If Nike doesn’t have it’s own resell marketplace/platform in the next few years I will be shocked. They are doing everything in their own power to make their shoes digital and keep it in house.
This new patent will allow you to buy shoes in real life AND get a digital version of the shoe that is digitally exclusive to you that you can keep in your “locker”. That way when you go to sell shoes to someone they can authenticate it by matching the digital token with the real life shoe and you can trade/sell it in person and online.