# First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet of Agreements > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [40]. 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), 2017-12-13 (from the career record), https://internetofagreements.com/2017/12/13/first-internet-of-agreements-conference-recap/. 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): Event record for the contracting layer. - Career works it belongs to: - Internet of Agreements conferences (2017): Hosted four London conferences on blockchain agreements: law, trade, identity and space. - ConsenSys (2015): Strategic architect at ConsenSys after the Ethereum launch. (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) - Topics: Blockchain infrastructure & theory — databases, semantics, identity & trust (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: IoA conference (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Internet of Agreements (3 here; 28 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); A Blockchain Solution For Identity? (1 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); ioa (1 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Internet of Agreements conference (1 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); supply chains (1 here; 59 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 2 undated); Mattereum (2 here; 127 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.15 (1.00 is the top), number 428 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 - [39] [Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences - On the same works, just before: [211] [Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md); [836] [13 Oct 17 Law – Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md); [744] [Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Capital - World Blockchain Forum (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/744.md) - On the same works, just after: [656] Michael Mainelli - Internet of Agreements conference (2017); [641] Christopher Brewster - Smart Contracts and the need for... (2017); [645] David Roon - Internet of Agreements conference (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: First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet of Agreements, document, 2017-12-13, https://internetofagreements.com/2017/12/13/first-internet-of-agreements-conference-recap/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [40], https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://internetofagreements.com/2017/12/13/first-internet-of-agreements-conference-recap/) First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap The first Internet of AgreementsTM conference took place between 13th and 16th October in London. Some of the brightest minds in finance, media, government, and technology came together to discuss the various implications blockchain technology will have for global supply chains and law. Throughout the ‘unconference’, two hack days, and formal conference, attendees learnt about the new possibilities that blockchain technology opens up in their respective fields. Moreover, this conference acted as a starting point for the blossoming Internet of Agreements ecosystem we are trying to build. We, the organisers of the IoA conference, want to say a big thank you to everyone that attended. The success of this project depends on more of the same passion that was in such abundance at the conference. In the coming year there will be more conferences and meetups to build on the things we learned last month. In the following weeks we will be posting about the various topics covered during the conference, as well as videos of the talks for those who were unable to attend. You can find them here. Thank you once again, The Internet of Agreements team. Related posts Mattereum briefing A Blockchain Solution for Identity? Announcing Mattereum White Paper Draft --- End of [40] First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – 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, [656] Michael Mainelli - Internet of Agreements conference (2017) (no text here); 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.