Government · Peru
Building trusted academic credential infrastructure for Peru.
ClearContracts is working with Peruvian institutions to create a secure, interoperable system for issuing and verifying academic credentials.
The initial implementation helps universities, government institutions, graduates, and employers establish trust in academic records without slow, fragmented verification processes.
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The challenge
Academic trust currently moves slower than the people who depend on it.
Academic credentials must pass between universities, graduates, government regulators, employers, and other institutions. Each participant maintains separate systems, policies, and records.
Credential recognition can take months
Verification often requires manual institutional coordination
Graduates have limited control over portable digital records
Employers lack a consistent verification process
Institutional audit records are fragmented
Sensitive personal information must be protected throughout the process
How the initiative began
From a national webinar to a working implementation.
The initiative developed through collaboration with Peru's Secretariat of Government and Digital Transformation and public institutions exploring new models for digital trust.
An initial webinar reached approximately 250 government participants. Forty departments expressed interest, leading to 18 institutional use cases and a nine-hour workshop in Lima.
Academic credentials were selected as the first implementation, with the National University of San Marcos serving as the initial university environment.
The solution
A shared credential network — without a shared personal-data database.
An authorized university can issue a digitally verifiable academic credential directly to a graduate.
Sensitive student records remain off-chain and under institutional control. Cryptographic commitments provide independent evidence of integrity without publishing personal information.
A verifier can confirm
The university is an approved issuer
The credential was legitimately issued
The issuing key was valid at the time
The credential has not been altered
The credential has not been revoked
The verification followed the appropriate institutional policy
How it works
From institutional authorization to independent verification.
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Institutional authorization
Approved universities and public institutions are registered through a government trust registry.
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Credential issuance
The university issues a signed digital credential based on its existing academic records.
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Graduate access
The graduate receives the credential through a simple hosted wallet, with export options for users who want independent custody.
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Independent verification
Employers, government agencies, and other institutions verify the credential through a public portal or API.
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Status and audit
Institutions can revoke or update credential status while preserving a permanent, auditable record of the process.
Privacy and compliance
Designed around Peruvian data protection requirements.
Ley N° 29733 · privacy by designPersonal academic records are not published to a blockchain. Institutions retain control of operational data while the trust layer records only the evidence required to validate integrity, authorization, and credential status.
The architecture supports role-based access, permission reviews, documented administrative actions, incident reporting, secure key management, and auditable institutional changes.
Expansion path
Academic credentials are the first public trust network.
The initial university implementation creates a foundation that can expand to additional universities, regulators, and credential types.
The same infrastructure can eventually support professional licenses, certifications, permits, public benefits, procurement records, and other processes requiring trusted information exchange between institutions.
Participate
Participate in Peru's digital trust infrastructure.
We are working with public institutions, universities, employers, and technology partners interested in building an interoperable credential ecosystem.
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