How can it sustain millions of users?

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Ticketing points appear to be increasingly more widespread: The Rolling Stones live performance in 2016, the 2017 Fyre Pageant fiasco, Beyonce and Jay-Z’s 2018 “On the Run” tour, and most lately, Taylor Swift’s Period tour debacle.

Many consider that large-scale ticketing giants have held a monopoly on occasion internet hosting for the world’s crème de la crème. If the large fish don’t have the assets to fight this problem, what is going to the remainder of us do? Maybe we’d like a unique resolution altogether.

The problems with the worldwide ticketing trade are well-documented at this level. Bot-based tech has us preventing because of dynamic pricing and getting right into a mode of panic shopping for. Then there are hidden charges, queues and scams, scalping, counterfeiting, pricing wars within the resale market and extra. We will agree that it’s unfair and unethical. The trade’s in determined want of extra transparency and authenticity.

NFT-based ticketing has been making the rounds as a viable different. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have the potential to vary the ticketing recreation eternally. NFT ticketing may present a extra versatile and customizable ticketing expertise for followers. For instance, occasion organizers may create particular NFT tickets for VIP experiences or unique occasions, or permit followers to buy collectible NFT tickets that would improve in worth over time.

To not point out, there might be transparency across the variety of tickets obtainable and their pricing — with out the interference of techniques generated to trick shoppers. With the provenance that comes from NFTs, ticketing fraud might be considerably decreased and extra knowledge could be collected on the character of, and urge for food round, secondary gross sales.

Is NFT ticketing actually there but?

In reality, some corporations have already begun integrating NFTs into their operations. Ticketmaster has collaborated with Dapper-Labs-backed Move through the Tremendous Bowl and beforehand with Polygon to problem digital collectibles to its followers. Commemorative NFTs additionally changed ticket stubs at NFL occasions. Smaller corporations like YellowHeart, GUTS and NFT Tix are additionally popping as much as cater to Web3 occasions and campaigns.

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But when carried out on an unlimited scale for main world occasions, how can the underlying chain assist the tens of millions of customers who make transactions on the community on the identical time? In any case, the NFT world isn’t any stranger to congestion points, community downtime and gasoline wars.

Any general-purpose chain would discover it exhausting to deal with such surges in visitors. Think about Purple Sizzling Chilli Peppers or Dua Lipa tickets going reside, with tens of millions logging on on the identical time to make a purchase order. If we recall, NFT minting through the sale of Yuga Labs’ digital land overwhelmed Ethereum, because of which transaction charges skyrocketed and the charges alone for a single NFT buy amounted to greater than $3,000.

Scalability and its ensuing points like congestion, excessive charges and lack of safety proceed to hang-out dApps, even on main L1s like Ethereum — making mint occasions a dangerous proposition.

An app-specific scaling resolution may assist in such circumstances. However having a whole chain constructed only for an occasion is simply not possible. Following the occasion, there will probably be no on-chain exercise, making it a wasted useful resource. In such circumstances, an execution layer’s event-driven mannequin may do wonders. One can spin up an on-demand layer throughout the occasion, use it to problem tickets after which as soon as it’s bought, the layer will get disposed of and the NFTs reside on the underlying chain.

These within the occasions and leisure area may theoretically deploy an execution layer for ticketing and fan engagement and combine it with their layer 1. This is only one approach they’ll course of a large quantity of transactions with out giving their finish person a payment spike.

The psychological ‘block’ to utilizing blockchain

Whereas the youthful demographics is perhaps eager to check out a few of these applied sciences, ideas similar to a digital pockets or conducting transactions utilizing a crypto handle are nonetheless thought-about dangerous or overly sophisticated by skeptics. These individuals discovered the jargon and UI/UX difficult sufficient, and the 2022 market downturn simply added a recent dose of paranoia to the combination. So sure, we’re nonetheless within the early levels of this journey.

Even with L2s refining the ticketing provide chain and buyer expertise, broader adoption of blockchain must be embraced if we’re to see a live performance utilizing 100% NFT-based ticketing with zero parts of bodily documentation. These systemic points could be combatted with training, incentive packages which are engaging to a spectrum of demographics and advertising and marketing that makes its mark exterior the bubbles of crypto Twitter.

The occasions and ticketing trade — so deeply tied to music and leisure and adopted by tens of millions — has the potential to set these discussions in movement on a world scale utilizing advocates and ambassadors to make it the subsequent cool factor.

L2 expertise can onboard the subsequent million to the chain. They’ll convey within the subsequent wave of customers. However to try this, they should showcase their potential to the tens of millions utilizing platforms of popular culture, energy and affect, and never the few who have already got it.

Right here’s calling out to the entertainers and occasion specialists — let’s bid adieu to the ticketing troubles which have plagued you and work collectively to get everybody tickets to the subsequent gig.

Dr. Yaoqi Jia is the founder & CEO of AltLayer, the place he’s constructing rollups-as-a-service to convey scalability to Ethereum-based chains.

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