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Who Are We?

Founded in 2017 by Ethereum launch coordinator Vinay Gupta, Mattereum is a cutting edge technology startup headquartered in London. 

Our innovative Mattereum Asset Passport makes it possible to tokenize, fractionalize and trade high value real world assets like gold, real estate and fine art safely, worldwide, on the blockchain. 

The Mattereum Asset Passport does this by binding real world asset tokens to detailed product descriptions of the physical assets. These provide evidence that the token purchasers have ownership of the physical asset represented by the token and are backed by legal warranties that also attest to the truth of the product descriptions. 

Mattereum brings an unprecedented level of safety and reassurance to trade in real world assets on the blockchain. No other company can provide this service. 

It works for:

Everyone

Mattereum makes it easy for everyone to buy and sell high value assets

Everything

Mattereum aren’t limited to a single asset class or sector

Everywhere

Mattereum’s legally binding warranties are enforceable in 170 countries worldwide

just one world

Mattereum makes it just one world for trade. Mattereum can work directly with owners to tokenize and fractionalize their assets, or with other real world asset (RWA) companies to provide a legal layer for their projects.

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

Founded by Ethereum launch co-ordinator Vinay Gupta to get smart contracts recognized as legal contracts in court and then use them to facilitate trade on the blockchain. This is intended to enable buying, selling, renting, permissioning, managing, financing and all other kinds of use cases

2019
2019

Launches the Mattereum Asset Passport (MAP) – enabling owners of on chain tokens to claim legal ownership of related physical assets for the first time and to have the descriptions of the physical assets backed by legal warranties

2021
2021

Contribute to the development of the UK Jurisdiction Task Force’s Digital Dispute Resolution Rules (DDRR) which realize Mattereum’s goal of getting smart contracts recognized as legal contracts

2021
2021
Mattereum is the first company to fully implement the DDRR
2021
2021

Mattereum trials the fully functioning MAP by selling a range of Hollywood collectibles in the $500 range in partnership with William Shatner

2022
2022
First high value asset sold as a token with a MAP, a trumpet owned by leading EDM DJ Timmy Trumpet. Sold for $100,000
2022
2022
First $1m+ real estate listed on chain with a MAP
2023
2023

Forms partnership with German regulated exchange Swarm to tokenize and fractionalize high value assets to be sold with MAPs

2024
2024

Brings large scale tokenized gold backed by MAPs on chain in partnership with Swarm

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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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