# Vinay Gupta: his works and how they connect (part 8 of 9, 2017 to 2021)

> Every work in his career record (175), by year, with what it is, the thread it belongs to, what it came from and led to and why, and the sources in the archive about it. Part 8 of 9, 2017 to 2021; continues in https://guptaoption.com/texts/works-9.md. 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; source ids such as [250] are at https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md.

### A Blockchain Solution For Identity? (2017)

- Identity, law and blockchain; proposal; specified; work id blockchain-identity-2017; https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/a-blockchain-solution-for-identity-51fbcae94caa
- What: Keynote to the Dutch Blockchain Coalition (BC3) at Techruption: insurance as the way to make different blockchain identity systems work together, by reducing each organization's idea of trust to money.
- Summary: Video, transcript and slides published by Mattereum on Medium, 7 July 2017, in its Humanizing the Singularity publication; the video went up on YouTube on 21 June 2017 as "Blockchain keynote - Vinay Gupta". The Internet of Agreements site says he addressed the BC3 Consortium in the Netherlands, and its photo shows him at a Techruption and Dutch Blockchain Coalition event. Organizations mean different things by identity and trust, so rather than reconcile their ontologies the talk proposes a new financial instrument, insurance, that turns each trust model into money, aiming at an identity system that works in the Netherlands within about a year. He cites his 2006 Defense Department identity work.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from CheapID (2006): the 2006 Defense identity work, cited in the talk. Evidence (he says so): Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=120s
- Sources (23, by hand first, then by importance): [712](https://guptaoption.com/texts/712.md) Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa,... (2023); [834](https://guptaoption.com/texts/834.md) A Blockchain Solution for Identity? – Internet of Agreements (2017); [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); [224](https://guptaoption.com/texts/224.md) The Unplugged: The Videos - Shareable (2010); [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md) Vinay Gupta one page summary; [757](https://guptaoption.com/texts/757.md) Vinay Gupta | Interview | State of the Net 2015 (2015); [791](https://guptaoption.com/texts/791.md) COP26 Event: Green Blockchain, Green Economy (2021); [41](https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md) 21 Jun 18 Space – Internet of Agreements (2018); [546](https://guptaoption.com/texts/546.md) Marrying the Real and the Cryptographic world together (2024); [838](https://guptaoption.com/texts/838.md) Economics, environment and governance: small,... (2026); [40](https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md) First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet... (2017); [631](https://guptaoption.com/texts/631.md) The economic impact of blockchain - Panel at the second... (2018); ...

### Digital Catapult Blockchain Fellow (2017) (he contributed)

- Identity, law and blockchain; specified; work id digital-catapult; https://www.digicatapult.org.uk/about/press-releases/post/digital-catapult-welcomes-vinay-gupta-as-blockchain-fellow/
- What: Blockchain Fellow at Digital Catapult, the UK government-funded innovation agency.
- Summary: Announced October 2017. The release also mentions an associate fellowship at the UCL Institute for Security and Resilience.
- Sources (2, by hand first, then by importance): [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md) Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain... (2017); [611] Ingram Kamalagharan - Internet of Agreements - Space (2018) (no text here)

### Forbes (2017) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-forbes-2017; https://www.forbes.com/sites/rahulsingireddy/2017/10/18/this-revolution-will-be-tokenized/
- What: Forbes interview on why Ethereum is the future.
- Summary: Rahul Singireddy, 18 October 2017. Vinay Gupta On Why Ethereum Is The Future. The Forbes profile linked from his bios.
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [215](https://guptaoption.com/texts/215.md) This Revolution Will Be Tokenized (2017); [111](https://guptaoption.com/texts/111.md) Dangerous Old Men: Cypherpunk's Failure, Ethereum's Success (2015); [481](https://guptaoption.com/texts/481.md) You are at the Start of World-Changing Tech (2025); [421](https://guptaoption.com/texts/421.md) SEC, Crypto and Securities (2026); [183](https://guptaoption.com/texts/183.md) Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin |... (2018); [211](https://guptaoption.com/texts/211.md) Digital Catapult welcomes Vinay Gupta as Blockchain... (2017)

