When the Royal Spanish Football Federation announced this week that it was adopting a blockchain-based ticket distribution system, it brought in a tech company that is partly based in Halifax.
The federation – whose official name is the Real Federación Española de Fútbol, or RFEF – said this week it had partnered with technology company Nodalblock to develop a ticketing system based on blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies.
While Nodalblock was founded in Madrid and still has 15 employees in the Spanish capital, it received investment last year from Halifax-based Numus