About AOAL
We're new. Trust has to be earned.
American Open Asset Ledger (AOAL) is an independent, community-driven project building a transparent public registry of real-world asset information. We welcome research, public records, source documentation and corrections that improve the registry. That covers real-world assets of every kind: energy projects, buildings, land, infrastructure and more.
- Status
- New, early stage
- Built by
- An independent team and community
- Backed by
- No assets, government, energy company or institutional investor
- Covers
- Real-world assets of all kinds
The gap
Finding information is not the same as knowing what it proves.
Records, ownership claims and supporting documents often sit in different places. AOAL brings them together in understandable profiles, showing what is documented, what has been checked and what remains unknown.
Where records live
Land registries, company registries, regulators, industry datasets and private documents each hold a piece. They rarely link to each other.
What tokens can't do alone
A digital token can record transfers, but it cannot prove on its own that an asset exists, who owns it or whether it is already pledged elsewhere.
What AOAL adds
One plain-language profile per asset that brings the sources together and labels every claim: documented, checked, verified or not established.
Research
What independent researchers have found.
These sources describe the problem. They are cited as background only and do not endorse AOAL. Good tools already exist for parts of this problem; AOAL does not claim to be the first or only one.
Open Ownership
2026
SourceBridging the gap for effective asset transparency
Land and company ownership records can be partial, use incompatible formats and be hard to link to each other.
Transparency International
2025
SourceOpacity in Real Estate Ownership Index
Of 24 jurisdictions assessed, none scored perfectly and ten scored below five out of ten.
Bank for International Settlements
2023
SourceBIS Bulletin No. 72 on tokenisation
A token does not by itself establish ownership of an off-chain asset. Someone still has to verify the asset exists and who controls it.
OECD
2025
SourceTokenisation of assets and distributed ledger technologies
Despite strong interest, real adoption of asset tokenisation remains scarce.
Global Energy Monitor
Ongoing
SourceIntegrated power tracker methodology
Good trackers exist for some sectors, and they note that ownership information is not equally complete for every record.
Our commitments
How we intend to earn trust.
- Say clearly what AOAL is not, including that it is not asset-backed today.
- Show the source and date behind every piece of information.
- Label unknowns as unknown instead of guessing.
- Mark planned features as planned, never as working.