# Home - Mattereum > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [42]. 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 (year of the work, not of publication), https://mattereum.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: legally verified identity and ownership of physical goods. - Career works it belongs to: - Mattereum (2017): Founder and CEO of Mattereum, which turns every claim about a physical object into a legal warranty. - CoinDesk (2020): CoinDesk interview on an identity layer for physical things. (suggested by machine) - UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021): Consulted on UK rules for resolving disputes over smart contracts; Mattereum is quoted in them. (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. - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. - environment / green capitalism: Green economics: from oil efficiency to markets for facts about products. - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. - Ideas whose earliest source in this archive is this one: Mattereum asset passports - Topics: Capitalism, consumption & resources (50%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: RWA (5 here; 20 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Mattereum (7 here; 127 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); Asset Passport (2 here; 33 sources in all, earliest dated 2017, 2 undated); digital twin (1 here; 12 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); world trade (1 here; 18 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); speed of light (1 here; 20 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); real world assets (1 here; 24 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); warranties (1 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2017, 2 undated); dispute resolution (1 here; 48 sources in all, earliest dated 2013); platforms (1 here; 76 sources in all, earliest dated 2008) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): warranties; Asset Passport; real world assets; RWA; digital twin - Importance: core-text score 0.84 (1.00 is the top), number 12 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [165] [The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md): same career work: Mattereum - [206] [Vinay Gupta's Big Idea: An Identity Layer for Your Things (2020)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md): same career work: Mattereum - On the same works, just before: [121] ["STAR–TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/121.md); [289] [test (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/289.md); [227] [Dubai Mandates Blockchain-Only Government Documents By... (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/227.md) - On the same works, just after: [834] [A Blockchain Solution for Identity? – Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/834.md); [659] Interview with Mihai Cimpoensu I Mattereum and legally... (2017); [657] [Legal Panel - Internet of Agreements conference (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/657.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: Home - Mattereum, document, 2017, https://mattereum.com/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [42], https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://mattereum.com/) Everyone | Everything | Everywhere Just One World For Business With Mattereum Innovative lawtech solutions to transform world trade: Instant, secure digital transactions For any high value physical asset Almost anywhere in the world Legally verified identity, condition, and ownership A revolutionary step change for business equivalent to VISA, or UPC bar codes This systemic level innovation standardises the way alternative investment assets are described and managed, fusing the physical and digital. The Mattereum Asset Passport Enables the ownership, identity and condition of any asset to be definitively verified and backed with warranties that have legal weight and financial consequences in 170 countries worldwide The possibilities are endless – what could your business do with this capability? Sell Assets Get in touch To work with Mattereum on your project, come and talk to us If you would like to find out first about exciting upcoming Mattereum news How it works Fully Regulated Fractionalization of Physical Assets Sold on the Blockchain Create one ERC721 token per asset, or use ERC20 tokens to fractionalize your asset. Sell the resulting Real World Asset (RWA) tokens on the blockchain. For asset owners, and for RWA platforms who need our unique legal capabilities to protect clients. Live for two years and supporting $100,000+ transactions. Find out more Differentiation Benefits For Everyone Removes barriers to participation, cuts costs, reduces fraud. Faster Payments and ownership can be transferred instantaneously on the blockchain so business can move at the speed of light. Fractional Real World Assets can be fractionalized creating new liquidity and allowing RWA DAOs to create new governance structures with all token owners certain that they have a right to part of the physical asset. Safe Every aspect is legal and regulated with a built-in system of arbitration for dispute resolution that works in 172 jurisdictions worldwide – effectively a money-back guarantee. A whole new way of doing business Without watertight legals of the kind Mattereum provides no RWA project survives contact with the real world Live Passports​ Use Cases We have been live for two years, helping customers realise their RWA projects. Ready to help you with your assets NOW. Click to see the respective Mattereum Asset Passport. More Passports a 2M dollar Plot Of Land $100,000 Instrument - Trumpet An Andy Warhol 5 ETH Gold Bars Mattereum is the Safety Net for All the World’s Assets, Today and in the Future We can work with you directly to tokenize your assets. We can collaborate with other Real World Asset companies to add the legal backbone to existing products. The World’s Most Powerful Digital Twin • This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences [passage 2](https://mattereum.com/) you with the best user experience possible. 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(2019); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.