### Internet of Agreements (2017)

- Identity, law and blockchain; argument; thesis; work id ioa; https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf
- What: Paper at the World Government Summit in Dubai on producing legal agreements at industrial scale.
- Summary: Industrial production of agreements. Paper at the World Government Summit, Dubai, February 2017. Hexayurt Capital with Consensys. Building the Hyperconnected Future on Blockchains.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; hexayurt to chain; rich data capitalism
- Came from Mattereum (2017): named layer. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin (TechCrunch) (2018-09-27) https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/; Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Came from Programmable Blockchains in Context (2015): programmable chain to industrial agreements. Evidence (implied by the later work): 10 Years of Ethereum... Tokenization is here (Vinay Gupta and Ray Buckton) (2025-07-29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtWoCdXmEg&t=300s; The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section of Building the Hyperconnected... (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf#page=8
- Came from ConsenSys (2015): Hexayurt Capital with Consensys. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements at the World Government Summit... (2017-02-13) https://www.prlog.org/12619555-hexayurt-capital-presents-the-internet-of-agreements-at-the-world-government-summit.html; The Hexayurt Project (hexayurt.com) (2016) https://hexayurt.com/
- Came from Coase's Blockchain: Can Equity Crowdfunding Accelerate Past Venture Capital? (2015): near-free transactions to frictionless commerce. Evidence (implied by the later work): Financial Cryptography: Coase's Blockchain, the first half block (transcript) (2015-06-05) https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001564.html; The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section of Building the Hyperconnected... (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf#page=11
- Came from Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016): smart contracts across whole value networks, then agreements at industrial scale. Evidence (implied by the later work): Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1irVQ7bHgWAn5dkf7ucKkiXW_PauTFXB7EnPNzCzKR9E/edit; The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section of Building the Hyperconnected... (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf#page=11
- Led to Internet of Agreements conferences (2017): paper, then the conferences. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements at the World Government Summit... (2017-02-13) https://www.prlog.org/12619555-hexayurt-capital-presents-the-internet-of-agreements-at-the-world-government-summit.html; First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap (2017-12-13) https://internetofagreements.com/2017/12/13/first-internet-of-agreements-conference-recap/
- Led to UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021): industrial agreements need a digital court. Evidence (implied by the later work): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=3600s; The Future of Real Estate RWA (2024-07-09) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZgByFQVww&t=3000s
- Led to The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): economies of omniscience. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s; The Internet of Agreements, World Government Summit paper, p. 12 (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): machine-checked agreements scale up to treaties. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Internet of Agreements, World Government Summit paper, p. 12 (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf; Multipolar Realpolitik, introduction (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Sources (50, by hand first, then by importance): [237](https://guptaoption.com/texts/237.md) The Internet of Agreements (Hexayurt Capital section,... (2017); [266](https://guptaoption.com/texts/266.md) "Blockchain: IoT's trust broker?" talk on the fly by... (2017); [271](https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md) Introducing the Internet of Agreements (2017); [221](https://guptaoption.com/texts/221.md) Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements™ at... (2017); [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); [731](https://guptaoption.com/texts/731.md) Vinay Gupta l The Internet of Agreements l Meaning 2017 (2020); [566](https://guptaoption.com/texts/566.md) Why Global Trade Will Inevitably Move To The Blockchain (2023); [265](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md) European Parliament blockchain presentation May 2017 (2017); [251](https://guptaoption.com/texts/251.md) ODM 6981 Oxford Technology and Media Network Climate Change (2020); [766](https://guptaoption.com/texts/766.md) Start Talks Vinay Gupta (2016); [558](https://guptaoption.com/texts/558.md) Event Spotlight - Talk at LOGIN 2024 - Can regulators... (2024); [562](https://guptaoption.com/texts/562.md) Vinay Gupta at The Promise of the Blockchain 2015 (2024); ...

