teckel: Ticketing

Become the Master of Your Own Tickets:

With the recent flurry of high-profile artists raising serious concerns about the problems associated with the current approach to event ticketing, there is a clear demand for a better solution which benefits creators and fans alike.

News articles discussing ticketing issues for which teckel has a solution:
Recent Headlines

Core Problems with Current Ticketing:

  • Lack of Control — event producers/creators have little control of the ticketing process and pricing.

  • Scalpers — they create an undesired secondary market and compete against vendors for control of ticket pricing.

  • Fraud — tickets are duplicated or non-transferable tickets are re-sold.

  • Stolen, Lost, or Destroyed Tickets — loss of time and money in attempting to recover or reconcile.

  • Centralization — subject to DDoS attacks, single point of failure, monopolization, fraud, hacking and bandwidth limitations.

The teckel Solution:

  • A web3 (blockchain) solution comprising a suite of Ethereum smart contracts which encompass the entire ticketing process whilst preventing scalping, fraud, and loss.

  • Provides the creator/event-owner with full control over the ticket attributes: list pricing, maximum re-sell pricing, contract and ticket transferability, redemption, re-usability, creator commissions, tranche sizes and attributes, purchasing windows, event calendar, and transaction halting.

  • Innovative solution for the redemption process ensuring that ticket redemption cannot be spoofed or phished even if occurring at the venue entrance.

  • Fundamentally prevents automated agents (“bots”) from bulk purchasing and reselling of tickets.

  • Facilitates “recycling” of tickets for efficient re-use, e.g., in successive events.

  • Authenticity/Provenance/Transparency/Privacy: provides the ticket buyer with confidence and full and transparent control over purchasing and redemption whilst ensuring security, privacy and traceability via their Ethereum cryptographic key.

See this blog article from https://aws.amazon.com which summarizes the benefits of blockchain for ticketing. teckel embodies these concepts, and more.

teckel Provides:

  • A license to utilize the teckel suite of smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain which control the entire ticketing process, end-to end.

  • A suite of Docker containers to deploy under license providing the entire backend support for the Ethereum blockchain smart contracts. Think of these as a ‘mini Etherscan’ focused specifically and exclusively on the teckel smart contracts.

  • Prototype iOS and Android apps (plus source code) to utilize and/or extend under license, providing complete user interfaces (for ticket sellers as well as for ticket buyers) to the teckel smart contracts.

  • Utilization of the entire teckel ecosystem running on teckel infrastructure to manage your ticketing as a turnkey solution. (We recommend licensing and deploying your own teckel solution as your ultimate goal, but you can start with the teckel ecosystem as a convenient and rapid on-ramp.)

Contact us to discuss your ticketing objectives so that we may propose a teckel deployment plan suitable to your specific needs.
If you simply want to learn more about our approach (e.g., if you are a journalist or industry participant), we would be delighted to have a chat.