Case / 002 · Education technology
Automating trust for half a million certificates.
Certificate verification took three weeks per batch of manual checking. We replaced the manual loop with a verification layer that answers in under a second.
The problem
- More than 500,000 student certificates needed to be verifiable on demand.
- Manual verification took three weeks per batch.
- Every check depended on an administrator in the loop.
The system
A blockchain-backed verification layer. Certificates are recorded once when issued; anyone checking one gets an answer directly from the record, with no administrator in between.
The architecture
- Certificate issued (Source record)
- Verification layer (Blockchain-backed)
- Instant check (On demand)
- Verified result (No manual step)
The implementation
- Blockchain-backed record of issued certificates
- Verification service answering checks on demand
- Manual administrator step removed from the verification path
The outcome
Verification that took weeks now takes less than a second, at a scale of more than half a million certificates.
- Certificates verifiable: 500k+
- Verification time: 3 wks → <1s
Capabilities used
- Venture Architecture
- Automation