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Who Are We?

Founded in 2017, Mattereum is a company that builds digital and legal infrastructure to enable the sale and lease of physical property and other assets through smart contracts using Ethereum blockchain technology.

We help create a doubt-free environment for trade in luxury goods, art, antiques, and other items where authenticity is important.

We do this by creating Mattereum Asset Passports, which are detailed product descriptions of physical assets backed by legal warranties. Our platform supports circularity and the transfer of rights of physical assets through NFTs.

Purpose

To eradicate mistrust from global e‑Commerce and make it safe for high value assets

Vision

An e‑commerce ecosystem for high value assets that enables fearless buying decisions

Mission

Reimagine e‑commerce so that buying high value assets is easy, transparent and low risk

Duties

A duty to be trustworthy
Transparency – being open and honest in all communications related to the business
A duty to be accountable
Accepting responsibility for honest and ethical conduct towards others. A willingness to be judged on performance
A duty to be increasingly sustainable
Effect on the environment – creating a long-term overall positive effect on the planet, its diverse inhabitants, and its complex interrelated systems
A duty to act equitably
Decisions – be impartial and open-minded; make judgements that are free from discrimination or dishonesty, that serve the business
Actions – take actions which result in overall mutual benefit to all relevant and affected parties

History

Mattereum’s Journey So Far

2017
2017

Mattereum was founded in 2017 to provide a vital, life-giving service to the entire Ethereum ecosystem: the ability to get smart contracts recognized as legal contracts in court. The path to that objective was long and complicated and the blockchain space rushed forwards without strong legals.

The result was derailment of the original Ethereum vision: a World Computer  (2015 Ethereum Foundation video) which could reach the real world and enable buying, selling, renting, permissioning, managing, financing and all other kinds of use cases.

2021
2021

We started offering services to clients in 2021 with a range of Hollywood collectibles in the $500 range, and the most valuable thing yet sold is a $102,000 trumpet. Our first real estate client is live on OpenSea right now.

2023
2023

We believe we are the world leaders in applying the blockchain to the real world, because we solve the legal bonding problem: pairing cryptographic assets to real assets in a way which is enforceable in 170 countries.

We hope you’ll come with us as we help you to create the world we were all promised.

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Mattereum team

Our core team brings with it extensive expertise in the blockchain, law and international commerce

FOUNDER & CEO

Vinay Gupta

Vinay Gupta is Founder and CEO of Mattereum. He is a leading figure in the blockchain space, having coordinated the release of the blockchain platform Ethereum in July 2015, and was a strategic architect for ConsenSys Systems, a technology hub focusing on the Ethereum blockchain and related applications.

He helped architect the National Blockchain Strategy for Dubai. He has been involved in commercial software development since 1992, with long stints in energy policy and defence think tanks, and his experience as a programmer and visionary has covered fields as diverse as medical imaging, flight simulation, cryptographic applications and the web, as well as energy policy, disaster relief, and grand strategy for poverty alleviation.

A futurist interested in the technological transformation of society and commerce, Vinay has a strong track record of thought leadership in environmental and infrastructure risk, failing states, energy policy (with five years at the Rocky Mountain Institute) and disaster management.

He was on the editorial team of Small is Profitable, the winner of the 2003 Economist Book of the Year, and has contributed to US Department of Defense research, advised Arup on urban resilience and was associate fellow at the UCl Institute for Security and Resilience.

He has long had a humanitarian concern with the condition of the poorest in society and disaster relief. He invented the cheap, simple, non-patented and open-source hexayurt refugee shelter which has gone on to become iconic in the Burning Man counter-culture. In his techno-realist view, technology and engineering, including blockchain, can contribute to positive social and commercial transformation and help deal with resource scarcity.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Anton Shelupanov

Anton is Mattereum’s Managing Director. He oversees the company’s overall operations, governance, delivery and public affairs functions. Prior to joining Mattereum Anton has led major international initiatives in the justice and policy fields.

He has worked with dozens of governments and judicial systems in Europe, Asia, America and Australia, written legislation for nation states, and developed transnational policy and strategic guidance for international government bodies such as the UNODC and the World Health Organisation. Anton has managed teams in settings including academia, charities and the private sector. He is the author of two books, several reports and many articles. He was educated at Oxford University.

HEAD OF ONTOLOGY

Dr. James Hester FRSA

James, Mattereum’s Head of Ontology, brings twenty years of experience documenting and caring for priceless objects in the museum and heritage world to gathering and organising the information which forms Mattereum Asset Passports. Prior to joining Mattereum, James served as a curator and educator for a number of museums in the US and the UK, most notably as Royal Armouries Curator of Collections at the Tower of London. He received his PhD in 2018 from the University of Southampton anaylysing medieval arms and armour to better understand how they were used.  

TECHNICAL ADVISOR

Thomas Barker

Thomas is an experienced fintech software developer with a background of working across multiple in-house exchanges and trading systems. He was formerly with BullionVault. He holds an SII Certificate in Securities & Financial Derivatives.  

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