Proposal for C4GT 2022 | Project Idea: Competency Passbook | Ansh Sarkar | Date: 4th June 2022
The boom in blockchain technology and India’s prominent 2nd position in the world crypto landscape has taken the world by storm. Decentralized databases beyond the authority of central institutions, based on mathematically backed gossip discovery and peer-to-peer (p2p) consensus algorithms have revolutionized supply chains, storage, identity verification, etc, and have led to the development of trustless Decentralized Apps (DApps) and even entire Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). With this huge radius of impact, it should not come as a surprise that even the education sector has not and should not remain untouched. This proposal is one such attempt to extend the power of NFTs on blockchains to the Indian Education System to power reward-based and personalized learning on a national scale.
The proposed idea leverages Web 2.0 - 3.0, CLI, REST API Development, System Design, and Data Storage technologies to enable the development of an accreditation/badge-based rewards system. The badges/certificates/rewards, in this case, represent NFTs that are mined on a secure, private blockchain network made up of a collection of independent institutional nodes running on the Golang implementation (one of the first 3 implementations) of the Ethereum protocol derived from a common genesis block. The Puppeth CLI (Command Line Interface) is used to facilitate the creation and configuring of genesis blocks, boot nodes, and various other aspects of the custom-built private blockchain. Proposed implementation details and Scalable High-Level system Designs (HLDs) have been discussed in the proposal.
The real-world implementation of the above-mentioned system includes a passive central authority that acts as a boot node and facilitates the discovery of peer nodes when a new node is introduced. Every node in this private blockchain corresponds to an Independent Ethereum Node run and maintained by an institution. The consensus algorithm used is PoA or Proof Of Authority. The modular nature of the proposed system allows it to seamlessly merge and connect to other public blockchains which implement the Ethereum standards and support Smart Contracts in Solidity. This private blockchain is then used as a source of authenticity to verify the awarded badges/certificates thereby creating a distributed blockchain-based competency ledger available to all stakeholders at all times.
Keywords: Blockchain, Scalable, Competency Ledger, Ethereum Protocol, PoA
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Thanking Note
A heartfelt thank you to all the mentors involved and to the entire community for allowing me to work on such an innovative project. I will strive to give my 100% towards contributing value to this community. Thank you for entertaining all my doubts during the entirety of drafting this proposal and thank you in advance for the mentorship and guidance that all of you bring along to help us learn and polish our skills. Looking forward to the wonderful journey ahead and am excited to learn new things. Till then, let's keep coding!