We are a little over one week into the Aventus DApp Ideas competition, and have been thrilled to see so many great entries thus far. As we approach the September 3rd deadline the Aventus team wanted to share a few highlights from the competition!

If you are interested in taking part in the competition, please visit our Github repository to find out how! If you are interested in voting on entries, please fill in this form here.

A Re-Cap of the Aventus DApp Competition

Our DApp competition began on August 18th and is running until September 3rd. Each accepted entry will receive $30 in AVT. The 6 entries with the highest number of votes will be put through to our panel of judges, who will select the winning 3 entries by September 5th. The winning entry will receive $10,000, the second place $4,000, and the third place $1,000, all in AVT.

EngageUs — Integrated Voter Feedback

EngageUs integrates user feedback with ticketing in order “to deliver user involvement in a fairer and more controlled” manner. Event organisers will be able to breakdown feedback options by ticket category and have complete control over when they poll users. EngageUs will also integrate into the Aventus services layer to verify that only those who actually attend an event will be able to give feedback or leave a review.

Alertus — Social Network for Event Goers

Alertus is a way for fans to meet up and communicate before an event. Users would be able to send and receive free and paid alerts from/to other users in the same geographic region. This would allow them to coordinate their activities before an event, and create a more thriving fan community. The DApp will also have a section for those considering an event, allowing them to better inform their decision. Users will be able to filter which alerts they receive based on price, to avoid being spammed with low-value alerts.

Bibendum — Consumptions on the blockchain

Bibendum improves consumptions during events for the customers, while also improving consumption revenue for event organisers. Bibendum streamlines the consumptions purchasing experience by doing it all directly with AVT — no more fumbling around for loose change or wasting money on food/drinks tokens that are worthless after the event. Because Bibendum links in with your ticket and the blockchain, event organisers will be able to cap the amount any one event goer can purchase. This feature can prevent over consumption at certain events, and also allow event organisers to offer freebies to event goers, and ensure that they are only offered once per ticket holder. Bibendum will then leverage the data they produce, to help events and venues predict concessions demand and limit waste.

WayMus — Integrated Taxi Service

WayMus allows people going to or from an event to organise ride-sharing using geolocation, rewarding drivers in AVT. This will decrease road-congestion and parking nightmares, while making the trip more environmentally friendly and create affinities between users.

Zxeno — A Natural Interface

Zxeno leverages a technology that a most people already use, facebook messenger, to deliver event information. Users would be able to ask Zxeno questions about the event, and Zxeno would use AI to respond with a mix of graphics and natural language. Events could customize Zxeno’s interface to tailor it to their specific needs, and would also be able to use it for direct-to-consumer update. Users would be able to purchase and transfer tickets directly through Zxeno.

Merchy — An integrated Merchandise Platform

Merchy is a way for event goers to pre-order merchandise when they purchase their tickets. When their ticket is scanned at the venue, they would be diverted to a separate line where they would receive their merchandise. Merchy would free event goers from needing to bring payment solutions to the venue, where they could risk losing them. Merchy would also allow various social influencers to sell event-related merchandise, and receive commissions through the Aventus protocol layer.

STIX — Social Event Platform

STIX is a social event platform where visitors of events get to know each other in advance of the event and share experiences afterwards. “Event visitors want to feel connected. An event is all about experiencing it with other people. About interacting. With friends, but also strangers. The experience before and after an event is at least as important as the event itself,” says Rob, the creator of STIX. STIX will utilise the Aventus protocol to for receiving data about event attendees, and for selling tickets as well, in a manner that will be powered by STIX’s proprietary algorithms for matching event organisers to lucrative potential attendees. Where the platform gets interesting is when you also consider the advertising opportunities for artists and event organisers alike to target attendees with specific profiles, purchasing patterns, and social interactions.

SuperLOVE: Give Love, Grow Love — GLGL Rewards

SuperLOVE is a way for event organisers and artists to reward fans for purchasing tickets and merchandise before attending an event. By utilising the Aventus protocol for ticket sales, and creating the GLGL network with a token acting as a reward voucher on top, SuperLOVE allows ticket buyers and attendees to receive in-event rewards, discounts on food and drink or merchandise, and exclusive access to artist content. The benefit of SuperLOVE is that artists can now have better data about who their fans are and what they care about, and use that to targetedly advertise, release content, and plan their tours around.

12th Man — Fair Football Ticket Market

12th Man is a football ticketing market for fans, created by fans. By leveraging the Aventus protocol as its backend, it stops the significant problems of counterfeit tickets sold outside stadiums, it uses dynamic and auction pricing to avoid empty seats due to touts, and most importantly it allows season ticket holders to resell their tickets to individual games they cannot attend. The interesting part of this DApp is its focus on the football market only; according to Paul Corten, the creator of 12th Man, football fans have their own culture and community, and therefore the platform can almost have a social network element to it that could be later leveraged for targeted advertising.

Astadius Stadia Ticketing System

Astadius is a season-ticket and ticket market for sports stadiums, using the Aventus protocol to eliminate ticket touting and help stadiums reduce unsold inventory by making the pricing of tickets, the sale of individual tickets, and the sale of season tickets as simple as possible.

Zeus- Data-Driven Secondary Market Control Decisions

Zeus gives event organizers god-like insights and control over the mass resale market, by gathering metrics from the blockchain and generating a concise report for the event organizer. Event organizers can set short term and long term goals (e.g. eliminate or maintain the size of the resale market) and Zeus will recommend actions, like incrementing resale fees.

SwiftLink — Fixing What’s Wrong with Taylor Swift

SwiftLink aims to solve the problem of artists not being able to connect with their true fans who attend their events. Using the Aventus protocol, SwiftLink enables Taylor Swift to know exactly who the attendees to her events are by creating a trace throughout the whole resale process. Eliminating touts by ID verification for the most expensive tickets means that the event organizer can be sure about who is entering the venue at event day. SwiftLink comes to enable this interaction with a backend and a social media application (eg. Facebook App) for famous artists and large event organizers to gather data and communicate with their attendees.