The blockchain-based sports platform Socios.com wants to make it easier for fans to attend sports events in the future with a Corona pass. Stadium users should be able to use the software to prove their immunity.
Millions of sports enthusiasts worldwide are currently complaining about canceled events, competitions and impending ghost games. The situation particularly affects smaller clubs that rely on ticket sales.
The worst fears of sports associations, TV providers, the advertising industry and last but not least fans seem to be confirmed worldwide these days. After every professional league worldwide had to interrupt its operations over the past few weeks and the Olympic Summer Games had to be postponed until the coming year, visiting the stadium for fans and sports enthusiasts is a long way off.
The result is losses in the billions. Small leagues and clubs that depend on ticket sales are particularly hard hit.The Malteser sports platform Socios.com now wants to save clubs and organizers from impending ruin.
With the help of a blockchain-based Corona pass, the company, which is known for its fan tokens for various Champions League clubs , wants to pave the way back to the stadium for fans.
The Malteser announce this in a blog post this Monday, April 13th.The idea of the project is simple: If only people who are immune to the pathogen are allowed to enter the stadium, new infections can occur. In this way, clubs continue to receive the often urgently needed income from tickets and merchandise.
The so-called Socios passport is supposed to guarantee this immunity to the corona virus. In the future, fans will be able to store the test results of their responsible health authority on the platform. Socios in turn wants to verify this and compare it with the identity data of the users.
Stadium employees should then be able to use a QR code to easily check whether a person is sick, not infected or recovering and immune. The company wants to secure sensitive user data on an “independent blockchain”.
However, the Malta testers still have to face enormous hurdles for their Corona Pass. Governments and health authorities around the world have long been complaining about a lack of capacity for comprehensive, reliable tests for the corona virus.
In addition, scientists are currently disagreeing whether recovered patients have any immunity to the pathogen.
A recent study from South Korea recently raised doubts about this hope. 91 previously infected and thus putative immune Covid-19 patients again showed disease features. Researchers are concerned about whether this is a new infection or a kind of reactivation of the virus. The World Health Organization wants to clarify now.
Millions of sports enthusiasts worldwide are currently complaining about canceled events, competitions and impending ghost games. The situation particularly affects smaller clubs that rely on ticket sales.
The worst fears of sports associations, TV providers, the advertising industry and last but not least fans seem to be confirmed worldwide these days. After every professional league worldwide had to interrupt its operations over the past few weeks and the Olympic Summer Games had to be postponed until the coming year, visiting the stadium for fans and sports enthusiasts is a long way off.
The result is losses in the billions. Small leagues and clubs that depend on ticket sales are particularly hard hit.The Malteser sports platform Socios.com now wants to save clubs and organizers from impending ruin.
With the help of a blockchain-based Corona pass, the company, which is known for its fan tokens for various Champions League clubs , wants to pave the way back to the stadium for fans.
The Malteser announce this in a blog post this Monday, April 13th.The idea of the project is simple: If only people who are immune to the pathogen are allowed to enter the stadium, new infections can occur. In this way, clubs continue to receive the often urgently needed income from tickets and merchandise.
The so-called Socios passport is supposed to guarantee this immunity to the corona virus. In the future, fans will be able to store the test results of their responsible health authority on the platform. Socios in turn wants to verify this and compare it with the identity data of the users.
Stadium employees should then be able to use a QR code to easily check whether a person is sick, not infected or recovering and immune. The company wants to secure sensitive user data on an “independent blockchain”.
“[…] Football and sport as a whole are incredibly important for many people’s lives. That’s why we want to use our blockchain expertise so that fans can enjoy live sports again and clubs can recover from the consequences of Covid-19 ”,Socios founder Alexandre Dreyfus describes the drive behind the initiative.In order to avoid ghost games in the long term, he plans to make the software available to all interested clubs and associations free of charge in the future.
Corona Pass faces enormous hurdles
However, the Malta testers still have to face enormous hurdles for their Corona Pass. Governments and health authorities around the world have long been complaining about a lack of capacity for comprehensive, reliable tests for the corona virus.
In addition, scientists are currently disagreeing whether recovered patients have any immunity to the pathogen.
A recent study from South Korea recently raised doubts about this hope. 91 previously infected and thus putative immune Covid-19 patients again showed disease features. Researchers are concerned about whether this is a new infection or a kind of reactivation of the virus. The World Health Organization wants to clarify now.
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst Without even discussing that the current virus is yet poorly understood and we don't fully know the immunity impact of previously infected, immunity cards, or passports, or whichever name we put, are a step in what is going to be a new normal of the surveillance capitalism. The dialogue or debate between personal and societal safety and privacy rights is very open and raw just now.