# Domain Names and Real World Assets > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [550]. 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: video, 2024-09-16 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8WsBtHUkus. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the great powers step (Multipolar Realpolitik, 2024), the latest step. - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Analogy for the contracting layer. - Career works it belongs to: - Copyright and the digital economy: a case for reason (2010): Short paper proposing land law, with rights of way and trespass, as a better model for copying than theft:... (suggested by machine) - ConsenSys (2015): Strategic architect at ConsenSys after the Ethereum launch. (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. (through a work suggested by machine) - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - 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: Property, NFTs & real-estate transactions (50%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: RWA (2 here; 20 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); DNS (2 here; 23 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); NFT (2 here; 45 sources in all, earliest dated 2019); standards (1 here; 87 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated); real estate (1 here; 106 sources in all, earliest dated 2013, 2 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.11 (1.00 is the top), number 532 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [553] [Ethereum and Fraud (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/553.md); [552] [Dollars are RWAs (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/552.md); [551] [The Money Is The Smallest Aspect Of This Beast (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/551.md) - On the same works, just after: [548] [Blockchain Standardization and Interoperability (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/548.md); [547] [5% Rise in Global GDP (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/547.md); [546] [Marrying the Real and the Cryptographic world together (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/546.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: Domain Names and Real World Assets, video, 2024-09-16, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8WsBtHUkus; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [550], https://guptaoption.com/texts/550.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8WsBtHUkus&t=0s) let's talk a we bit about domain names right you know amazon.com google.com all the rest of that sort of stuff um the thing that makes those kind of interesting is that they've got a pure digital component which is you know DNS it's a record and a datab base but they also have a real world aspect which is trademark law so you know that interspace between register trademarks for you know companies doing business but then also this digital representation of a domain name and then the kind of joining together of that digital layer and the trademark layer to get a usable system that allows you to do stuff in the real world that's a pretty good example of the kind of absolute minimum case for an rwa right if domain names didn't have any trademark law associated with them and they just floated in space as a pure digital thing that would be a real digital asset a trademark in the real world is not any kind of an rwa that's just a real world thing it's it's not you know a blockchain thing it's not a digital thing it's just property but that bridge point where you've got a kind of digital thing and a legal thing and they're just lightly connected together that gave us DNS and that was a critical part in us being able to get onto the internet in a kind of coherent way um extending that model so that you can have a link between an nft token and a deed for a piece of real estate it's the same logic as a trademark is tied to domain name a property title is tied to an nft right a share of a container load of laptops is connect dur the year E20 it's all basically the same logic of the internet that got us this far but extended to new classes of property in the real world and then the infrastructure side of that and and I say this with uh you know a hard hard earned experience is it probably has to be a shared infrastructure because it is really quite hard you know if we had 250 companies that were sharing the legal expenses of nailing down this real world asset stuff the whole field would fly along and instead what we have is 2 150 companies are all doing it themselves and what you get is a landscape that is littered with you know 2 meter deep Wells when the water is actually 45 M deep it's the concerted shared effort of you drill one deep well that to me is the thing that makes this an infrastructure problem rather than just a problem solving problem and again your parallel is you know if everybody rolled [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8WsBtHUkus&t=150s) their own nfts or rolled their own er c20s uh you wouldn't have an exchange you wouldn't have things like openc you wouldn't have coinbase because the technical cost of speaking all of those standards would be too high standardization and sharing of the work is kind of the essential mechanism of progress on the internet and it is no different for the blockchain --- End of [550] Domain Names and Real World Assets. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [548](https://guptaoption.com/texts/548.md) Blockchain Standardization and Interoperability (2024); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.