Integration of QR Code with the Transfer Certificate: A Novel Application of Blockchain Technology

Abstract

The TrCert – a transfer certificate generation application that is used to generate, share, and store the transfer certificate based on blockchain technology is designed and developed. It is useful to provide extra layer of verification and authenticity to the certificates. It also offers efficiency and security. It is implemented by adding smart contracts of Ethereum with peer-to-peer content delivery network IPFS. In the current paper, we are adding a Quick Response (QR) code to the TrCert application. The QR code is added to the generated transfer certificate to provide better accessibility. This paper gives a brief discussion of the TrCert application and a rigorous overview of QR code concepts like types of QR codes, advantages of adding them to the academic certificate, and challenges of QR code.