MIT Awards Degrees Via Blockchain

December 15, 2017

One of the first use cases that deployed blockchain in higher education unsurprisingly came out of MIT and their partnership with BlockCert and Learning Machine. After several years of innovating and most certainly a lot of hard work, the trio developed a distributed ledger solution that was open and recorded the transactions of awarding degrees on a blockchain. Led by the brilliant Chris Jager, the Learning Machine CEO and partners designed and implemented software on the Bitcoin blockchain platform that puts security first, and only then other…