Whitepaper

The ZERAKET whitepaper.

Why secure event infrastructure matters, how we built it, and the trade-offs we made along the way. Written for technical buyers, partners and regulators.

1. Problem

Live events across Africa and emerging markets lose meaningful revenue to ticket fraud, duplicate scans, weak gate operations and fragmented payment rails. Existing platforms either ignore mobile money or treat security as an add-on.

2. Design principles

Edge-first delivery, so the platform stays fast on slow networks
Security as a product surface, not a compliance checkbox
Open standards: QR, NFC, OpenAPI, signed webhooks
Africa-first payments: mobile money is a first-class rail, not a fallback

3. Ticket integrity

Each ticket is a signed payload bound to a holder and an event. QR codes rotate on a short window to defeat screenshot resale, and the gate verifies cryptographic signatures offline. NFC binding is available for high-value tiers, and identity-bound tickets are supported for VIP and corporate use.

4. Fraud detection

Behavioural scoring on every order (device, velocity, geo, history)
Duplicate scan prevention at the gate with deferred reconciliation
Real-time sales-spike alerts to prepare ops for surges
Session revocation pipeline for compromised scanner devices

5. Money movement

A double-entry ledger writes immediately on payment success and is reconciled daily against provider statements. Payout tiers, platform fees and taxes are evaluated per organizer and per event so settlement matches policy exactly.

6. Privacy

We collect the minimum data needed to deliver tickets, secure accounts and settle payouts. African user data is primarily stored in-region. Personal data is never sold.

7. Roadmap

Deeper offline gate operations for festival sites with no connectivity
Privacy-preserving attendance analytics for sponsors
Open scanner SDK for venue and partner devices

Whitepaper, version 1.0. This document is informational and not a contract. Statements about future capability describe direction, not commitments.