Service: Blockchain Verified Certificates

Responsible organisation: The University of Nicosia (Academic-Research)

The University of Nicosia has become the first university in the world to issue academic certificates whose authenticity can be verified through the Bitcoin blockchain. These certificates are being issued since 2015 to students who successfully completed or participated in DFIN-511 (Introduction to Digital Currencies), which is the first university course offered on the topic of cryptocurrency. Since 2017, UNIC started to issue all university diplomas on the Bitcoin blockchain using its own technology, which is developed as open source and has already been adopted by other universities and diploma issuers around the world.

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2014/09/16/university-of-nicosia-issues-block-chain-verified-certificates/#:~:text=Certificates%20for%20a%20pioneering%20course,anyone%20to%20verify%20their%20authenticity.
Start/end date 2015 -
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