Opinion by: Evan Kuhn, president of Delorean Labs
When car manufacturers develop a new model, their fragmented logistics and their sales cycle mean that even if a customer reduces a deposit, it has no feasible or reliable way to project delivery for this car.
Impatient car buyers may wait for months or even years after paying their deposit, without knowing where they are sitting in the queue for delivery. This is why new models are assessed at the price of stickers when cars come into the market for the first time.
There was no solution on the industry level – but tokenized reservations will open a market of several dollars.
The broken logic of modern car reservations
Book a car model today is incredibly ineffective. Car buyers pay massive increases when new models are moved to the lot because there is no foresight in manufacturing hours.
The options are that, if you now want the new car, you have to pay a considerable premium compared to the price of the sticker, and if you will pay the price of the regular sticker, you do not have a word to say or an idea as to the time you get the delivery of your car. So what is the size of this problem?
A recent study of APAC hospitality has shown that cancellations via Booking.com represent 40% of income. In comparison, Expedia sees 24%, suggesting dozens of billions in the world, while the platforms for the resale of tickets extract increases of 30%, which leaves the artists and the fans.
Automobile waiting lists remain even more opaque. Dealers have buyers with $ 30,000 at $ 70,000 on Lightning Ford F-150 orders, demonstrating a secondary lucrative market created entirely by information asymmetry, even without a formalized “black market”. Even manufacturing suffers, with 15% to 30% of inactive seating capacity, according to an MCKINSEY report, because small businesses do not have access to negotiable reservation systems.
Intelligent blockchain contracts elegantly solve the problems associated with information asymmetry. Flat tokenized reservations, for example, can deposits on ONCHAIN, allowing buyers to exchange their positions freely, while developers maintain regular sales dynamics.
The tokenization opportunity of $ 50 billion in the automotive industry
The automotive sector presents a convincing case for the booking tokenization, where the Phantom waiting lists have long allowed abusive increases.
The Tesla cybertruck has accumulated more than a million reserves, each supported by a repayable deposit of up to $ 250, representing more than $ 200 million in dormant capital which could otherwise feed the liquidity of the secondary market rather than being stored in corporate chests.
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A tokenized reservation system would end these practices by allowing the queues of waiting positions, the producers selling royalties on secondary trades. The technical infrastructure already exists. The BMW venture capital unit invested in depth in supply-based supply solutions, and Mercedes Pilot of automated payment systems for loading networks. Mercedes manufacturer, Daimler, has also explored decentralized identity, data sharing in vehicles and automatic payments for electric load, using logistics and costs blockchain.
Consider the training effects: an order for a Tesla which is then tokenized can be exchanged on production times, geographic delivery priorities or customizations. The first adopters could sell their position in the queue, the manufacturers could capture the value of the secondary market, and the prices would be fixed transparently, rather than being obscured by the increases of the dealerships.
These sale construction locations would work as the appeal options on the financial markets, giving holders the right (but not the obligation) to buy later. If preferences change or require Monte-Bornes, slots could be sold freely. This approach would introduce market dynamics into an industry historically lacking in transparency.
The skeptics can call this Surringer, but the figures suggest the opposite. In February 2025 alone, Opensea recorded more than $ 211 million in volume of negotiation of non -bubble tokens (NFT), capturing 47.8% of the market.
The seamless user experience is the missing link
For mass adoption, blockchain must become invisible. The promising examples include visa experiences with gas -free payments via account abstraction, Circle’s truth, which allows users to prove compliance without revealing personal data and access to wallet -based portfolio of Magic Link. The objective is not to force users in the crypto, but to integrate the advantages of blockchain in daily interactions, which makes them transparent, automatic and largely invisible to the user.
According to Boston Consulting Group, the tokenization of active workers in the real world could reach 16.1 billions of dollars, covering financial products such as insurance, pensions, alternative investments, equity, infrastructure and patents. Even redirect a fraction of this activity to real reservations, hotel rooms, concert tickets or unused factory time would create new secondary markets.
The upcoming road
The release of Nike de NFTS did not spell the end of the tokenization, but rather refined the objective. Similarly, the next breakthrough will not come from digital art but practical applications: hotel chains monetizing non-presentation via open resale markets, car manufacturers eliminating the scalpation of waiting lists with an exchange of transparent slits or health care providers reducing MRI waste while gaining legitimate transfer costs.
The question of the billion dollars is not to know if tokenized reservations will reshape the industries, but which sectors will first move to claim the advantage of open liquid booking systems. Those who act now will not only solve the old problems – they will completely unlock new markets.
Opinion of: Evan Kuhn, president of Delorean Labs.
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