### Internet of Agreements conferences (2017)

- Identity, law and blockchain; specified; work id ioa-series; https://internetofagreements.com/
- What: Hosted four London conferences on blockchain agreements: law, trade, identity and space.
- Summary: Four London conferences, 2017 to 2018. Law and supply chains, 13 to 16 October 2017. World trade, 23 February 2018. Identity, 10 April 2018, Google Campus. Space, 21 to 22 June 2018. Mattereum is the first Internet of Agreements infrastructure project.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from Internet of Agreements (2017): paper, then the conferences. Evidence (he says so): Hexayurt Capital presents the Internet of Agreements at the World Government Summit... (2017-02-13) https://www.prlog.org/12619555-hexayurt-capital-presents-the-internet-of-agreements-at-the-world-government-summit.html; First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap (2017-12-13) https://internetofagreements.com/2017/12/13/first-internet-of-agreements-conference-recap/
- Led to Mattereum (2017): first Internet of Agreements infrastructure project. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt.Capital: Blockchain, Ecology, State and Anarchy (2017-10-27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjrGVIP9lPA&t=1367s; 21 Jun 18 Space, Internet of Agreements (2018-06-21) https://internetofagreements.com/space
- Sources (13, by hand first, then by importance): [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); [647](https://guptaoption.com/texts/647.md) Vinay Gupta - Internet of Agreements conference (2017); [618](https://guptaoption.com/texts/618.md) Vinay Gupta - Space - Internet of Agreements (2018); [41](https://guptaoption.com/texts/41.md) 21 Jun 18 Space – Internet of Agreements (2018); [40](https://guptaoption.com/texts/40.md) First Internet of Agreements Conference Recap – Internet... (2017); [836](https://guptaoption.com/texts/836.md) 13 Oct 17 Law – Internet of Agreements (2017); [835](https://guptaoption.com/texts/835.md) 10 Apr 18 Identity – Internet of Agreements (2018); [837](https://guptaoption.com/texts/837.md) 23 Feb 18 Trade – Internet of Agreements (2018); [166] Rob Knight — on the Internet of Agreements project | by... (2018) (no text here); [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md) Announcing Swarm x Mattereum Partnership - Mattereum (2023); [160](https://guptaoption.com/texts/160.md) UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021); [199](https://guptaoption.com/texts/199.md) IG Wines with Mattereum (2022); ...

