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Encryptix

Encryptix: The world's 1st on-chain ticketing platform leveraging INCO, Hyperlane, and Base Chain for unparalleled privacy and security. Empowering event ticketing with Web3 innovation and decentralized privacy!

Encryptix

Created At

ETHGlobal Bangkok

Winner of

Blockscout - Blockscout Explorer Big Pool Prize

Prize Pool

Project Description

Encryptix: Revolutionizing Event Ticketing with On-Chain Privacy

Encryptix is the world's first on-chain ticketing platform, designed to transform the event ticketing industry by combining Web3 innovation, privacy-first infrastructure, and decentralized ownership. Built with cutting-edge blockchain technologies, Encryptix ensures unparalleled privacy, transparency, and control for users and event organizers alike.


Core Features

  1. Privacy by Design
    Encryptix prioritizes user privacy using advanced cryptographic solutions. Wallet connectivity is powered by Privy, offering seamless integration while safeguarding personal data and transaction histories.

  2. World-Class Infrastructure

    • INCO: Ensures confidential on-chain computations to protect user and ticket data.
    • Hyperlane: Enables cross-chain interoperability, allowing tickets to function seamlessly across multiple blockchains.
    • Base Chain: A robust and scalable Layer 2 blockchain to manage high throughput and reduce costs without compromising security.
  3. Secure Smart Contracts

    • Our smart contracts are designed for ticket minting, ownership management, and royalty distribution.
    • Built on ERC-721 standards, these contracts allow for unique, tamper-proof tickets.
  4. Fully Decentralized Ticket Lifecycle
    From minting to resale, Encryptix empowers event organizers and attendees with:

    • Transparent pricing mechanisms.
    • Automated royalty payments for creators.
    • Secondary market features that benefit both creators and ticket holders.
  5. Seamless Wallet Management

    • Wallet integration is powered by Privy for ease of access and security.
    • Ticket purchases and payments are gas-efficient and frictionless, ensuring smooth UX.

How Encryptix Works

  1. Ticket Creation
    Event organizers mint event tickets as ERC-721 NFTs on Base Chain.

  2. Private Ticket Management
    Using INCO, ticket details and transactions are kept private, ensuring no unnecessary exposure on the blockchain.

  3. Interoperability
    Through Hyperlane, tickets are accessible across multiple chains, enabling a borderless experience for global events.

  4. Wallet and User Onboarding
    Users connect their wallets via Privy, eliminating traditional complexities while maintaining complete privacy.

  5. Secondary Market Trading
    Encryptix ensures fair value distribution in the resale market with royalties automatically distributed to event creators.


Technical Architecture

  1. Infrastructure

    • INCO: Privacy-preserving smart contract computations.
    • Hyperlane: Cross-chain operability.
    • Base Chain: Efficient, secure L2 for scalability.
  2. Smart Contract Design

    • Built on ERC-721 standards.
    • Integrated royalty and ownership transfer logic.
  3. Frontend

    • Developed using Next.js for high-performance, user-friendly interfaces.
  4. Wallet Integration

    • Privy for secure and seamless user authentication and wallet management.

Why Encryptix?

Traditional ticketing systems suffer from inefficiencies, lack of transparency, and poor user privacy. Encryptix solves these challenges by offering:

  • Privacy: Users’ data is encrypted and secure at every stage.
  • Ownership: Tickets are verifiable, unique, and fully owned by the purchaser.
  • Fairness: Transparent pricing and resale mechanisms eliminate scalping and exploitation.
  • Accessibility: Cross-chain operability ensures accessibility for global audiences.

Use Cases

  • Concerts and Music Festivals
    Mint and distribute tickets with private details and transparent royalty mechanisms.
  • Conferences and Corporate Events
    Manage ticketing for large-scale events with privacy and efficiency.
  • Sports Events
    Ensure fair pricing and secondary market value distribution.

