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]

If you want to know how the live entertainment industry really works, check out this episode

[Around The Coin Podcast @aroundthecoin]

Host Stephen Sargeant (@lifesgt) welcomes @davbarrick, CTO and co-founder of @tixprotocol & @kydlabs, to discuss why ticketing is fundamentally a banking business and how blockchain can fix fees, fraud, and resale chaos. Barrick explains primary vs. secondary ticketing, how venues rely on ticketing companies for underwriting and advances, and why service fees function like “interest” paid by fans. They cover open distribution, speculative ticket listings, and why NFT ticketing failed by ignoring venue financing realities. Barrick introduces TIX, a Solana-based protocol plus a developer platform that lets secondary marketplaces verify ticket ownership, enforce resale rules, and automate royalty settlement without venues managing private keys. KYD Labs currently serves mid-cap New York venues and aims to scale toward larger markets, with a long-term goal of major issuers adopting TIX.

Watch the full episode now!
#aroundthecoin #podcast #Fintech #Ticketing #Blockchain #Ticketmaster

[Pedr◎ @Pedromiranda]

This is my villain arc. Blockchain fixes ticketing.

Use @xpticket and @tixprotocol on @Solana

Transfer rules, escrow, royalties will all be enforced onchain through metadata rules

Solana

[TIX @tixprotocol]

@Pedromiranda @xpticket @solana Say no more

[kyd. @KYDLabs]

Proud to be serving New Yorkers with ticketing they can trust.

Built onchain with @tixprotocol.

[André @anticustody]

calling it: global abs will be a go-to crypto event within 2-3 years. here is the capital that you actually want onchain

[Ink Daily @InkDailyTK]

Meet the Mentors Guiding InkWorks Cohort 00 🧑‍🏫

Building the future of tokenized finance takes more than capital.

@inkonchain mentors bring expertise across infrastructure, product, growth, distribution, investing, and education - helping founders turn promising projects into products that users actually adopt.

👇

▫️ @anticustody — Deep expertise in programmable payments, USDC settlement, and real-world financial infrastructure, head of growth for @KYDLabs & @tixprotocol

▫️ @MarcinRedStone —Co-Founder @redstone_defi | Oracle & data infrastructure leader powering billions in secured onchain value

▫️ @GSkrovina — Head of Fintech + Crypto @Lazer_HQ | Product execution specialist with experience shipping 250+ fintech and crypto products

▫️ @arlery — CMO @OctantApp | Growth, grants, ecosystem strategy, and crypto media expertise

▫️ @emilylai — Head of Marketing @Ostium, advisor for @hypepartners | Proven DeFi GTM operator helping teams find product-market fit and scale distribution

▫️ @anay_sim — Investor @bcap | Investor perspective on consumer crypto, market positioning, and venture readiness

▫️ @wminshew — Founder @0xSplits | Builder of onchain revenue and financial infrastructure primitives

▫️ @claudedonze — Consumer Crypto @greenfield_cap | Consumer crypto investor helping founders sharpen product and growth strategies

▫️ @ProofOfEly — Educator focused on making complex onchain products understandable to mainstream users

And shout out Ink core team to help these projects thrive 🗣️

Cohort 00 is live → https://t.co/cwzbHSssrh

[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.