# Internet of Agreements > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [39]. 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 (Text), 2017 (from the career record), https://internetofagreements.com/. 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): The contracting layer for international trade that a zero-tariff export zone would run on. - Career works it belongs to: - Internet of Agreements conferences (2017): Hosted four London conferences on blockchain agreements: law, trade, identity and space. - Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency (2013): Bitcoin Expo London talk, November 2013: how bitcoin is governed, its competitors and its resilience to... (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) - Internet of Agreements (2017): Paper at the World Government Summit in Dubai on producing legal agreements at industrial scale. (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) - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... (through a work suggested by machine) - Ideas whose earliest source in this archive is this one: Internet of Agreements - Topics: Blockchain infrastructure & theory — databases, semantics, identity & trust (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: ioa (7 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Internet of Agreements (13 here; 28 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); IoA conference (2 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); European Parliament (2 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); Internet of Agreements conference (3 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); emerging markets (2 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); World Government Summit (2 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); IoT (2 here; 10 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); Blockchaingers (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); A Blockchain Solution For Identity? (1 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2017) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Internet of Agreements conference; ioa; World Government Summit; A Blockchain Solution For Identity?; Blockchaingers; IoA conference - Importance: core-text score 0.62 (1.00 is the top), number 39 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [836] [13 Oct 17 Law – Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences - [837] [23 Feb 18 Trade – Internet of Agreements (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences - On the same works, just before: [757] [Vinay Gupta | Interview | State of the Net 2015 (2015)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/757.md); [766] [Start Talks Vinay Gupta (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/766.md); [227] [Dubai Mandates Blockchain-Only Government Documents By... (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/227.md) - On the same works, just after: [271] [Introducing the Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md); [237] [The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section,... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md); [218] [Blockchain to be breakthrough tech for Dubai and... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/218.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: Internet of Agreements, document, 2017, https://internetofagreements.com/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [39], https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://internetofagreements.com/) The Internet of Agreements® is the bridge between the Internet and the deals, contracts, rules and regulations that support our lives. As the web has accelerated the spread of ideas, and e-commerce has changed how we buy and sell, IoA® will give us new ways to specify, manage, and execute agreements between people, businesses and governments. Built with blockchains, smart contracts and AI, IoA offers a vision for global supply chains and international commerce, facilitating trade that is free, fair and frictionless. If you're new to IoA and want an introduction, we recommend starting with the Internet of Agreements paper presented at the World Government Summit in Dubai in 2017. Published by root at 3rd January 2018 Mattereum briefing Published by root at 13th December 2017 First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap Published by root at 7th July 2017 A Blockchain Solution for Identity? Publications The Internet of Agreements by Vinay Gupta Presented at the World Government Summit in collaboration with Consensys, this paper introduces the Internet of Agreements A Brief History of Blockchain by Vinay Gupta Explains the history of the blockchain, one of the key technical building blocks for the Internet of Agreements The Promise of Blockchain Is a World Without Middlemen by Vinay Gupta The case for the disruptive impact of the Internet of Agreements We Don't Need Political Solutions for Global Trade - We Need Practical Ones by Rob Knight Applies the Internet of Agreements to the challenges of global trade faciliation How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead by Rob Knight & Vinay Gupta The potential for emerging markets to leapfrog their rivals in IOA adoption Technology for making agreements by Rob Knight Puts IOA in the context of previous phases of internet growth and adoption 13–16 October in London First IoA Conference Some of the brightest minds in finance, media, government, and technology came together to discuss the various implications blockchain technology will have on global supply chains and law. Second IoA Conference On 23rd February 2018, we will host the second Internet of Agreements conference. The subject of this conference will be Blockchains and World Trade. Speakers will address the question: Can blockchain grow the world economy? 23rd February 2018 Legal Panel – Internet of Agreements conference Do you like it? Read more25th December 2017 Blockchaingers Tech Deep Dive Talks by Mihai Cimpoesu at TU Delft Do you like it? Read more25th December 2017 Vinay Gupta l The Internet of Agreements l Meaning 2017 Do you like it? Read more25th December 2017 Sweetbridge SweetTalk #1: Vinay & Scott: A Liquid Economic OS of Supply Chain on Blockchain (BIG) Do you like it? Read more25th December 2017 Blockchain keynote – Vinay Gupta How Blockchain can change our world by Vinay Gupta European Parliament Blockchain Presentation May 2017 “Blockchain: IoT’s trust broker?” talk on the fly by wire internet and the blockchain future Vinay Gupta – Norwegian Blockchain Strategy from Oslo Blockchain Day 2017 Do you like it? Read more25th January 2017 Introducing the [passage 2](https://internetofagreements.com/) Read more25th December 2017 Blockchain keynote – Vinay Gupta How Blockchain can change our world by Vinay Gupta European Parliament Blockchain Presentation May 2017 “Blockchain: IoT’s trust broker?” talk on the fly by wire internet and the blockchain future Vinay Gupta – Norwegian Blockchain Strategy from Oslo Blockchain Day 2017 Do you like it? Read more25th January 2017 Introducing the Internet of Agreements Get in touch If you would like to know more about the Internet of Agreements, please --- End of [39] Internet of Agreements. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [271](https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md) Introducing the Internet of Agreements (2017); the most closely related, [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md) 13 Oct 17 Law – Internet of Agreements (2017); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.