# 21 Jun 18 Space – Internet of Agreements > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [41]. 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), 2018-06-21 (from the career record), https://internetofagreements.com/space. 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): Contracting layer applied to space; tangential to Harappa. - Career works it belongs to: - Internet of Agreements conferences (2017): Hosted four London conferences on blockchain agreements: law, trade, identity and space. - Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (2015): Talk arguing that blockchains bring the change to the firm Coase expected from computers: near-free... (suggested by machine) - 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) - 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. - 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) - 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: gupta / vinay / blockchain (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: space industry (6 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2016); space law (3 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2018); Mars (6 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); ioa (2 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Internet of Agreements (4 here; 28 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); Blockchaingers (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); ICO (3 here; 32 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); Internet of Agreements conference (1 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); hackathon (1 here; 12 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); ConsenSys (1 here; 23 sources in all, earliest dated 2002) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): space law - Importance: core-text score 0.20 (1.00 is the top), number 356 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [39] [Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences - [618] [Vinay Gupta - Space - Internet of Agreements (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences - On the same works, just before: [624] Matt Peterman - Identity - Internet of Agreements conference (2018); [625] Rob Knight - Identity - Internet of Agreements conference (2018); [732] [Vinay Gupta - How Blockchain will change our global... (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/732.md) - On the same works, just after: [618] [Vinay Gupta - Space - Internet of Agreements (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md); [611] Ingram Kamalagharan - Internet of Agreements - Space (2018); [615] Anushka Sharma - Internet of Agreements - Space (2018) ## 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: 21 Jun 18 Space – Internet of Agreements, document, 2018-06-21, https://internetofagreements.com/space; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [41], https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://internetofagreements.com/space) Internet of Agreements Fourth Conference Space 21st & 22nd June 2018 The Fourth Internet of Agreements Conference On the 21st & 22nd June we hosted the fourth Internet of Agreements® conference, at which we discussed the potential that blockchain offers for both finance and legal infrastructure for business in space. All materials from the conference are available in our Medium blog IoA IV brought together leading thinkers in the space industry and the blockchain industry to meet, discuss ideas, and co-present a variety of proposals for cooperation between the up and coming providers of technical infrastructure and risk capital to support innovation, on what many of us believe to be the most important human endeavour there is. Themes Space Migration Space migration is the only way humans can expand beyond the sustainability limits of Earth. A manned mission to Mars is the next logical stage in becoming that space faring species. Quoting Elon Musk “It’s important to get a self-sustaining base on Mars because it’s far enough away from earth that [in the event of a war] it’s more likely to survive than a moon base”. Getting to Mars is a long haul, maybe 20 years away, and a lot of people are working on the problem - some will be at IoA 4. Designing, building, launching and controlling a manned mission is very capital intensive. To succeed we will need to pool global money - to crowdfund on an unimaginable scale - and the cryptocurrency ICO model could just be the way to do this. Investing in Space Space business is worth £170bn annually and is predicted to grow to £400bn by 2030. The rise of cheap nano satellites, reusable launchers, and likes of the British Space Industry Act are ushering in a new era. There are a plethora of interesting commercial projects, from remote monitoring to telecoms to blockchain. Some promise immediate benefit for users & investors, while some are highly speculative but potentially revolutionary. Rapidly falling costs has opened space to a new class of entrepreneur, and they need a new class of investor. There is a lot of private money about, particularly in the tech and cryptocurrency sectors - space is a high-risk venture and most of this money was earned through high-risk ventures. It is time to start normalising investment in space and to explore new routes through crowdfunding and ICO. Blockchains for Space Blockchain is already being put to use within the space sector: from nascent ICO funding and token-based usage, to supply chain and document management, to debris tracking and spacecraft navigation, to satellite-based blockchain processors and bitcoin broadcasting. These projects range from small startups to large enterprises like NASA, ESA, and Airbus. Mostly this is at the evaluation or pilot stage and is not widely known about within either the space industry or the blockchain community. However Accenture predicts rapid growth over next 2 years initially lead