Design and Deployment of a Blockchain Ticketing Ecosystem for Secure Event Management

Abstract

This project aims to create, utilize, and evaluate a blockchain-based solution for event ticketing, addressing issues such as fraud, duplicate tickets, excessive fees from intermediaries, and unfair resale practices prevalent in traditional ticketing systems. The project develops a powerful stack of Solidity smart contracts on Ethereum/Polygon blockchains to standardise creation, ownership transfer, and resale policies for tickets. At the same time, a React.js frontend is being developed to create a fast and agile ticket purchase, reservation, and store transfer interface. This interface utilizes Metamask wallet authentication in a Node.js and Express backend, which connects to the blockchain using Web3.js. For decentralization and immutability, ticket metadata is recorded on the IPFS system, and its performance is verified by means of QR code scanning modules integrated into the IoT-based entry gates for real-time validation. The project was deployed on Ganache, and it has been tested on the Polygon Mumbai testnet for performance analysis under real-world conditions. According to the report, there is error-free validation for over 500 concurrent transactions, an 8–12 second average time to confirm a transaction, and an average 70% reduction in counterpart gas fees on Polygon compared to Ethereum. The system addresses user access, transparency, duplicate elimination, and secure resale tracking. This work fills the void between theoretical models and practical solutions, with a demonstration of such a scheme and quantifiable results, proving the applicability of blockchain ticketing systems for transparent and scalable event management that prevents fraud.