Two new ticketers join the blockchain party

Shiv Madan's Blockparty and Monero-backed Tari join firms such as Aventus, Guts and Crypto.tickets aiming to revolutionise ticketing using the distributed-ledger tech

Elements Lakewood music festival
Blockparty will launch at Elements Lakewood © Elements Lakewood Music Festival

The co-founder of Ticketfly and a former NME exec are among the latest music biz figures to throw their hats into the ring of the increasingly congested blockchain ticketing sector.

Blockparty is led by Shiv Madan, formerly of NME.com, eBay, Lehman Brothers and wearable data start-up Ability, and launched at leading blockchain/cryptocurrency conference Consensus earlier this month. It aims to use the blockchain – a distributed ledger which permanently stores all transactions – to eliminate problems in ticketing, including…

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