by the aviation industry (which is allied to the space industry). IofA4 aims to educate [passage 2](https://internetofagreements.com/space) small startups to large enterprises like NASA, ESA, and Airbus. Mostly this is at the evaluation or pilot stage and is not widely known about within either the space industry or the blockchain community. However Accenture predicts rapid growth over next 2 years initially lead by the aviation industry (which is allied to the space industry). IofA4 aims to educate and cross fertilise the space & blockchain sectors for maximum early benefit. Speakers Vinay Gupta, Mattereum Vinay is a leading figure in the blockchain industry. He is Director of Corporate Strategy at Mattereum, a collaboration between lawyers and technologists connecting digital assets on the blockchain with goods and services in the material world. He co-created the Internet of Agreements conferences, was strategic architect for ConsenSys Systems and architect of the National Blockchain Strategy for Dubai. He will be speaking about the blockchain, it's relevance to business in space, and the importance of a manned mission to Mars. Anushka Sharma, Naaut Nush is active in the tech ecosystems of UK, Europe and USA having worked across politics, the Olympics and innovation strategy. She curated the Disruption Summit Europe, delivered the CogX 18 AI festival, set up TechHub Shoreditch, produced the UK’s first audio-led VR experience with SubPac, and is an Ambassador for Google’s Campus London to champion Diversity in Technology. Her space startup Naaut focuses on innovation and frontier technology for our multi-planetary future. She will speak about Blockchain for space supply chain. James Bruegger, Seraphim Capital James has been Managing Partner and Investment Director for Seraphim Capital since Oct 2016, and is a co-founder of Space Camp Accelerator. Seraphim are the world’s first venture fund dedicated to financing the Space ecosystem, investing in over 180 early and growth stage businesses. He will be speaking about the fund and what they look for when investing. Pavlo Tanasyuk, Spacebit Pavlo is a co-founder of Spacebit, a ground-breaking way to fund international space projects making space exploration available to everyone. He is also CEO of BlockVerify and was the co-founding CEO of Monexy payment system. He holds MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge, and was Editor-In-Chief of Information Systems Journal at the London School of Economics. He will speak about democratising space exploration with Blockchain technology. Christopher Newman, Professor of Space Law at Northumbria University Chris has been active in the teaching and research of Space Law for a number of years and has recently worked on a publication examining the ethical underpinnings of Space Governance. He will be speaking about law, policy and the Space Industries Act for entrepreneurs and investors. Michael Ricks, CBN Foundation Michael is the CEO of CBN Foundation, and advisor to the Debitum Network and Lancea LLP, amongst others. CBN is a new blockchain initiative created out of Cloudeo's existing geodata marketplace business. Michael will speak about the creation of a blockchain tokenised marketplace for geodata and geoservices that has been piloted with the European Space Agency. Benoit Chamot, Innovative Solutions In Space Benoit is [passage 3](https://internetofagreements.com/space) of CBN Foundation, and advisor to the Debitum Network and Lancea LLP, amongst others. CBN is a new blockchain initiative created out of Cloudeo's existing geodata marketplace business. Michael will speak about the creation of a blockchain tokenised marketplace for geodata and geoservices that has been piloted with the European Space Agency. Benoit Chamot, Innovative Solutions In Space Benoit is AOCS engineer & Business development at ISIS, one of the leading companies in the small satellite market providing turn-key cubesat & nanosat solutions including launch services. He has been an Technology Engineer at the Swiss Space Centre, and did his Masters Thesis at MIT on active removal of orbital debris. He will be giving an engineers perspective on small satellites at their uses Dean Masley & Ahsan Fazal, Moonshot Express Dean is co-founder of NestEgg Infrastructure together with pension provider APG, and was Director of the Blockchain Education Network. Ahsan is studying aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology. They will speak about their project to put Bitcoin on the moon as a 21st Century ‘X Prize’. Tobias Disse (CEO), Haischel Dabian (CTO), Dan Acristinii (Head R&D), Kryha Kryha won the machine to machine economy track at the Blockchaingers Hackathon in 2018 with the Grex project. They created a decentralized hive mind by launching a blockchain powered swarm of drones. The project has evolved since then into a low earth orbit satellite communication solution which is the subject of their talk. Jerry Stone, Spaceflight UK Jerry is a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society where he founded The Sir Arthur Clarke Awards, President of The Mars Society UK, and has lectured on space exploration for over forty years. He will speak on the hows and whys of getting humans on to Mars. Anja Blaj, Blockchain Think Tank Slovenia Anja is community manager for Blockchain Think Tank Slovenia. She has a master degree in global law, focused her studies on space law at the University of Ljubljana and CUPL in Beijing. She has numerous experiences with blockchain legal framework and counselling. She will be speaking about legal jurisdiction & property rights in space --- End of [41] 21 Jun 18 Space – 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, [618](https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md) Vinay Gupta - Space - Internet of Agreements (2018); the most closely related, [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.