# ‘Anti Corruption, Anti Slavery – The Hope for Mattereum’ > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [588]. 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=CQ4ix4VB8X4. 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): Ledger technology as an anti-corruption tool, with a caution. - 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) - The Future We Deserve: "Facebook for the Five Billion?" (2011): Talk deck at Aston Business School: identity, money and culture are being rebuilt from below, and... (suggested by machine) - Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013): UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies paper: smart devices turn physical capital into... (suggested by machine) - Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): 162-page deck tying it together: poverty and climate are one problem, a lean green development path is... (suggested by machine) - Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic: Blockchain, AI, and the Future of the Built Environment (2026): Mattereum essay: combine AI with the blockchain into self-enforcing smart contracts and move real estate... (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) - 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: blockchain / global / internet (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Hope for Mattereum (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2022); circular economy (2 here; 17 sources in all, earliest dated 2019); anti-corruption (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); Mattereum (1 here; 127 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.11 (1.00 is the top), number 517 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [791] [COP26 Event: Green Blockchain, Green Economy (2021)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/791.md); [793] [COP26 Event: The Circular Economy - Finance and Data for... (2021)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/793.md); [714] [Autonomous A1 - Taming Capitalism with Vinay Gupta of... (2021)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md) - On the same works, just after: [573] ['Digital Assets, Digital Chattel' (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/573.md); [569] [How Crypto Interacts With Real World Assets (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/569.md); [852] [At the Turning Point — How Crypto Interacts with Real... (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/852.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: ‘Anti Corruption, Anti Slavery – The Hope for Mattereum’, video, 2022-08-22, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ4ix4VB8X4; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [588], https://guptaoption.com/texts/588.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ4ix4VB8X4&t=0s) well this is the question right so if the indian adoption and the general global adoption of blockchain takes the areas where things are reasonably clean and gradually expands them in size there's a decent chance that it will be an anti-corruption technology right but if it's taken too large too quickly so that the blockchain penetrates the society faster than the society can become less corrupt the prospect is that what we get is the blockchain is used as a fuel for corruption rather than as a cure for corruption and that to be fair really kind of worries me because if you take a corrupt system and you just inject blockchain into it now you have a corrupt system of the blockchain whereas if you take a relatively clean system and use the blockchain to clean it the rest of the way and then gradually you scale it maybe it's possible to kind of widen the circle of light until you've got you know quite a well-established sort of social contract that this part of the system is not corrupt and this is the hope for Mattereum i mean we have a world-class anti-motor and slavery expert on board we have a very good environmental leader we're currently in the process of onboarding a friend of mine who's going to take eleanor rostrom's work on the commons and start figuring out how that how we apply ostrom's work you know she won a nobel prize for commons management staff so we're going to certify officers work to handle the circular economy aspect and we take austrians work on governing commons and we apply that to the circular economy because how else would you have a certain economy --- End of [588] ‘Anti Corruption, Anti Slavery – The Hope for 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.