Decentralized Storage Of Educational Assets Using NFTs And Blockchain Technology

Abstract

In today's world, education is an integral part of the societal life. Where the students' records are vulnerable to mutability, hacking and tampering due to the centralized storage of the educational assets. Addressing these problems, this paper aims to solve them by the application of a decentralized education model using the Blockchain Technology. The student's educational assets are cryptographically hashed and represented using the Non-Fungible Tokens(NFTs) to uniquely identify each educational asset, which are stored on the Ethereum Blockchain, Due to the limitations of cost and data storage on the blockchain, Interplanetary File System (IPFS) is implemented, where the original data is stored and the unique Id returned by the IPFS i.e., Content Identifier(CID) is used by the users to access the Educational Asset.