CredApp

This project aims to redefine how academic credentials are created and distributed by exploring the consistency, availability, and timestamping guarantees offered by blockchain systems.

Our academic certification process builds academic credentials following a hierarchal construction of smart contracts and establishes a causal ordering between all sub-certificates that compose it. The issuing of academic credentials no longer depends on a single institutional signature, and it is not anymore the product of a unique issuing event, but the result of a chain of signed proofs and operations between all involved parties that can be publicly verifiable.

This new construction ensures transparency and accountability of the issuer’s operations, allowing the development of a more trustworthy certification process that can be audited and accessed by any entity in the world. Further, the transparency of the certification process simplifies the detection of fraud both within institutions and due to degree mills.