# PRESS RELEASE: WILLIAM SHATNER TEAMS UP WITH LONDON FIRM MATTEREUM TO FIGHT FRAUD IN COLLECTIBLES | William Shatner > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [197]. 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), 2019-05 (from the career record), https://williamshatner.com/press-release-william-shatner-teams-up-with-london-firm-mattereum-to-fight-fraud-in-collectibles/. 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): Flagship Mattereum Asset Passport case, the contracting layer in use. - Career works it belongs to: - William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum (2019): Mattereum partnership with William Shatner giving memorabilia legally backed digital twins against fraud,... - Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): Blog essay proposing the escrownym: an identity lodged with escrow brokers under a legally binding... (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. - cryptographic applications: Cryptography applied: from 1990s cypherpunk practice to identity cards, Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Shatner (6 here; 35 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 1 undated); William Shatner (4 here; 32 sources in all, earliest dated 2019, 1 undated); digital twin (2 here; 12 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); collectibles (3 here; 27 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); Mattereum (10 here; 127 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); Asset Passport (2 here; 33 sources in all, earliest dated 2017, 2 undated); science fiction (1 here; 37 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); dispute resolution (1 here; 48 sources in all, earliest dated 2013); smart contracts (1 here; 110 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); contracts (1 here; 147 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.18 (1.00 is the top), number 395 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [43] [William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md): same career work: William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum - [565] [Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta 14th... (2023)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md): same career work: William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum - On the same works, just before: [716] [How do we control the material world with smart... (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md); [43] [William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md); [258] [Mattereum - Decentralized Digital Twins (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/258.md) - On the same works, just after: [256] [I'm coming to Malta (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.md); [163] [Tell Me Who You Are. Identity, institutional memory, and... (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/163.md); [165] [The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.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: PRESS RELEASE: WILLIAM SHATNER TEAMS UP WITH LONDON FIRM MATTEREUM TO FIGHT FRAUD IN COLLECTIBLES | William Shatner, document, 2019-05, https://williamshatner.com/press-release-william-shatner-teams-up-with-london-firm-mattereum-to-fight-fraud-in-collectibles/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [197], https://guptaoption.com/texts/197.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://williamshatner.com/press-release-william-shatner-teams-up-with-london-firm-mattereum-to-fight-fraud-in-collectibles/) 09 th May William Shatner 0 Comments Front Page PRESS RELEASE: WILLIAM SHATNER TEAMS UP WITH LONDON FIRM MATTEREUM TO FIGHT FRAUD IN COLLECTIBLES Sci fi and courtroom drama legend William Shatner has announced a partnership with London legaltech firm Mattereum to document the authenticity of memorabilia and collectibles on the blockchain. During New York Blockchain Week, they will showcase their new Asset Passport technology, which uses legally-binding “smart contracts” to ensure the accuracy of records. William Shatner said: “I’m announcing that I’m partnering with Mattereum and other technology creators to establish an authentication system. With it, we can know where an item has been, who has owned it, and if it is genuine. It can mean the difference between a priceless, future heirloom, and worthless fake.” The new initiative will create digital twins for science fiction and other collectible memorabilia. The first digital twin is for a one of a kind numbered action figure of “Capt. James Kirk in Casual Attire”, autographed by Mr Shatner. The digital twin, stored on an immutable ledger, will assure collectors that the item is from Mr Shatner’s personal collection. Mattereum Chief Legal Officer Chris Wray said: “The Mattereum Asset Passport gives you reliable provenance for your collection, backed by the liability of those who certify it – and ultimately their collateral, insurance, and personal assets. Transparency and enforceability will be essential tools in the fight against fraud and counterfeiting.” The legal provisions which Mattereum builds will ensure that asset owners and businesses can trade with confidence in the provenance of the items involved. Mattereum provides an effective and fair dispute resolution mechanism that secures rights across the world’s jurisdictions, allowing physical property to be digitally organised and its value unlocked, wherever it resides. Mattereum CEO Vinay Gupta, the former launch coordinator for Ethereum, said “Using digital twins, Mattereum is weaving the digital and physical together in a new way. Today we verify that assets are genuine. Soon, we will showcase our blockchain systems for effortless, elegant trade, transfer, track and trace, even physical search. It comes from a new way of thinking about how computers can upgrade physical matter into something more conceptual, more responsive. We are going to provide the frameworks for environmental impact, carbon tracking, and end of life disposal too.” Paul Camuso, an expert in collectables and art, is curating the new initiative. He said: “The global market for art and collectibles is estimated at $67bn annually. As trading moves online, collectors are increasingly concerned about the risk of fraud, and there is demand for digital authenticity solutions.” Added Rob Knight, Mattereum’s Chief Technical Officer, “Claims about objects in our Asset Passports are legally binding, so you can be confident that they’re accurate – it’s true, or you can sue”. Vinay Gupta, Rob Knight and Paul Camuso are available for interview. For further information: [email removed] --- End of [197] PRESS RELEASE: WILLIAM SHATNER TEAMS UP WITH LONDON FIRM MATTEREUM TO FIGHT FRAUD IN COLLECTIBLES | William Shatner. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [256](https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.md) I'm coming to Malta (2019); the most closely related, [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md) William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum (2019); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.