# 'How Top Create RWAnfts for artwork in galleries, and how this helps artists' Ian Simmons, Mattereum > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [575]. 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, 2022-08-22 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmqa18w8ItQ. Text: automatic captions, mostly corrected - 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): Art-market application of 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) - Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): Blog essay proposing the escrownym: an identity lodged with escrow brokers under a legally binding... (suggested by machine) - Mattereum (2017): Founder and CEO of Mattereum, which turns every claim about a physical object into a legal warranty. (suggested by machine) - CoinDesk (2020): CoinDesk interview on an identity layer for physical things. (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) - environment / green capitalism: Green economics: from oil efficiency to markets for facts about products. (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) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Asset Passport (2 here; 33 sources in all, earliest dated 2017, 2 undated); NFT (2 here; 45 sources in all, earliest dated 2019); warranties (1 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2017, 2 undated); Mattereum (1 here; 127 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.05 (1.00 is the top), number 675 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [735] [Vinay Gupta - Mattereum (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/735.md); [199] [IG Wines with Mattereum (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/199.md); [594] [Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Online Meet-Up 27 July 2022 (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md) - On the same works, just after: [573] ['Digital Assets, Digital Chattel' (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/573.md); [571] [The Second Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup 21 Sept 2022 (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/571.md); [568] [The Third Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup, 30 Nov 2022 (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/568.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: 'How Top Create RWAnfts for artwork in galleries, and how this helps artists' Ian Simmons, Mattereum, video, 2022-08-22, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmqa18w8ItQ; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [575], https://guptaoption.com/texts/575.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmqa18w8ItQ&t=0s) i mean there's two ways that through the Mattereum system that things can be traded as nfts from original artworks by asset passporting it vaulting the artwork and selling the nft as an nft and the artwork stays in the same place and the other way is to have unique identifiers in terms of tags or scans of the thing which give its immutable identity that they become part of the asset passport that is then goes with the object wherever it's sold so if it's physically there you've got the details on the asset passport that can be used to completely verify its existence and one of the great advantages of this is that um if you start in the artist's studio and go forward you have the provenance on the blockchain all the way through so everything about the thing is there every time it's sold throughout its entire existence so that there's absolutely no needs for galleries purchases and so on to have to trek back through the provenance and prove it for themselves again because it's there and backed by warranties that have financial consequences if they are in error --- End of [575] 'How Top Create RWAnfts for artwork in galleries, and how this helps artists' Ian Simmons, Mattereum. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [573](https://guptaoption.com/texts/573.md) 'Digital Assets, Digital Chattel' (2022); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.