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Smart Contract for Academic Certificate Verification Using Ethereum

2022; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-981-19-2980-9_29

1876-1119

Shivani Pathak, Vimal Gupta, Nitima Malsa, Ankush Ghosh, Rabindra Nath Shaw,

FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance

A certificate is a document that a person receives after completing a course. This certificate can be used for recruitment purpose and getting admission in a college or institution. There is no system in place for institutes/universities to share information place to detect counterfeit credentials in the admissions process. As a result, a blockchain-based approach for storing certificates is needed that will prevent admittance forgeries via fake certifications. The proposed system is based on blockchain technology, which boosts privacy, security, and openness efficiency while lowering costs. To combat this issue, the proposed system must be both immutable and transparent. This article gives an overview of step-by-step development methodology to build a blockchain-based academic certificate verification system. A smart contract is a critical component of this system. Using Sublime Text 3 as a text editor with Remix Ethereum as an integrated development environment, a smart contract called AcadCerti was created for holding certificates. Using this AcadCerti smart contract, certificates can be saved on the blockchain that can be utilised by the company's or admissions team's during recruitment or admissions process. Because blockchain technology has a transparency aspect, the same certificate can be viewed by the employer, admissions staff, and student. Thay all have access to this information at the same time.