Vinay Gupta is CEO of Mattereum and founder of Hexayurt Capital and Internet of Agreements. He coordinated Ethereum’s 2015 launch, acted as strategic architect at Consensys, the leading crypto venture studio, and designed Dubai’s National Blockchain Strategy. Vinay has a strong track record of thought leadership in environmental and infrastructure risk, failing states, energy policy (with five years' residency 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 an associate fellow at the UCl Institute for Security and Resilience. He is also known as the inventor of hexayurts—a cheap, simple, non-patented, and open-source refugee shelter that has gone on to become iconic in the Burning Man counter culture.