Internet Of Agreements

Full video and transcript below. On April 10th, Mattereum hosted the third Internet of Agreements® (IoA) conference at the Google Campus in London. …

On October 13th-16th, Mattereum hosted the first Internet of Agreements™ (IoA) conference at the UK Government’s Digital Catapult in London. IoA™ is a vision for global supply chains and logistics, integrating national laws and regulation with international commerce through the application of technology such as blockchains and smart contracts. During…

At the Brighton Digital Festival in 2017, I gave a talk on the future of the blockchain. I talked about: Using blockchains to manage contractual rights Tokenisation of assets Legal enforceability of smart contracts Resolving disputes that arise from smart contracts On a similar theme to Vinay’s recent post, I…

Today, we make smart contracts legally enforceable The initial success in the blockchain space has been to create purely digital assets (Bitcoin, Ether, ERC20 tokens) that can be traded internationally. Our first customers come from the blockchain space. Our customers want our help to bridge the divide between the atomic exchange of value for on-chain assets via…

From open source innovation to the vanguard of the blockchain movement; the ‘global resilience guru’ discusses the conflicts, dangers and opportunities of the world to come. The future we are facing calls for new perspectives, new concepts and new guides. How, then, should we introduce Vinay Gupta — a man…

Video and transcript below. Slides available here. This talk explains the use of insurance to integrate various blockchain identity solutions into a usable whole. This talk title I basically put up kind of as a joke, because nobody really thinks about what they do as ontology, except for maybe…

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on May 17th 2017 Co-authored with Rob Knight Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor…

In this post, I’m going to examine how tokens can differ from traditional financial instruments, in particular how they might allow for new kinds of “ecosystem” investments. When someone founds a business, they generally expect the business to make money. Typically this involves buying goods or services from suppliers, hiring…