### Mattereum (2017)

- Identity, law and blockchain; built; specified; work id mattereum; https://mattereum.com/
- What: Founder and CEO of Mattereum, which turns every claim about a physical object into a legal warranty.
- Summary: MAP: every claim a warranty. It's true, or you can sue. CheapID pattern on goods. Shipped work is not the forward thesis.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; RMI to spiral; environment / green capitalism; hexayurt to chain
- Came from Ethereum launch (2015): legal object on the chain; on-chain hashes, not reputation. Evidence (he says so): Startup Societies Podcast, Episode 34 (2019-05-10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB788hhEwqM&t=641s; Startup Societies Podcast, Episode 34 (2019-05-10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB788hhEwqM&t=791s
- Came from CheapID (2006): disclose on dispute. Evidence (he says so): Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta, 14 August 2023 (2023-08-31) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu5bFKPqLDg&t=2738s; Compilation: Vinay Gupta (Mattereum / Ethereum) on Visa, Insurance Claims, and Digital... (2023-06-04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1llN53VUBk&t=0s
- Came from Asset Passport conceived (2006): passport on goods. Evidence (he says so): Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79; The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product information markets, and the blockchain (2019-09) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- Connects back from Spiral economy (2023): doubt discount. Evidence (implied by the later work): COP26 Event: The Circular Economy, Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future (2021-11-22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn46s1BTMEA&t=1470s; COP26 Event: The Circular Economy, Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future (2021-11-22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn46s1BTMEA&t=6406s
- Connects back from The Future of Stuff (2020): ragged edge of the deal. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Future of Stuff (book text, p. 21) (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view; How To Address Climate Change: Diplomacy, Politics, Technology. COP 26 (2022-09-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZ0Hpq5cQU&t=1167s
- Came from Global Village Development Bank (2009): loan sits on the object. Evidence (he says so): Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=2400s
- Came from Internet of Agreements conferences (2017): first Internet of Agreements infrastructure project. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt.Capital: Blockchain, Ecology, State and Anarchy (2017-10-27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjrGVIP9lPA&t=1367s; 21 Jun 18 Space, Internet of Agreements (2018-06-21) https://internetofagreements.com/space
- Connects back from Product information markets (2019): MAP is the market instrument. Evidence (he says so): Saving the Climate with Real World Asset NFTs, MoneyDance 2020 (2020-11-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0y3eZrVtg&t=549s; COP26 Event: The Circular Economy, Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future (2021-11-22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn46s1BTMEA&t=1470s
- Came from Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): pseudonyms backed by binding agreements. Evidence (implied by the later work): Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012-02-05) http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/taking-a-crack-at-a-practical-system-introducing-the-escrownym-3004; How do we control the material world with smart contracts? (Devcon4) (2018-12-11) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoFRfA0TKSg&t=0s
- Came from Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013): networked property rights. Evidence (implied by the later work): Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/The_Smart_City.To_Whos_Advantage.Pocket_Devices_and_Data_Trails.Vinay_Gupta.pdf#page=4; Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/The_Smart_City.To_Whos_Advantage.Pocket_Devices_and_Data_Trails.Vinay_Gupta.pdf#page=10
- Led to Internet of Agreements (2017): named layer. Evidence (he says so): Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin (TechCrunch) (2018-09-27) https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/; Global real estate rail (Humanizing the Singularity) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Led to Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic: Blockchain, AI, and the Future of the Built Environment (2026): forward thesis. Evidence (he says so): Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Led to MATR (2024): shipped token; token as crypto application. Evidence (he says so): Permanent Summer: the new MATR token (Mattereum) (2024-02-29) https://mattereum.com/2024/02/29/permanent-summer-the-new-matr-tokenand-why-the-rwa-bull-market-goes-on-forever/
- Led to UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021): incorporate the rules into the dispute ecosystem. Evidence (he says so): UKJT Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (2021-04-22) https://mattereum.com/ukjt#page=4; Breaking Down Real World Assets: Crypto Daily, with Mario Nawfal and Vinay Gupta (2024-08-07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDu_KLWVCag&t=3600s
- Led to William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum (2019): first Asset Passport project with a public figure. Evidence (he says so): CCForum London 2019: Blockchain and the Future of Humanity (2019-11-25) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVcVYME8JIE&t=0s; Press release: William Shatner teams up with London firm Mattereum to fight fraud in... (2019-05) https://williamshatner.com/press-release-william-shatner-teams-up-with-london-firm-mattereum-to-fight-fraud-in-collectibles/
- Led to IG Wines with Mattereum (2022): Asset Passports for wine and whisky. Evidence (he says so): IG Wines partners with tech firm Mattereum (Wine Industry Advisor) (2022-06-24) https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2022/06/24/ig-wines-partners-with-tech-firm-mattereum/
- Led to West London City Lets land sale as an NFT (2022): land sold as a token. Evidence (he says so): The Second Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup, 21 Sept 2022 (2022-09-24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2WyNG8xN4M&t=1677s; The Second Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Meetup, 21 Sept 2022 (2022-09-24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2WyNG8xN4M&t=1827s
- Led to Swarm with Mattereum (2023): regulated trading of asset tokens. Evidence (he says so): Announcing Swarm x Mattereum Partnership (2023-07-23) https://mattereum.com/2023/07/23/announcing-swarm-x-mattereum-partnership/; Permanent Summer: the new MATR token (Mattereum) (2024-02-29) https://mattereum.com/2024/02/29/permanent-summer-the-new-matr-tokenand-why-the-rwa-bull-market-goes-on-forever/
- Led to The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019): defining physical objects for software; the data that prices a thing also tracks its footprint. Evidence (he says so): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s
- Led to Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024): legally binding models of shelters, such as their wind load. Evidence (he says so): MICA lecture 35:00, legally binding guarantees about the wind load a shelter will take... (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=2100s
- Sources (7, by hand first, then by importance): [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md) Home - Mattereum (2017); [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md) The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019); [716](https://guptaoption.com/texts/716.md) How do we control the material world with smart... (2018); [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md) Vinay Gupta's Big Idea: An Identity Layer for Your Things (2020); [680](https://guptaoption.com/texts/680.md) Blockchain technology, trade-offs, and helping launch... (2021); [672](https://guptaoption.com/texts/672.md) Lemon Markets (2022); [575](https://guptaoption.com/texts/575.md) 'How Top Create RWAnfts for artwork in galleries, and... (2022)

