Besides working hard on the development side of things we have also been busy opening an office in the Netherlands. Our office space is in the Techno House in Heerlen, Netherlands. The Techno House office complex hosts several leading technology companies and we’re very happy with the space we managed to get here. We are continually adding to the Blocktix team and the new office has been instrumental in helping the team build on the Blocktix plan to shape the future of ticketing.

Development of Blocktix

On the development side of things we have completed the Blocktix Alpha Web Application. The web application currently features all the requirements for the MVP:

- Creating Events

- Editing of Events

- Adding Ticket types and Tickets

- Buying of Ticket types

- Sending tickets to peers

- Selling tickets to peers

We have made a lot of progress on our Mobile Apps. The event feeds are now loading, the map views and list views are complete for both Android and iOS, you can now import and encrypt your ticket wallet in the mobile app, view the event details, and the most of the layouts are complete.

The next steps in mobile are getting the ticket categories and ticket type data, buying the tickets, as well as ticket redemption. Early next year, once mobile has caught up to the web application and the current developments have been completed, the ticket redemption will also be implemented in the web application.

In the first Quarter of 2018 we will be adding the local wallet flow, so that the web application can be used without Metamask, Parity or an Ethereum browser. We will also be adding the Event Vetting and Voting systems.

We are aiming to have the Advertising / Promotion system ready and integrated into the Web Application, as well as Phase 3, Credit Card integration for buying tickets and paying for the promotion directly with a credit card Q2 2018. After the credit card integration we will be enhancing the system to be able to use ETH, TIX and / or a Credit Card to buy tickets, as well as for advertising and promotion of events.

As soon as this is all in place we will be preparing for the full production release of Blocktix, including the contract voting and contract governance. The production release will deliver a decentralized ticketing system on the Blockchain with all future development and governance changes being decided directly by the TIX token holders.

In Conclusion

We hope you all will explore the Blocktix Alpha. This year has been an incredible amount of work and excitement with a sprint to the ‘Alpha finish line’ for Blocktix.

We are extremely happy with the quality and function of the finished Alpha build and hope each one of you will be equally as pleased. As you have read in past updates, we have big things planned for both Q1 and Q2 on the development side of things.

In following updates, we will be releasing more news regarding partnerships, ambassadors, marketing and of course our first events that will take place in 2018.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!