A survey on blockchain-based student certificate management system

Abstract

Blockchain Technology's first application is Bitcoin. It started its journey with cryptocurrency in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto. After that, it travelled in many areas such as Government, healthcare, academics, supply chain management, Intellectual property management, social welfare, and energy system. Australia, UAE, Japan are some of the top countries using blockchain technology in various government projects. One can use blockchain technology with decentralised storage of data, which is distributed, immutable, tamper resistance, and securable with a consensus mechanism. Today, many government sectors, organisations, companies, and institutions follow blockchain technology using smart contracts that do not require third-party agreements. We have conducted a systematic survey on blockchain-based digital certification to find the research gap in this research work. We carry out the following: (i) Investigation on the reasons to use the blockchain in education system (ii) Classification of blockchain projects into five categories based on services provided by the projects and platforms used for development (iii) Identification of the services provided by the project and the technologies used for the development.