TIX

The financial primitive for live entertainment. Entertainment private credit meets onchain settlement. Powering @KYDLabs. Built by Ticketmaster veterans.

[TIX @tixprotocol]

Say hello to TIX

→ Onchain financing built on @solana for live events

→ Real liquidity whenever venues and artists need it

→ RWA ticketing with built-in royalties, resale control, fraud protection, and investor yield

A new era for live entertainment starts today

[TIX @tixprotocol]

@KYDNimale good tec

[Nimali @KYDNimale]

Then comes the plot twist.

These tickets were issued on @tixprotocol, a shared settlement layer for tickets built for KYD, StubHub, Ticketmaster, and the rest of the ticketing market.

Tickets now move seamlessly across companies.

And if you checked in, the network knows.

[Nimali @KYDNimale]

Really respect how @saumil has been engaging directly with hard questions from fans on Ticketmaster, bots, access, pricing, and resale.

As a builder in live events and a former Ticketmaster employee, I think this kind of direct dialogue is long overdue.

A few questions:

[TIX @tixprotocol]

Fandom is no longer just culture.

It is distribution, demand, community, and cash flow.

The next $1T economy will be built by creators that come from artist communities.

Tix Protocol exists to power and fund it.

[kyd. @KYDLabs]

For years, web3 promised to change creator-fan relationships.

Instead, social tokens, memecoins, and creator coins turned fans into exit liquidity.

The real unlock: creators like @KINGJARED300 owning their audience, accessing capital, and building community on KYD powered by invisible @solana rails.

https://t.co/U8YWARmmGs

[Nimali @KYDNimale]

I’m in service to venue owners who spent 20+ years building the stages that made stars like @billieeilish, @yungblud, and @ladygaga.

Live music is worth more than ever in the AI era.

But the tech, capital, and rails are broken.

We fix it or watch the American dream die for millions as music business owners.

This isn't it.

[TIX @tixprotocol]

Frontstage: fans and artists
Backstage: crypto rails, powered by TIX

[azeem @azeemk]

One of the constant themes in my writing for Forbes over the past year has been exploring where entertainment and culture are headed through the lens of digital assets.

Last week, I attended a Drake album listening party hosted by @KINGJARED300 at SOB’s in NYC. The event sold nearly 600 tickets and completely packed the venue.

Drake wasn’t there, though I did get a chance to chat with Rory from the Rory and Mal podcast, who’s also pictured here. What stood out to me is that this was an unofficial listening party with no involvement from OVO, yet it still sold out.

Jared represents a new wave of creators building real businesses around fandom and community. He’s been a dedicated Drake fan for years, built an audience around that interest, and has now hosted multiple successful Drake-themed parties across the country.

You might be wondering what any of this has to do with digital assets.

The platform powering these events is KYD Labs, which uses blockchain technology on the backend.

When people talk about empowering curators through blockchains, this is the kind of thing I’ve always been excited about. Not speculative memecoins or forced crypto integrations, but seamless consumer experiences where the technology quietly enables new business models in the background.

That’s what makes this interesting to me. Jared is effectively building a scalable community business using infrastructure most attendees probably never even think about.

I’m excited to write more about this because I think the next generation of cultural curators will look a lot like this, with blockchains powering the rails underneath it all. Article coming soon.

Also, Iceman is album of the year by miles 🧊🧊🧊.

[TIX @tixprotocol]

own and set rules to the the value you create, wherever it goes.

[Nimali @KYDNimale]

@tixprotocol

[TIX @tixprotocol]

Ticketmaster deploys $15 billion across 11,000 exclusive venues and earns 30 cents on the dollar.

That’s not a software business. That’s a bank.

@KYDNimale on @CCNCitizens and why @KYDLabs with TIX is going after it from the capital side, not just the software side.

https://t.co/2WAGLZRf0V

[kyd. @KYDLabs]

@_CallMeMacy the comments

[TIX @tixprotocol]

including this in our credit docs

[CHOI @arrakis_ai]

This GPT Image 2 prompt is going insanely viral right now.

“Redraw the attached image in the most clumsy, scribbly, and utterly pathetic way possible. Use a white background, and make it look like it was drawn in MS Paint with a mouse. It should be vaguely similar but also not really, kind of matching but also off in a confusing, awkward way, with that low-quality pixel-by-pixel feel that really emphasizes how ridiculously bad it is. Actually, you know what, whatever, just draw it however you want.”

[Patryk @Solofunk]

Onchain Credit.

That’s it, thats the tweet.

[TIX @tixprotocol]

@MarcinRedStone @Solofunk @humafinance @blackopal_fi @creditcoop_xyz

[kyd. @KYDLabs]

Building on @tixprotocol to bring access and transparency to live entertainment financing.

[Patryk @Solofunk]

Over $300 billion in stablecoins have been starved of yield.

Onchain credit introduces exogenous yields that fill the gap, with the asset class growing from $252.2M to $5.58B in 2025, a 22x increase.

This is the State of Onchain Credit 🧵

[TIX @tixprotocol]

@Solofunk I see a $8.5-10B private credit opportunity from the live entertainment industry coming onchain 🎟️

[TIX @tixprotocol]

A ticketing company is not a software business. It‘s an originator of private credit opportunities.

With TIX, we bring this asset class onchain.

[Patryk @Solofunk]

https://t.co/WNXbD5Q4mH

[Patryk @Solofunk]

@syrupsid @KYDLabs Onchain credit spans:

Payment finance (@creditcoop_xyz), physical infrastructure (@USDai_Official), entertainment (@KYDLabs), overcollateralized lending (@maplefinance), uncollateralized lending (@WildcatFi), home and auto (@Figure), etc.

Incredibly diverse and overlooked.

[Nimali @KYDNimale]

@tixprotocol exists to make sure the world’s biggest live moments, from the Olympics to the World Cup, don’t get hijacked by scalpers.

Appreciate @CBSLosAngeles having me on to say it plainly: “service fees” are just interest rates charged by ticketing companies pretending not to be banks.

[TIX @tixprotocol]

Blockchain rails to improve the systems real businesses are built on.

[kyd. @KYDLabs]

“Ticketing companies act as banks.

Whenever a show goes on, a venue typically signs a deal where they get capital upfront to pay the artist and the production.

Service fees are interest rates for that loan that the venue has taken from the ticketing company.“

@KYDNimale on @CBSNews discussing ticket prices for the 2028 LA Olympics.