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TickEth, a ticketing system built on ethereum

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Pietro Corsi,

Giovanni Lagorio,

Marina RibaudoAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '19: Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 409 - 416

https://doi.org/10.1145/3297280.3297323

Published: 08 April 2019 Publication History

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We propose TickEth, a system that aims at mitigating some of the problems encountered by the ticketing industry. The name TickEth is built by combining the words ticket, its application domain, and Ethereum, the underlying platform we adopted for the development of the prototype.

Nowadays, ticketing ecosystem is wide and fragmented, and faces several problems. TickEth exploits Ethereum smart contracts to tackle the inability of checking the authenticity of tickets sold online (that can be fake or duplicates of a real ticket), the wild price range of resold tickets in the secondary market, and the unwieldy refund procedures.

TickEth is an open specification, where different third-party clients can freely interact, and can be instantiated by different vendors as they like. We implemented a proof-of-concept prototype, available at: https://github.com/H221/TickEth

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TickEth, a ticketing system built on ethereum
1. Applied computing
  1. Electronic commerce
    1. E-commerce infrastructure
2. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
      1. Peer-to-peer architectures

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SAC '19: Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

April 2019

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ISBN:9781450359337

DOI:10.1145/3297280

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Kennesaw State University, Marietta, Georgia
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University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

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Shah SSoni SObaidat MAdav NHathaliya JTanwar SYamsani N(2024)Blockchain-Assisted Secure and Trusted Ticketing System for Outsourced Premier League2024 International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity, and Informatics (CCCI)10.1109/CCCI61916.2024.10736458(1-6)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2024
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