TREE NEWS update: India’s wealthiest state, Maharashtra, is drafting a policy to tokenize state-owned assets, including power transmission infrastructure, to fund new transmission lines and energy storage. Praveen Pardeshi, CEO of the state’s transformation agency MITRA, said up to 40% to 50% of a transmission line could be tokenized, with token holders sharing transmission revenue. Maharashtra accounts for about 14% of India’s nominal GDP and has roughly 130 million residents. The state also plans India’s first law on blockchain-based property tokenization.
India’s richest state Maharashtra moves to tokenize state assets to fund power infrastructure
This is a notable test of whether tokenization can move beyond private credit and treasuries into sovereign-adjacent infrastructure, with a subnational government rather than a crypto-native issuer setting the terms. The revenue-share structure matters more than the token wrapper: it turns transmission lines into yield-bearing instruments whose performance depends on regulated tariffs and grid utilisation, not on crypto market sentiment. Maharashtra's scale and its parallel push for a property-tokenization law suggest a jurisdiction trying to build legal rails, not just pilot a product. The open question is whether the policy advances to actual issuance and how revenue-sharing rights would be enforced and traded.
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