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EduChain: Secure Academic Credentialing with Blockchain

Authors
Rahul Rajendra Papalkar1, *, Kavita Kumavat2, Trupti Shinde3, Harish Motekar4, Aarti Sardhara5, Kanchan Katake6
1Department of Science and Technology, Vishwakarma University, Pune, India
2Department of Science and Technology, Vishwakarma University, Pune, India
3Department of Science and Technology, Vishwakarma University, Pune, India
4Department of Science and Technology, Vishwakarma University, Pune, India
5Department of Science and Technology, Vishwakarma University, Pune, India
6Department of Science and Technology, Vishwakarma University, Pune, India
*Corresponding author. Email: rahul.papalkar@vupune.ac.in
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Rahul Rajendra Papalkar
Available Online 6 January 2026.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-948-3_75How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Blockchain; Academic Credentials; Verification; Digital Credentials; Decentralized Records; Educational Technology
Abstract

Blockchain technology has a high potential to change the dynamic of academic credentials management as the security, transparency, and efficiency concerns that have plagued it are resolved. The traditional systems of providing and validating records are highly prone to fraud, administrative taxation and non-interoperability amongst institutions. This study examines the use of a blockchain to enhance and improve credential management and specifically presents a prototype-based platform to use smart contracts to robotically issue and verify academic records. The system improves the integrity of the data, reduce the processing times and provides modest interfaces to the organizations and end-users. The results of the first experiment that can be discussed as one of the indicators of how the blockchain could be used as one of the solutions to the problem of the improvement of the systems of academic records prove the hypothesis that both, credential security and verification rate are increased.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Innovation with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2025 (ICSIAIML 2025)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
6 January 2026
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978-94-6463-948-3
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-948-3_75How to use a DOI?
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© 2025 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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