# Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin | TechCrunch > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [183]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Web page), 2018-09-27 (publication data), https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the law step (Mattereum, 2017), before the great powers step (Multipolar Realpolitik, 2024). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Press on Mattereum. - Career works it belongs to: - TechCrunch (2018): TechCrunch coverage of Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin. - Hexayurt Capital Partners (2016): Talk on a new venture model: startups as factories for financial instruments, entrepreneurs as the scarce... (suggested by machine) - A Blockchain Solution For Identity? (2017): Keynote to the Dutch Blockchain Coalition (BC3) at Techruption: insurance as the way to make different... (suggested by machine) - Forbes (2017): Forbes interview on why Ethereum is the future. (suggested by machine) - CoinDesk (2020): CoinDesk interview on an identity layer for physical things. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - CheapID to Mattereum: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017. (through a work suggested by machine) - social enterprise: Enterprises that turn money into social capital and back: the capital conversion matrix from the Rocky Mountain... (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Property, NFTs & real-estate transactions (50%); gupta / vinay / blockchain (50%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: TechCrunch (6 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2013); Berlin (5 here; 30 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); Mattereum (8 here; 127 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); Silicon Valley (2 here; 37 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 1 undated); contracts (7 here; 147 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated); smart contracts (4 here; 110 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); ConsenSys (1 here; 23 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); Internet of Agreements (1 here; 28 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); dispute resolution (1 here; 48 sources in all, earliest dated 2013) - Importance: core-text score 0.09 (1.00 is the top), number 621 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [607] Pavlo Tanasyuk - Internet of Agreements - Space (2018); [609] James Bruegger - Internet of Agreements - Space (2018); [610] Jerry Stone - Internet of Agreements - Space (2018) - On the same works, just after: [721] [Vinay Gupta, founder Mattereum, putting assets on the... (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/721.md); [598] [Mattereum Smart Property Register - David Salgado (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/598.md); [43] [William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin | TechCrunch, document, 2018-09-27, https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [183], https://guptaoption.com/texts/183.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/) Cryptocurrency speculation is over. That’s why I’m excited to announce that Vinay Gupta will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin to talk about cool use cases that could make blockchain projects useful, beyond financial services. Gupta worked on the initial release of Ethereum back in 2015. He contributed when it comes to project management. He then worked with the Consensys team on other cryptocurrency projects. But he’s now 100 percent focused on his own project — Mattereum . As the name suggests, it’s all about bringing physical objects to the blockchain. For instance, if you buy an expensive painting, you want to make sure that you sign a contract with the previous owner that says that you now own this painting. Mattereum helps you set up self-executing smart contracts to transfer digital assets (including tokens that could prove the ownership of a painting). But if you want to combine smart contracts with good old legal contracts, Mattereum has also worked on Ricardian contracts so that those contracts have a legal value. Finally, Mattereum also worked on a decentralized dispute resolution platform that can be enforced in a national court. If you want to listen to Gupta talk about Mattereum himself, then you should come to Disrupt Berlin. Buy your ticket to Disrupt Berlin to listen to this discussion and many others. The conference will take place on November 29-30. In addition to fireside chats and panels, like this one, new startups will participate in the Startup Battlefield Europe to win the highly coveted Battlefield cup. Vinay Gupta Founder, Mattereum Ltd. Vinay Gupta is a technologist and policy analyst with a particular interest in how specific technologies can close or create new avenues for decision makers. This interest has taken him through cryptography, energy policy, defence, security, resilience and disaster management arenas. He is the founder of Hexayurt.Capital, a fund which invests in creating the Internet of AgreementsTM. Mattereum is the first Internet of Agreements infrastructure project, bringing legally-enforceable smart contracts, and enabling the sale, lease, and transfer of physical property and legal rights. He is known for his work on the hexayurt, a public domain disaster relief shelter designed to be build from commonly-available materials, and with Ethereum, a distributed network designed to handle smart contracts. Topics Crypto , Disrupt , disrupt berlin , Disrupt Berlin 2018 , Mattereum , Startups , Vinay Gupta When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission . This doesn’t affect our editorial independence. Romain Dillet Senior Reporter Romain Dillet was a Senior Reporter at TechCrunch until April 2025. He has written over 3,500 articles on technology and tech startups and has established himself as an influential voice on the European tech scene. He has a deep background in startups, AI, fintech, privacy, security, blockchain, mobile, social and media. With thirteen years of experience at TechCrunch, he’s one of the familiar faces of the tech publication that obsessively covers Silicon Valley and the tech industry — his career started [passage 2](https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/) startups and has established himself as an influential voice on the European tech scene. He has a deep background in startups, AI, fintech, privacy, security, blockchain, mobile, social and media. With thirteen years of experience at TechCrunch, he’s one of the familiar faces of the tech publication that obsessively covers Silicon Valley and the tech industry — his career started at TechCrunch when he was 21. Based in Paris, many people in the tech ecosystem consider him as the most knowledgeable tech journalist in town. Romain likes to spot important startups before anyone else. He was the first person to cover Revolut, Alan and N26. He has written scoops on large acquisitions from Apple, Microsoft and Snap. When he’s not writing, Romain is also a developer — he understands how the tech behind the tech works. He also has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. He knows how to connect the dots between innovations and the effect on the fabric of our society. Romain graduated from Emlyon Business School, a leading French business school specialized in entrepreneurship. He has helped several non-profit organizations, such as StartHer, an organization that promotes education and empowerment of women in technology, and Techfugees, an organization that empowers displaced people with technology. 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Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [721](https://guptaoption.com/texts/721.md) Vinay Gupta, founder Mattereum, putting assets on the... (2018); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.