Kenya Verifies Academic Credentials with Blockchain-Based Platform

Kenya has launched a blockchain-based system for verifying academic credentials to combat certificate fraud and make credentials easier to verify. The Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) partnered with Avalanche to create the platform, which stores over 30 million records on the Avalanche network.

The system allows employers, universities, and other institutions to verify academic credentials on-chain, making it more difficult for records to be tampered with. This move aims to address the thousands of forged academic certificates reported in Kenya each year.

While the verification platform is now live, neither KNEC nor Avalanche disclosed how widely it has been adopted by students, employers, or educational institutions. For Avalanche, this rollout marks one of the blockchain's largest public-sector deployments, extending its use beyond decentralized finance and digital assets into government record verification.