D'Ticket

We believe in the potential of blockchain to disrupt the event ticketing industry. We are leveraging the blockchain to enhance the ticketing experience for event organizers and attendees. This includes increased security and convenience of digital tickets, greater traceability and control over ticket resale, and strong loyalty and engagement with attendees.

There are 3 key features enabled by the blockchain:

1. Ticket Transfer and Resale (Under controlled parameters to prevent unethical scalping)
2. Provenance tracking to assuage fears over resale scams
3. Tickets as NFTs act as memorabilia and act as loyalty programs to keep attendees within the organizer's network

• Benefit to Event Organizers Be able to issue event tickets on-chain and limit prices during minting and future resale. Secondary buyers can easily verify the validity of tickets.
• Benefit to Event Attendees Event check-ins will be made easier with a seamless verification of the event ticket NFT ownership on the blockchain. No more archaic registration systems and less waste created with physical tickets
• Future New Use Cases

1. Having the ability to associate attendees with a certain wallet will allow organizers to distribute event rewards in a swift and secure manner. This means on-chain lucky draws and
2. Dynamic event NFTs can bring engagement to a whole new level. Imagine that your tickets evolve based on additional in-person activities you complete at the event.

• Road to Adoption The secondary resale market of event tickets often causes many issues for event organizers. At the same time, we see potential in digital collectible tickets for increased engagement in an increasingly metaverse-ish world. Our initial target audience could be reaching out to platforms that aggregate event organizers, such as Eventbrite, to look for potential partnerships with event organizers to mint their tickets on the blockchain. We can scale to larger events and more features of engagement from there.

We build our application on the Ethereum network first due to the network effects that we will be able to achieve. Our front and backend web3 stack consists of modern and nimble frameworks that can be easily modified and scaled for future use. Regarding sponsor tech, we aim to further implement Lens Protocol to facilitate on-chain social networks where attendees can view their own profile and friends' profile collections of event NFTs. Push Protocol can then be used for notification services that engage attendees on new events (event NFTs being issued). UMA can be used as an optimistic oracle source to deal with automatic ticket refunds. Polygon ID is used to verify the sale or resale of age-restricted tickets for example, to the appropriate users. In the future, as more events are minted and more resale activity picks up, we can definitely explore other layer-1 chains that minimize fees, perhaps SKALE or even MINA that integrates zero-knowledge capabilities right into its blockchain. We did not have sufficient time to implement everything in code, but we have managed to learn a lot and will keep these additional implementation ideas in mind.