# Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain Fellow - Digital Catapult | Digital Catapult > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [211]. 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), 2017-10 (from the career record), https://www.digicatapult.org.uk/about/press-releases/post/digital-catapult-welcomes-vinay-gupta-as-blockchain-fellow/. 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): Career record in the Mattereum period. - Career works it belongs to: - Digital Catapult Blockchain Fellow (2017): Blockchain Fellow at Digital Catapult, the UK government-funded innovation agency. - Dubai Blockchain Strategy (2016): Helped create Dubai's government blockchain strategy, which aimed to run all applicable government... (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) - 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) - Topics: gupta / vinay / blockchain (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Digital Catapult (14 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Internet of Agreements (4 here; 28 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); urban resilience (2 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); Arup (2 here; 9 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); legal enforceability (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Internet of Agreements conference (2 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Small Is Profitable (2 here; 16 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 2 undated); smart contracts (8 here; 110 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); Programmable Blockchains in Context (1 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2016); contracts (8 here; 147 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Digital Catapult; legal enforceability - Importance: core-text score 0.09 (1.00 is the top), number 622 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [218] [Blockchain to be breakthrough tech for Dubai and... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/218.md); [265] [European Parliament blockchain presentation May 2017 (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md); [834] [A Blockchain Solution for Identity? – Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/834.md) - On the same works, just after: [215] [This Revolution Will Be Tokenized (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md); [40] [First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md); [653] Interview with Brett Scott - Internet of Agreements (2017) ## 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: Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain Fellow - Digital Catapult | Digital Catapult, document, 2017-10, https://www.digicatapult.org.uk/about/press-releases/post/digital-catapult-welcomes-vinay-gupta-as-blockchain-fellow/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [211], https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://www.digicatapult.org.uk/about/press-releases/post/digital-catapult-welcomes-vinay-gupta-as-blockchain-fellow/) Digital Catapult > About > Press releases > Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain Fellow Press Release Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain Fellow Posted 10 Oct 2017 Share Vinay Gupta will bolster expertise in blockchain and smart contracts. LONDON, UK 11 October 2017 – Digital Catapult today announces that Vinay Gupta , co-founder of Mattereum, has been appointed as Blockchain Fellow of the prestigious UK Government initiative Digital Catapult, a company based in London’s Euston Road but with centres in strategic areas across the country. The appointment marks the centre’s ongoing focus on demonstrating just how the evolution of blockchain is helping to empower companies and individuals to perform secure financial transactions without third party intervention. Vinay Gupta is a leading figure in the blockchain space. He co-ordinated the release of the blockchain platform Ethereum in July 2015 and was strategic architect for ConsenSys, a technology hub focusing on the Ethereum blockchain and related applications. He was the designer of the National Blockchain Strategy for Dubai and is a partner at Hexayurt Capital, the technology-focused VC firm behind the Internet of Agreements. He has been involved in commercial software development since 1992 and his experience as a programmer and visionary has covered fields as diverse as medical imaging, flight simulation, computer graphics, cryptographic applications and the web. This week, Digital Catapult is also to be a venue for the Internet of Agreements Conference hosted by Mattereum which will bring many of the key players together for an important global conversation on the implications and applications of smart contracts. Dr Jeremy Silver, CEO of Digital Catapult said: “We are absolutely delighted that Vinay Gupta has agreed to take on the newly created role of Digital Catapult Blockchain Fellow. Vinay’s credentials speak for themselves as one of the leading voices around the world, developing the application of distributed ledger technologies and smart contracts beyond the confines of fintech. We hope that Vinay will spend one or two days a month at Digital Catapult, bringing the ecosystem of innovative businesses in the space together and helping envision the future for blockchain and smart contracts across industrial sectors.” Mr Gupta comments on his appointment as Blockchain Fellow, “The UK is at the top of list as the blockchain capital of the world especially in the primary market for legally enforceable smart contracts with recourse to arbitration, in which the City of London is already a global leader. Technology is key to the UK’s economic growth, productivity and competitiveness and as blockchain Fellow with Digital Catapult I am pleased to do my part in facilitating greater understanding and take-up of the blockchain in all its applications.” As part of his extended CV, Mr Gupta was also on the editorial team of ‘Small is Profitable’, the winner of the 2003 Economist Book of the Year, and has contributed to US Department of Defence research, advised Arup on urban resilience and was associate fellow at the UCL Institute for Security and Resilience. He is [passage 2](https://www.digicatapult.org.uk/about/press-releases/post/digital-catapult-welcomes-vinay-gupta-as-blockchain-fellow/) in all its applications.” As part of his extended CV, Mr Gupta was also on the editorial team of ‘Small is Profitable’, the winner of the 2003 Economist Book of the Year, and has contributed to US Department of Defence research, advised Arup on urban resilience and was associate fellow at the UCL Institute for Security and Resilience. He is co-founder of Mattereum, a startup which brings legal enforceability to blockchain smart contracts. He has long had a humanitarian concern with the condition of the poorest in society and disaster relief. He invented the cheap, simple, non-patented and open source hexayurt refugee shelter which has gone on to become iconic in the Burning Man counter culture. In his techno-realist view, technology and engineering, including blockchain, can contribute to positive social and commercial transformation and help deal with resource scarcity. About Digital Catapult’s involvement in blockchain Digital Catapult is designed to help drive the development of the British economy through encouraging digital innovation and culture by supporting organisations such as, in this case, Mattereum. Mattereum considers the UK to be at the top of the list as the blockchain capital of the world especially in the primary market for its platform, legally enforceable smart contracts with recourse to arbitration, in which the City of London is already a global leader. Technology is acknowledged as key to the UK’s economic growth, productivity and competitiveness. In 2014, former Business Secretary Ed Vaizey spoke at Digital Catapult’s opening about the importance of the Internet of Things. Three years on, the UK now has an opportunity to lead the world in the Internet of Agreements. To find out all of the ins and outs of smart contract technology and the legalities of applying smart contracts in the real world, in areas like managing intellectual property and real estate, get your tickets to the Internet of Agreements Conference taking place at Digital Catapult from 13-16 October. For more blockchain tech news, read Vinay Gupta’s programmable blockchains in context article --- End of [211] Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain Fellow - Digital Catapult | Digital Catapult. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md) This Revolution Will Be Tokenized (2017); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.