Singapore Graduates to Start Receiving Blockchain-Based Certificates
Beginning 2019, graduates from 18 educational institutes in Singapore will receive blockchain-verified certificates, Tech in Asiareports, quoting Education Minister Ong Ye Kung.
The initiative is led by OpenCerts, which markets itself as “an easy way to check and verify your certificates.” It is an open-source government project that runs on the Ethereum blockchain and is still “in the early stages of progressive rollout.”
The group believes it has a blockchain-based solution that can help education in multiple ways, stating that it can check to make sure that a certificate has not been tampered with in any manner, and that the certificates can be adequately verified. A unique digital code is tagged to each Opencerts certificate.
If a certificate is tampered with, it will create a new hash, and the new modified certificate will “fail validation,” according to OpenCert’s website. OpenCerts can be emailed and shared for maximum efficiency.
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