Confido-Chain
A blockchain-based degree verification system.
Today’s world is abuzz with blockchain technology. But what does it actually mean? The blockchain is an immutable, distributed, decentralized peer-to-peer ledger replicated across multiple nodes connected in a network, which makes it possible to record events and transactions as they occur. It consists of blocks in a chain used to record digital assets using a secure algorithm.
There is rising popularity for blockchain technology, as you know. In fact, many industries find that blockchain technology facilitates completing important work elements better than current methods. Our project Confido-Chain is an example of how Blockchain is used to secure one’s data.
Introduction
Confido-chain is a Blockchain-based project which is made by Pushpi Karn, Faraz Alam, Nikhila Rajan, and Sahaj Mamgain, final year Computer Science Engineering students of Bennett University. Confidochain is a web app that seeks to aid the Degree verification process during job applications. This web app will provide a platform to store a student’s information relating to all activities of the students during their academic life, including student records, transcripts, and degree information. When an employer has to verify a candidate’s degree, he/she has to send a verification mail and the examination department of the university has to manually verify the credentials of the said candidate and revert back to the employer. With the recent surge in fraud degree forging, the question of legitimate credit has entered the picture. With Confidochain, we can securely save our documents as e-documents on the blockchain network. Blockchain is a legitimate and secure network to save documents, due to its cost-effective, efficient, and robust technology. We can totally eliminate the possibility of data fraud and data modification by any unauthorized person.
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Confido-chain provides its users a platform for them to store their information regarding their academic life like student records, degrees, and certificates. It is a web app that is made using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and private Blockchain as the backend.
Problem Statement
There is a manual process for verifying and certifying academic degrees used by educational institutions around the world, which is extremely inefficient. It is also error-prone and easy to manipulate and fraudulently manipulate the current procedure. Third parties are sometimes used by educational institutions to verify the accuracy of student records, which can be difficult and costly.
Education credentials are often verified by companies during hiring. Instead of asking for confirmation letters or scanned certificates, they ask candidates to provide confirmation letters. It would be impossible to verify the authenticity of the documents provided by the candidates.
To solve these issues we came up with the idea of the Confido-chain.
Solution
With Confido-chain, we can securely save our documents in the form of e-documents on the blockchain network. It will allow users to preserve important papers securely in a decentralized system, ensuring greater security. Our platform would also help in eliminating manual labor for checking the authenticity of the documents and making the process simpler and faster.
We would like to thank the School of CSET Bennett University, India for providing, our team, with this opportunity.
