corporate fintech.
• The initial plan he mentioned was to launch the first phase around mid-July, with “vaults of capital” accessible through the platform.
• The most aggressive number: Seby spoke about an expectation of $500M to $1B in volume in the first year.
• When I questioned the size of that number, he answered: “One billion is conservative.”
• Why? According to him, they are launching with a network of 30,000 lenders in the US.
• And with a partner / wholesale lender doing $2B per year in volume. In his math, $2B in volume would mean around $2M in ARR.
• The most bullish detail for token holders: Seby said all revenue generated goes to the alpha token.
• Revenue sources mentioned: AI inference, lending fees, borrowing fees, and settlement fees.
• The stated intention: turn 100% of those fees into buybacks. Not use that revenue to pay operations.
• He also said they have already generated users and small revenue, but that it is still far from the goal.
The part that caught my attention the most: ZIPCODE is not trying to sell “AI for real estate” as a pretty narrative.
They are trying to plug AI, underwriting, lenders, borrowers, capital vaults, settlement, and token value accrual into one single network.
If Seby is right, SN46 stops being just a real estate subnet. It becomes an attempt to create the real estate capital layer inside Bittensor. I’ll pay to see it. Actually, my alpha is already allocated there.
Analyze, research, decide. Now it’s on you.
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A new chapter for real estate.
RESI is now Zipcode.
Property valuations.
Home equity loans.
Bringing the entire real estate stack for every Zipcode in the U.S.
Next few weeks are going to be WILD...