Ticketing Platform EventsFrame Is Entering Web3 With NFT Tickets as Tech-Savvy Event

When the pandemic disrupted the live events industry, the team at ticketing platform EventsFrame was “looking for things to do,” recalls Pavel Helstyn, the company’s head of business development. They already held regular brainstorming sessions about where the industry is going and how best to offer value, but these conversations turned into action and, as of this month, a new product. 

EventsFrame now offers a blockchain-backed NFT ticketing solution, an early realization of an idea whose potential has been bandied about in numerous panels and conversations over the past couple of years. While Candy Digital and Ticketmaster have created commemorative NFT tickets for MLB and NFL games, the tokens are not yet the actual means of admission.

“The whole thing is a huge pivot,” says Helstyn. “I think we can say we are one of the first few to the markets, and perhaps the only ones at this point who have a solution that can quickly be deployed at scale for event organizers.” 

Among the 4,000 event organizers who have utilized EventsFrame’s original ticketing platform are TikTok, the UN and TEDx, and that business will remain in operation. But the Prague-based company now has a Web3 option.

“We’re looking to enhance the experience for the people who go to the events, but also we’re looking at how you can monetize the improved experience,” he says.

Attendees who simply want to use a ticket for its original purpose won’t see any difference, Helstyn adds, but those who are more tech-savvy can buy these tickets with crypto, store them in an ethereal wallet or access exclusive content that event organizers attach to the non-fungible token, such as videos or memberships.

We’re looking to enhance the experience for the people who go to the events, but also we’re looking at how you can monetize the improved experience.

Teams, leagues or other organizers can employ NFT tickets to stymie scalping, earn royalties on secondary market sales or further monetize events. One such idea currently under development is a digital merchandise shop. Given the rise of the metaverse and other virtual experiences, Helstyn says event-specific apparel will have a home in Web3.

“It’s a developing process, and we are constantly finding new things that we should be working on. Obviously, there’s certain technology that’s underlying, but for example, one of the things that we’re working on right now—and that’s the next stage—is a merch shop, which should be integrated in our platform,” he says.

“You’re going to have the real-life sweatshirt, which is going to cost something, and then you’re going to have the digital sweatshirt, which is maybe going to be 30%, 50% less. But it’s still going to allow the person who goes to the event to take something away something to keep something very sustainable, something that they can keep pretty much…