# 23 Feb 18 Trade – Internet of Agreements > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [837]. 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 (Web page), 2018-02-23 (from the career record), https://internetofagreements.com/trade. 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): Trade end of the contracting chain. - Career works it belongs to: - Internet of Agreements conferences (2017): Hosted four London conferences on blockchain agreements: law, trade, identity and space. - Governing Bitcoin: what the future holds for our favourite currency (2013): Bitcoin Expo London talk, November 2013: how bitcoin is governed, its competitors and its resilience to... (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. - 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: Blockchain infrastructure & theory — databases, semantics, identity & trust (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Internet of Agreements (7 here; 28 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); Z/Yen (2 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Internet of Agreements conference (3 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2017); Michael Mainelli (2 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2016); ImpactPPA (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); Holochain (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2018); world trade (1 here; 18 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); supply chain (3 here; 92 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 4 undated); global trade (1 here; 30 sources in all, earliest dated 2013); communications (2 here; 81 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 5 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Holochain - Importance: core-text score 0.07 (1.00 is the top), number 647 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [39] [Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences - [836] [13 Oct 17 Law – Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md): same career work: Internet of Agreements conferences - On the same works, just before: [647] [Vinay Gupta - Internet of Agreements conference (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/647.md); [648] Interview with Jon Husband - Internet of Agreements (2017); [654] Interview with Stephen Diehl - Internet of Agreements (2017) - On the same works, just after: [633] [Mattereum panel at the Internet of Agreements conference (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/633.md); [632] Law and Global Trade in the Era of Blockchain (2018); [835] [10 Apr 18 Identity – Internet of Agreements (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.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: 23 Feb 18 Trade – Internet of Agreements, document, 2018-02-23, https://internetofagreements.com/trade; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [837], https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://internetofagreements.com/trade) Internet of Agreements Second Conference 23rd February 2018 The Second Internet of Agreements Conference On 23rd February 2018 we hosted the second Internet of Agreements® conference. The subject of this conference was Blockchains and World Trade. Speakers addressed the question: Can blockchains grow the world economy? Materials Jeremy Goodwin — SyncFab The global supply chain is an estimated $75 trillion system, roughly two-thirds of the world’s GDP. The scale and complexity of the supply chain is difficult [...]Do you like it? Read more19th April 2018 Panel — The economic impact of blockchain The panelists were Jason Brink, of Data Blossom; Dan Bates, CEO of ImpactPPA; Matthew Schute, Communications Director of Holochain; Quan Le, CEO of Binkabi; and Richard [...]Do you like it? Read more18th April 2018 Michael Mainelli — Z/Yen Professor Michael Mainelli is Co-founder and Chairman of commercial think tank Z/Yen, Emeritus Gresham Professor at Gresham College in London, Alderman of the City of London, [...]Do you like it? Read more9th April 2018 Mattereum panel at the Internet of Agreements conference The Mattereum team introduce themselves, and talk about what Mattereum is trying to achieve. Transcript Rob: I’m just going to do a brief introduction, to give [...]Do you like it? Read more9th April 2018 Law and Global Trade in the Era of Blockchain The second Internet of Agreements conference brought together some of the best minds from areas of law, supply chain, and fintech to discuss the intersections of [...]Do you like it? Read more Join our mailing list to stay up to date with all communications about the Internet of Agreements. You may unsubscribe from marketing emails from Internet of Agreements at any time. --- End of [837] 23 Feb 18 Trade – Internet of Agreements. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [633](https://guptaoption.com/texts/633.md) Mattereum panel at the Internet of Agreements conference (2018); the most closely related, [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.