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I think it's probably real. Deloitte won this contract years ago and they have a blockchain division, California also has a blockchain working group within govt which among other things had suggested putting car and house titles in the blockchain as early as in 2020.

I shudder to think how much all this is going to cost the CA taxpayer... apparently the Deloitte contract was $46m.

As a technologist I am appalled at the cost, as a consultant I'm jealous!

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If it's real, my suspicion is someone stood up a private blockchain that functions as a copy/replication of the real DMV database that'll still be consulted for anything meaningful and called it a day.

They're using AVAX so it's probably a custom Avalanche L1 – that's the whole point of Avalanche, they get to benefit from the public validators on the AVAX network but they can fully manage validator membership in their private L1

The people involved in this are fairly legit so I doubt they're going to do it just for show. Now the question is: did it need a blockchain solution? probably not

Ah yes Deloitte. Always there to sell the latest hype technology.

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