### Taming Black Elephants (2017) (about him, by others)

- Crisis planning; specified; work id taming-black-elephants; https://ipscommons.sg/the-black-elephant-challenge-for-governments/
- What: Singapore's former civil service head took up the black elephant idea in a lecture series and book.
- Summary: Peter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, IPS-Nathan lecture, 5 April 2017: a black elephant is visible to everyone, nobody will deal with it, then it is passed off as a black swan. The 2018 book collects the four lectures. The Centre for Strategic Futures' 2015 Foresight Conference proceedings list Gupta as a participant and credit an unnamed participant with raising the black elephant.
- Threads: black elephant
- Came from Black Elephant (2009): Singapore government foresight takes the term up. Evidence (he says so): CommunityZ Chest conversation with Michael Mainelli 9:07 (2020-06-27) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMQPTytHcHg&t=547s; Centre for Strategic Futures, Foresight Conference 2015 proceedings, p. 17 (2015-07) https://www.csf.gov.sg/files/media-centre/foresight-conference-2015-proceedings5e5de5d076d766deb7fdff00000cf313.pdf
- Sources (9, by hand first, then by importance): [683](https://guptaoption.com/texts/683.md) CommunityZ Chest - Vinay Gupta, Founder of Mattereum, In... (2020); [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md) Taming Black Elephants (2015); [159](https://guptaoption.com/texts/159.md) Taming Black Elephants (2017); [208](https://guptaoption.com/texts/208.md) Taming Black Elephants (2016); [157](https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md) The Black Elephant Challenge for Governments | IPS Commons (2017); [207](https://guptaoption.com/texts/207.md) Black Elephants (CCCR2018) - CSER (2019); [117](https://guptaoption.com/texts/117.md) The Black Elephant Lapel Pin & Logo | Metalabel (2009); [223](https://guptaoption.com/texts/223.md) Finding Each other in the Ruins - resilience (2025); [200](https://guptaoption.com/texts/200.md) black elephant (2009)

### Breaker (2018) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-breaker-2018; https://breakermag.com/vinay-gupta-thinks-tokenizing-the-world-is-the-best-way-to-save-it/
- What: Breaker interview: tokenizing the world as the best way to save it.
- Summary: 5 December 2018. Vinay Gupta Thinks Tokenizing the World Is the Best Way to Save It.
- Sources (5, by hand first, then by importance): [116](https://guptaoption.com/texts/116.md) Vinay Gupta Thinks Tokenizing the World Is the Best Way... (2018); [60](https://guptaoption.com/texts/60.md) Dealing in Security – Simple Critical Infrastructure... (2009); [158](https://guptaoption.com/texts/158.md) Pixelache Festival 2015; [213](https://guptaoption.com/texts/213.md) Vinay | Creativity and Crisis - Vinay Gupta. 29th...; [644] Imogen Heap - Internet of Agreements Conference (2017) (no text here)

### TechCrunch (2018) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-techcrunch-2018; https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/vinay-gupta-to-talk-about-mattereum-at-disrupt-berlin/
- What: TechCrunch coverage of Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin.
- Summary: 27 September 2018. Mattereum at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. Followed by on-stage quotes in November 2018.
- Sources (1, by hand first, then by importance): [183](https://guptaoption.com/texts/183.md) Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin |... (2018)

