# William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [43]. 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), 2019 (year of the work, not of publication), https://mattereum.com/2021/03/30/the-william-shatner-collection-is-live/. 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): Mattereum warranty in practice: 'it's true, or you can sue'. - Career works it belongs to: - William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum (2019): Mattereum partnership with William Shatner giving memorabilia legally backed digital twins against fraud,... - CoinDesk (2020): CoinDesk interview on an identity layer for physical things. (suggested by machine) - Swarm with Mattereum (2023): Mattereum partnership with Swarm, a regulated German exchange, to tokenize and fractionalize real-world... (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. - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Shatner (8 here; 35 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 1 undated); Mattereum (25 here; 127 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); William Shatner (5 here; 32 sources in all, earliest dated 2019, 1 undated); TechCrunch (2 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2013); digital twin (2 here; 12 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); real world asset NFTs (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2019); collectibles (2 here; 27 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); Asset Passport (2 here; 33 sources in all, earliest dated 2017, 2 undated); DeFi (1 here; 31 sources in all, earliest dated 2015); science fiction (1 here; 37 sources in all, earliest dated 2011) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): William Shatner; real world asset NFTs - Importance: core-text score 0.39 (1.00 is the top), number 171 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [197] [PRESS RELEASE: WILLIAM SHATNER TEAMS UP WITH LONDON FIRM... (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/197.md): same career work: William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum - [565] [Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta 14th... (2023)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md): same career work: William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum - On the same works, just before: [183] [Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin |... (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/183.md); [721] [Vinay Gupta, founder Mattereum, putting assets on the... (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/721.md); [598] [Mattereum Smart Property Register - David Salgado (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/598.md) - On the same works, just after: [258] [Mattereum - Decentralized Digital Twins (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/258.md); [197] [PRESS RELEASE: WILLIAM SHATNER TEAMS UP WITH LONDON FIRM... (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/197.md); [256] [I'm coming to Malta (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.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: William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum, document, 2019, https://mattereum.com/2021/03/30/the-william-shatner-collection-is-live/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [43], https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://mattereum.com/2021/03/30/the-william-shatner-collection-is-live/) William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum Skip to content Announcements William Shatner Authentication May 10, 2019 Sci fi and courtroom drama legend William Shatner has announced a partnership with London legaltech firm Mattereum to document the authenticity of memorabilia and collectibles, on the blockchain. During New York Blockchain Week, they will showcase their new Asset Passport technology, which uses legally-binding “smart contracts” to ensure the accuracy of records. William Shatner said: “I’m announcing that I’m partnering with Mattereum and other technology creators to establish an authentication system. With it, we can know where an item has been, who has owned it, and if it is genuine. It can mean the difference between a priceless, future heirloom, and worthless fake.” The new initiative will create digital twins for science fiction and other collectible memorabilia. The first digital twin is for a one of a kind numbered action figure of “Capt. James Kirk in Casual Attire”, autographed by Mr Shatner. The digital twin, stored on an immutable ledger, will assure collectors that the item is from Mr Shatner’s personal collection. Mattereum Chief Legal Officer Chris Wray said: “The Mattereum Asset Passport gives you reliable provenance for your collection, backed by the liability of those who certify it – and ultimately their collateral, insurance, and personal assets. Transparency and enforceability will be essential tools in the fight against fraud and counterfeiting.” The legal provisions which Mattereum builds will ensure that asset owners and businesses can trade with confidence in the provenance of the items involved. Mattereum provides an effective and fair dispute resolution mechanism that secures rights across the world’s jurisdictions, allowing physical property to be digitally organised and its value unlocked, wherever it resides. Mattereum CEO Vinay Gupta, formerly launch coordinator for Ethereum, said “Using digital twins, Mattereum is weaving the digital and physical together in a new way. Today we verify that assets are genuine. Soon, we will showcase our blockchain systems for effortless, elegant trade, transfer, track and trace, even physical search. It comes from a new way of thinking about how computers can upgrade physical matter into something more conceptual, more responsive. We are also going to provide the frameworks for environmental impact and carbon tracking.” Paul Camuso, an expert in collectables and art, is curating the new initiative. He said: “The global market for art and collectibles is estimated at $67bn annually. As trading moves online, collectors are increasingly concerned about the risk of fraud, and there is demand for digital authenticity solutions.” Added Rob Knight, Mattereum’s Chief Technical Officer, “Claims about objects in our Asset Passports are legally binding, so you can be confident that they’re accurate – it’s true, or you can sue.” Follow the discussion on Twitter, or join the Telegram chat . Links WilliamShatner.com What is Ethereum? Mattereum explainer video TechCrunch: Mattereum, perhaps the world’s weirdest and most daring startup “I’m announcing that I’m partnering with Mattereum and other technology creators to establish an authentication system. With it, we can know where an item has [passage 2](https://mattereum.com/2021/03/30/the-william-shatner-collection-is-live/) it’s true, or you can sue.” Follow the discussion on Twitter, or join the Telegram chat . Links WilliamShatner.com What is Ethereum? Mattereum explainer video TechCrunch: Mattereum, perhaps the world’s weirdest and most daring startup “I’m announcing that I’m partnering with Mattereum and other technology creators to establish an authentication system. With it, we can know where an item has been, who has owned it, and if it is genuine. It can mean the difference between a priceless, future heirloom, and worthless fake.” “Using digital twins, Mattereum is weaving the digital and physical together in a new way. Today we verify that assets are genuine. Soon, we will showcase our blockchain systems for effortless, elegant trade, transfer, track and trace, even physical search. It comes from a new way of thinking about how computers can upgrade physical matter into something more conceptual, more responsive. We are also going to provide the frameworks for environmental impact and carbon tracking.” UPDATE The William Shatner Collection of real world asset NFTs , authenticated by Third Millennia and powered by Mattereum are here! The collection includes prized memorabilia and props which chronicle two of screen legend Mr. Shatner’s historic roles from his iconic career: Captain Kirk of Star Trek and Denny Crane from Boston Legal. Other historic props from the Star Trek franchise, Titanic and Logan’s Run are also included. The auction is LIVE, with the rwaNFTs trading on OpenSea. The collection can be accessed via ShatnerOnChain.com . 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(2019); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.