Educhain
Educhain provides a digital credential platform that converts existing registrar records into tamper-evident digital credentials, enabling batch issuance, secure student wallets, and verification in under a minute. The platform supports Open Badges 3.0, digital attestation by ministries, and integrates with SIS systems like Ellucian and Blackboard, with over 500,000 credentials issued across 100+ institutions in the Gulf region.
- Education Technology
- Software Only
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Traditional paper-based credential issuance and verification processes are slow, costly, and inefficient. Students face delays obtaining official documents, employers must contact institutions for verification, and institutions bear significant printing and courier expenses.
Solution
Educhain provides a digital credential platform that converts existing registrar records into tamper-evident digital credentials. The platform enables batch issuance of credentials from SIS systems or spreadsheets, delivers them to students' secure digital wallets, and allows instant verification through a public portal. Credentials support digital attestation by ministries, eliminating the need for in-person ministry visits and courier services. The end-to-end flow moves from the registrar's desk to the employer's screen with no paper in between, reducing verification time from weeks to under a minute.
Target Audience
Primary customers are universities, schools, and ministries of education, particularly across the Gulf region, that need to issue, attest, and verify academic credentials at scale.
Features
- Batch credential issuance from XLS files, SIS systems, or API connections with approval workflows
- Secure student wallet ("Academic Passport") for receiving, storing, and sharing credentials via links, QR codes, PDFs, and social profiles
- Public verification portal that checks issuer identity, document fingerprint, and credential status in seconds
- Support for Open Badges 3.0 standard for microcredentials and verifiable badges
- Digital attestation capability, replacing in-person ministry visits and courier deliveries
- RTL language support and localization for Arabic and English interfaces
- Flexible deployment options including cloud or on-premise hosting to comply with institutional data policies
- Credential lifecycle management including expiry dates, revocation, and audit trail preservation
- Secure real-time data reporting to government education statistics centers with compliance reports
- Integration with institutional LMS and SIS systems such as Ellucian and Blackboard