### Product information markets (2019)

- Economics of resources; argument; thesis; work id pim; https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- What: The Mattereum Manifesto: markets for warranted facts about physical goods, including their carbon and labor.
- Summary: The Mattereum Manifesto, 2019: green capitalism, product information markets, and the blockchain. Markets for warranted information about composition and qualities of physical things. Carbon and labour as product data. Lemon market is the cut. MAP is the instrument. Joins economics, cryptography, and environment.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; environment / green capitalism
- Connects back from The Future of Stuff (2020): carbon tracked like money
- Connects back from Spiral economy (2023): keep goods whole, dump the landfill
- Came from Ethereum launch (2015): blockchain as the information rail. Evidence (he says so): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 97 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Came from Asset Passport conceived (2006): identity of things, then a market for facts. Evidence (he says so): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Came from CheapID (2006): same pattern: claims about the object. Evidence (implied by the later work): State in a Box: Identity Services Architecture (CheapID) (2006) https://guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php; Half a Trillion Dollars a Year of Magic (Mattereum, Medium) (2026-01-21) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/half-a-trillion-dollars-a-year-of-magic-blockchain-ai-and-the-future-of-the-built-environment-69e1972f6b79
- Came from Winning the Oil Endgame (2004): green capitalism after oil. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; FutureRant talk 7:01, RMI's market-based responses [transcribed] (2016-08-29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCXTebVaJY&t=421s
- Connects back to Mattereum (2017): MAP is the market instrument. Evidence (he says so): Saving the Climate with Real World Asset NFTs, MoneyDance 2020 (2020-11-20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0y3eZrVtg&t=549s; COP26 Event: The Circular Economy, Finance and Data for an Abundant Regenerative Future (2021-11-22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn46s1BTMEA&t=1470s
- Led to Spiral economy (2023): information removes the doubt discount. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 123 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Led to Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020): product information markets as the engine. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 97 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 106 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md) The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019); [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md) Vinay Gupta / Mattereum Manifesto keynote at the London... (2019); [672](https://guptaoption.com/texts/672.md) Lemon Markets (2022); [507](https://guptaoption.com/texts/507.md) Product Information Markets (2025); [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md) The Mattereum Top Down Deck Day 6 (Lean Green Mattereum) (2020); [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md) Rich data capitalism: economics, environment and governance (2026)

### The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019)

- Crisis planning; argument; specified; work id stamps-2019; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go
- What: Talk on rehousing 300 million climate migrants in new cities, and the thirty-year Hexayurt plan, halfway through.
- Summary: Penny Stamps Speaker Series keynote for the Border Control Symposium, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art & Design, published 23 September 2019 (71 minutes). Expects 200 to 300 million climate refugees and argues for building new cities, about 30 the size of New York, rather than camps. States the thirty-year plan: from 2002, global capacity to absorb tens or hundreds of millions of people, halfway through, with the first live refugee test (ShiftPod). Also covers Six ways to die, joining Ethereum in 2014, and Mattereum's work with William Shatner. Ends on economies of omniscience: if everything is known, resources can be allocated well, a super information rich form of capitalism that also lets the environment be managed, since the knowledge needed to price a thing also tracks its footprint.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum; STAR-TIDES; hexayurt to chain; nuclear / panflu; rich data capitalism
- Came from Hexayurt (2002): the thirty-year plan, halfway through. Evidence (he says so): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 29:51 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=1791s
- Came from Six ways people die (2008): the six ways explained. Evidence (he says so): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 43:57 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2637s; The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 44:46 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2686s
- Came from Mattereum (2017): defining physical objects for software; the data that prices a thing also tracks its footprint. Evidence (he says so): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s
- Came from Internet of Agreements (2017): economies of omniscience. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s; The Internet of Agreements, World Government Summit paper, p. 12 (2017-02) https://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf
- Came from Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices (2013): economies of omniscience, named in 2013. Evidence (implied by the later work): Exploring Data Generated by Pocket Devices, p. 4 (2013-07) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/SMART_CITIES/The_Smart_City.To_Whos_Advantage.Pocket_Devices_and_Data_Trails.Vinay_Gupta.pdf; The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s
- Led to Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): the same knowledge systems, applied to treaties. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Cities That Will Walk Away talk 1:01:53 (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=3713s; Multipolar Realpolitik, appendix (2024-05-06) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AelylfOU517y0BI184sW7p8TnQl_oH8t4ajH6Fe4vH0/edit
- Led to Climate Projections 2: A lot of very boring graphs which all go upwards (2025): climate migration, then the climate data behind it
- Led to Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024): cities instead of camps, five years on. Evidence (implied by the later work): Stamps talk 38:57, modular relocatable cities rather than refugee camps [transcribed] (2019-09-23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWPv3Cl5Go&t=2337s; MICA lecture 7:30, refugee camps as startup cities [transcribed] (2024-04-18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeO2L8fBe8&t=450s
- Sources (3, by hand first, then by importance): [752](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md) Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019); [727](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md) Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024); [171](https://guptaoption.com/texts/171.md) Taming Black Elephants (2015)

