LifeWallet
Blockchain Credential Verification Platform
LifeWallet is a blockchain platform for safely storing and verifying the educational records that matter to someone's employment or further study like diplomas, certificates, and the rest. Those records can then be shared with potential employers and educational establishments to confirm the holder's experience and skills.
Platform:
Web
Industry:
FinTech
Team size:
6 people
Country:
USA
Project Duration:
6 months
The year started & completed:
2019
We built a web platform where people keep their diplomas and certificates in a blockchain vault, and the institutions that issued them confirm they are real.
Scope and Objectives
01
Credential Vault
02
Verification by Institutions
03
Two-Stage Verification
04
Sharing with Employers
Focus Areas and Deliverables
Blockchain Data Vault
The storage layer is the product: records written to the blockchain so that what an employer sees is what the institution confirmed, with no room to edit it afterwards.
Two-Stage Verification Flow
The flow that carries a record from the holder to the verifying organisation and back, in two stages, with both roles seeing the state of a record at any point.
Admin Panel
An administrative panel with data visualisation and statistics, giving a view across the records and the verifications moving through the system.
Interface Design and Handoff
The interface was designed and specified in full before development began, and the build followed that agreed design throughout.
Challenges Identified
Building on an Unproven Technology
Creating a safe data storage and verification platform on blockchain was a cumbersome task given how new the system was. With no previous experience building a secure blockchain data vault, the team had to rely on analytical work and on the development instinct its engineers had earned over years of building software.
Trust Is the Product
A credential vault is only worth using if an employer believes what it shows. The platform had to make a record verifiably genuine, not merely stored, which is what put blockchain at the centre of it.
Two Roles in One System
Individuals presenting credentials and organisations confirming them want different things from the same records, and each role needed its own view and its own permissions over the same data.
Results of the project
A blockchain vault with two roles, two-stage verification, and an admin panel.
LifeWallet is a blockchain platform with two user roles. The first is for people who want to store and verify their diplomas or certificates in a bulletproof blockchain vault, to add them later to their CVs or other documents. The second is for the companies, organisations, and educational establishments that verify those records.
The application carries two-stage data verification and an admin panel with data visualisation and statistics.
Business Value
Credentials that prove themselves, without a phone call to the registrar.
Credentials an Employer Can Trust
A record confirmed on the platform carries the institution's verification with it, so an employer is reading proof rather than a claim.
Proof That Travels with the Person
Holders keep their own verified records and attach them to a CV or an application whenever they need them, rather than requesting paperwork each time.
Verification Without the Back-and-Forth
Institutions confirm records directly in the platform, replacing the phone calls and letters that usually sit behind a background check.
Oversight Through the Admin Panel
Data visualisation and statistics give the operator a view of what is being stored and verified across the platform.
Tools & Technologies
PHP
JavaScript
Sketch
Zeplin