Encryptix isn’t just a platform—it’s a revolution in event ticketing, merging the best of blockchain and privacy-focused technology to empower users, creators, and event organizers.

How it's Made

How Encryptix Is Made

Encryptix is built using cutting-edge blockchain technologies, cryptographic tools, and privacy-first frameworks to deliver a seamless and secure on-chain ticketing platform. Here's a breakdown of the technologies and the thought process behind building Encryptix:

Core technologies include smart contracts built on Base Chain, a highly scalable and efficient Layer 2 blockchain, to ensure low latency and cost-effective transactions. The smart contracts are based on the ERC-721 standard for NFT-based tickets, ensuring each ticket is unique, non-fungible, and tamper-proof. Custom royalty logic ensures fair value distribution in secondary ticket sales, directly benefiting event organizers and creators.

INCO is used to enable private, on-chain computations for sensitive ticket data. This ensures that details like ticket ownership, pricing, and user identity remain confidential. INCO allows us to manage private state transitions while preserving blockchain immutability.

Hyperlane provides seamless interoperability across multiple chains, allowing Encryptix to break the boundaries of isolated blockchain ecosystems. Tickets minted on Base Chain can be accessed, verified, and transferred across other blockchains, enabling a borderless ticketing experience for global users.

Privy powers wallet integration, offering a secure and privacy-focused user onboarding experience. Privy handles wallet authentication and ticket purchases with zero exposure of sensitive user data, aligning with Encryptix’s privacy-first philosophy.

The frontend is built with Next.js, leveraging its high-performance framework for smooth, responsive, and scalable user interfaces. The UI design is crafted with Tailwind CSS, ensuring consistency and elegance throughout the platform.

The system architecture includes ticket lifecycle management, where event organizers create tickets using our dashboard, which triggers the ERC-721 ticket-minting smart contract. INCO processes and encrypts the ticket details for private on-chain storage. Once minted, tickets are distributed to users’ wallets, enabling secure ownership. Hyperlane acts as a communication bridge, facilitating ticket verification and transfer across chains. This ensures that users can attend events regardless of their preferred blockchain ecosystem.

Base Chain’s efficient transaction handling significantly reduces gas fees, making ticket purchases and transfers economical for users. INCO’s optimized computations minimize overhead while maintaining data privacy. The combination of Privy and Next.js ensures that users can easily connect their wallets and navigate the platform without technical friction. Gasless transactions are implemented where possible to further enhance the user experience.

Unique challenges include addressing privacy on public blockchains. Public blockchains inherently expose transaction details, which conflicts with our goal of ticketing privacy. Using INCO, we were able to encrypt and compute sensitive data securely while maintaining transparency where needed. This was one of the trickiest components to implement, as it required balancing usability and privacy in a decentralized environment.

Integrating Hyperlane for cross-chain functionality was a significant undertaking. It required ensuring tickets minted on Base Chain retained their functionality and validation when transferred across chains. We implemented strict interoperability protocols to ensure ticket metadata and ownership remain consistent during cross-chain interactions.

Designing a system that automatically distributes royalties from secondary sales required extending the ERC-721 standard. We built custom logic that calculates royalties dynamically and enforces payments in secondary markets.

Using Privy, we achieved a hack-free, privacy-respecting wallet connection system that feels as easy to use as traditional Web2 platforms while maintaining the benefits of decentralization.

Partner technologies such as INCO delivered critical privacy features for ticket storage and transactions, enabling Encryptix to stand out as a privacy-first platform. Hyperlane allowed global scalability by making tickets accessible across multiple blockchains, a game-changer for interoperability. Base Chain enabled low-cost, high-speed transactions, ensuring Encryptix is accessible and scalable for real-world use cases. Privy simplified wallet integration and onboarding while upholding our privacy standards.

Encryptix combines these technologies to create a decentralized, privacy-preserving, and globally accessible ticketing solution, setting a new standard for event management and user empowerment.

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