### William Shatner collectibles with Mattereum (2019)

- Identity, law and blockchain; built; specified; work id shatner; https://williamshatner.com/press-release-william-shatner-teams-up-with-london-firm-mattereum-to-fight-fraud-in-collectibles/
- What: Mattereum partnership with William Shatner giving memorabilia legally backed digital twins against fraud, starting with a Captain Kirk figure.
- Summary: Announced during New York Blockchain Week, May 2019. Shipped Mattereum work.
- Threads: CheapID to Mattereum
- Came from Mattereum (2017): first Asset Passport project with a public figure. Evidence (he says so): CCForum London 2019: Blockchain and the Future of Humanity (2019-11-25) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVcVYME8JIE&t=0s; Press release: William Shatner teams up with London firm Mattereum to fight fraud in... (2019-05) https://williamshatner.com/press-release-william-shatner-teams-up-with-london-firm-mattereum-to-fight-fraud-in-collectibles/
- Sources (6, by hand first, then by importance): [252](https://guptaoption.com/texts/252.md) Vinay Gupta / Mattereum Manifesto keynote at the London... (2019); [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md) Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta 14th... (2023); [758](https://guptaoption.com/texts/758.md) #3 Vinay Gupta, Indexing the physical world (2019); [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md) William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum (2019); [197](https://guptaoption.com/texts/197.md) PRESS RELEASE: WILLIAM SHATNER TEAMS UP WITH LONDON FIRM... (2019); [256](https://guptaoption.com/texts/256.md) I'm coming to Malta (2019)

### CoinDesk (2020) (about him, by others)

- Press coverage; specified; work id press-coindesk-2020; https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/04/16/vinay-guptas-big-idea-an-identity-layer-for-your-things
- What: CoinDesk interview on an identity layer for physical things.
- Summary: Jeff Wilser, 16 April 2020. An identity layer for things. Mattereum Asset Passport in the press.
- Sources (84, by hand first, then by importance): [206](https://guptaoption.com/texts/206.md) Vinay Gupta's Big Idea: An Identity Layer for Your Things (2020); [42](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md) Home - Mattereum (2017); [165](https://guptaoption.com/texts/165.md) The Mattereum Manifesto: green capitalism, product... (2019); [167](https://guptaoption.com/texts/167.md) Global real estate rail (2026); [565](https://guptaoption.com/texts/565.md) Coin Telegraph AMA with Mattereum's Vinay Gupta 14th... (2023); [45](https://guptaoption.com/texts/45.md) PERMANENT SUMMER: THE NEW MATR TOKEN…And Why The RWA... (2024); [43](https://guptaoption.com/texts/43.md) William Shatner Authentication - Mattereum (2019); [44](https://guptaoption.com/texts/44.md) Announcing Swarm x Mattereum Partnership - Mattereum (2023); [594](https://guptaoption.com/texts/594.md) Mattereum Physical Asset NFT Online Meet-Up 27 July 2022 (2022); [722](https://guptaoption.com/texts/722.md) "10 Years of Ethereum... Tokenization is here." ---- RWA... (2025); [559](https://guptaoption.com/texts/559.md) Gold RWA arrive onchain! (2024); [258](https://guptaoption.com/texts/258.md) Mattereum - Decentralized Digital Twins (2019); ...

