VertChain: Vert-ify Credentials, Block-ify Achievement
1Form 3, Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School, Kowloon, HKSAR (China)
2Form 1, Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School, Kowloon, HKSAR (China)
A Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for IBCOL 2023
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Abstract
Inequality of opportunities for students with disadvantaged backgrounds such as disabilities and lower socio-economic status has been a long term issue globally.
Manual credential verification through phone calls, costly unstandardised traditional verification platforms have caused extreme administrative burden in admission offices and human resources. As a result, the inability to logically verify students has placed disprivileged students to a disadvantage because of discrimination and reliance on instinct. Therefore, such students have lost the opportunity in employment and education.
Emphasizing with such talented students, VertChain revolutionizes both traditional and blockchain education credential space, in order to provide a verifiable and easy-onboarding platform for education institutes, students and admission organizations.
Through Vertchain, schools and students would be able to fully sovereign their student’s credentials, while giving students the ownership of their achievements, allowing verifiable details of the student to be attached to an unique blockchain file format. This creates a standardized approach to verification through mutual agreement without any intermediates and compatible both on-chain and off-chain, bridging lower income schools to the blockchain era.
Noticing the lack of verifiable opportunities in the perspective of disadvantaged students, VertChain onboards legacy systems with online learning platforms, scholarships and competitive opportunities. Relieving administrative burden to convert traditional digital certification through blockchain intermediates. Students would be able to gain full ownership for awarded credentials immediately after completion of achievement, stored in their unique decentralized identity.
VertChain block-ifys education, verified achievement. Creating equal opportunity for talented youth that have been overlooked.