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Pearl: US states and Ivy Leagues are developing NFT diploma certificates

Michael Pearl · He Called NFTs Sub-Optimal - Then Used One to Solve Inheritance · Sep 13, 2022 · at 15:56

Michael Pearl, COO of Kirobo, discusses on-chain identity and official documentation applications for blockchain technology.

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“I know that several companies are working with a few U.S. States, and obviously outside of the U.S. And with some you know, public organizations as well, like colleges and Ivy League universities on NFTing their diplomas, their certificates, and so on.”

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The claim, plainly

Several companies are actively working with U.S. states, foreign governments, and Ivy League universities to issue diplomas and official certificates as NFTs.

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Assessment

Public records, official government announcements, and university partnership releases confirm that prior to September 2022, multiple companies and consortia were actively working with U.S. states, foreign governments, and Ivy League universities to issue diplomas, vital records, and official credentials on blockchain/NFT-adjacent distributed ledger systems. Specifically: (1) U.S. States: The State of Illinois partnered with Evernym in August 2017 to pilot blockchain-based digital birth certificates, and California enacted legislation in July 2022 to pilot blockchain vital records; (2) Ivy League Universities: Harvard University co-founded the Digital Credentials Consortium in 2018/2019 to pilot distributed ledger credentials and diplomas, and Columbia University partnered with IBM in 2018 on enterprise blockchain credentialing; (3) Foreign Governments: The Government of Malta contracted Learning Machine in 2017–2019 for national blockchain diplomas, Singapore deployed OpenCerts in 2018–2019, and the Maharashtra State Board in India partnered with LegitDoc in 2020–2021 to issue diplomas on Ethereum.

In August 2017, the State of Illinois partnered with blockchain company Evernym to pilot digital birth certificates and state identity credentials on a distributed ledger.
In April 2019, Harvard University and MIT announced the Digital Credentials Consortium to develop and pilot distributed ledger infrastructure for academic credentials and diplomas.
In February 2019, the Government of Malta signed a multi-year contract with Learning Machine to issue all national secondary school certificates and qualifications as blockchain credentials.
In 2018–2019, Singapore's GovTech launched OpenCerts for blockchain degree certificates, and in 2020–2021 the State Government of Maharashtra partnered with LegitDoc to issue over 100,000 diploma certificates directly on Ethereum.

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[1] illinois.gov [2] ca.gov [3] futurism.com [4] route-fifty.com [5] edscoop.com [6] researchgate.net [7] highereddive.com [8] gatech.edu

companies partner "blockchain" "diplomas" university state government 2018..2022 "Blockcerts" OR "Learning Machine" "Ivy League" OR "Harvard" OR "Columbia" OR "Brown" OR "Cornell" OR "Dartmouth" OR "Penn" OR "Princeton" OR "Yale" "Illinois Blockchain Initiative" "birth certificates" OR "records" OR "diplomas" "Harvard" "Digital Credentials Consortium" blockchain "diplomas" OR "credentials" "blockchain" OR "NFT" "Harvard" OR "Columbia" OR "Brown" OR "Cornell" OR "Dartmouth" OR "Princeton" OR "Yale" OR "Penn" "blockchain" diplomas "foreign governments" OR "government" Malta OR Bahrain OR Singapore OR "State of" "Harvard" "Blockcerts" OR "blockchain" certificate OR diploma pilot

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