### Lean Green Mattereum: "We aren't just here to change the world, we're here to fix it" (2020)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id lean-green-mattereum; https://files.howtolivewiki.com/MATTEREUM/Lean_Green_Mattereum_screen.pdf
- What: 162-page deck tying it together: poverty and climate are one problem, a lean green development path is more plausible than bright green cities, and Asset Passports fund near-zero-footprint second-hand markets.
- Summary: A 162-page deck, its "second public release: proof of concept". Poverty and climate are one problem: "Our current emissions are 40 gigatons per year. Roughly 24 gigatons per year over our safe CO2 budget." Bright green urbanism needs close to tenfold gains, so it proposes a lean green soft development path modeled on Kerala, with hexayurt housing and SCIM for refugee cities. It reuses the 2003 investment, production, consumption and waste model: optimization reached the first two but not the last two, so financial and ecological data must share one product information market. Mattereum Asset Passports, cryptography plus insurance, remove the fraud discount and fund second-hand markets; it claims the approach "could take 5% or 10% off our global environmental footprint". It reprints Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; social enterprise
- Came from Three Rules for Designing the Social Enterprise (2009): reprinted in the 2020 deck. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 107 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Came from Product information markets (2019): product information markets as the engine. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 97 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 106 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Came from Soft Development Paths (2008): the soft development path, revisited. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 40 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; Soft Development Paths (guptaoption.com) (2008) https://guptaoption.com/7.soft_development_paths.php
- Came from Whole-Systems Framework for Sustainable Consumption and Production (2003): the 2003 economy model, reused. Evidence (he says so): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slides 82 to 91 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; The Mattereum Manifesto (Medium) (2019-09-30) https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/how-post-industrial-capitalism-and-a-new-type-of-big-data-will-save-the-planet-6574b1d75bf6
- Led to Spiral economy (2023): keep goods whole. Evidence (implied by the later work): Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 123 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view; Lean Green Mattereum deck, slide 128 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-enFJujd8rpDbwr8QezH-3YZ2Dpi45h3/view
- Sources (20, by hand first, then by importance): [236](https://guptaoption.com/texts/236.md) The Mattereum Top Down Deck Day 6 (Lean Green Mattereum) (2020); [723](https://guptaoption.com/texts/723.md) "Saving the Climate with Real World Asset NFTs" by Vinay... (2020); [714](https://guptaoption.com/texts/714.md) Autonomous A1 - Taming Capitalism with Vinay Gupta of... (2021); [819] Climate Projections 2: A lot of very boring graphs which... (2025) (no text here); [370](https://guptaoption.com/texts/370.md) Superstruct Report 1 (2008); [5](https://guptaoption.com/texts/5.md) Vinay Gupta one page summary; [736](https://guptaoption.com/texts/736.md) Mattereum (2024); [762](https://guptaoption.com/texts/762.md) MetaGame meets Vinay Gupta (2021); [4](https://guptaoption.com/texts/4.md) Vinay Gupta feasibility analysis; [846](https://guptaoption.com/texts/846.md) Wisdom spirals and doom loops: the deck (2026); [840](https://guptaoption.com/texts/840.md) Rich data capitalism: economics, environment and governance (2026); [62](https://guptaoption.com/texts/62.md) Global Swadeshi Dialogs – mostly deborked audio | The... (2008); ...

### The Future of Stuff (2020)

- Economics of resources; argument; specified; work id fos; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55945873
- What: Book on the philosophy under Mattereum: risk and morality in deals about physical things.
- Summary: Unbound, 2020. Philosophy under Mattereum. Risk at the ragged edge of the deal. Automate morality. Not a SCIM need; it is the stuff/economics frame.
- Threads: RMI to spiral; environment / green capitalism
- Came from Course of Action (2006): urban-rich environmental destructiveness. Evidence (implied by the later work): Course of Action (2006) https://files.howtolivewiki.com/Vinay_Gupta_course_of_action.pdf; The Future of Stuff, p. 25 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view
- Led to Spiral economy (2023): philosophy under the company. Evidence (implied by the later work): Conversation with Pat Kane 26:25, he plugs The Future of Stuff [transcribed] (2021-11-30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoHpEOXDkHQ&t=1585s; The Future of Stuff, p. 39 (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view
- Connects back to Mattereum (2017): ragged edge of the deal. Evidence (implied by the later work): The Future of Stuff (book text, p. 21) (2020) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDuLbVRLxtPz-BNRZKOJCljXbPVt6ohp/view; How To Address Climate Change: Diplomacy, Politics, Technology. COP 26 (2022-09-02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZ0Hpq5cQU&t=1167s
- Connects back to Product information markets (2019): carbon tracked like money
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### Stimson Center Loomis Council (2021) (he contributed)

- Crisis planning; built; specified; work id stimson-loomis; https://www.stimson.org/ppl/vinay-gupta/
- What: Member of the Loomis Council at the Stimson Center, a think tank on peace and security.
- Summary: Loomis Council member at the Stimson Center from 2021. The Stimson profile describes him as best known as Ethereum's 2015 release coordinator and the inventor of the hexayurt, and calls Programmable Blockchains in Context the standard Ethereum explainer released at the launch.