Blockchain-Enabled Digital Credentialing: A Hybrid Architecture for Academic Verification
Abstract
The mathematical shift of education and service environments has severed the need for reliable, bribe-evidence & universally provable academic references. The current credentialing structures encounter some of the questions, like counterfeiting of documents, useless verification, questions accompanying interoperability, and limited scalability. This paper proposes a composite blockchain-authorized architecture for academic attestation proof that integrates on-chain attestation hashing accompanying off-chain depository and smart contracts for secure, dispersed & privacy-continuing attestation administration. Using Hyperledger Fabric to provide permissioned control and IPFS to supply delivered storage, the construction is planned to be expected scalable and obedient, accompanying solitude regulation (like GDPR) in addition to in the here and now. Using a fake dataset of student references from IEEE DataPort and UCI warehouses, we evaluate the model against guideline concentrated proof systems, benchmarking acting in conditions of abeyance, throughput, integrity & proof veracity. These results display a considerable increase in instability, adeptness of processing, and auditability, which shows that blockchain may bethe best choice alternative to build large-scale, trustworthy, all-encompassing academic attestation ecosystems.