Yep, several years ago it was trendy to shill the idea of "cadastre [land records] on the blockchain" to solve some imagined issue with the central authority of

Yep, several years ago it was trendy to shill the idea of "cadastre [land records] on the blockchain" to solve some imagined issue with the central authority of land registries, never mind that of any particular asset class, land title was the very last thing any sane individual would cede to a "zero trust database". If you're going to sell or buy land, that title better be backed by all the legal and otherwise mechanisms of force available to the state! NFTs are just a further abstraction on that same failed idea – a cyptofinancial derivative to make something appear real that isn't real.