NFTs: The future of ticketing?

With artists and other sectors of the music industry capitalising on the opportunities presented by non-fungible tokens, IQ takes a look at the ticketing possibilities

Feature By Gordon Masson | 6 May 2021

Art auctions, album launches, video clips, gaming characters and even historic tweets have helped to put the concept of NFTs on the map, with hundreds of millions of dollars changing hands already this year for all manner of collectible digital assets.The rush to become a part of this lucrative 21st-century phenomena has seen a raft of start-up enterprises amassing impressive sums in funding from eager investors, while the publicity that art auctions in particular have enjoyed has helped NFTs become one of the most searched-for terms on Google.As a result, when it comes to leveraging the power of NFTs for ticketing, there is an ever-i

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