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Who it is for

A coding bootcamp in Accra has graduates whose PDFs get forged. With Credential Kiosk they issue onchain certificates employers verify in one click.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$199

$50 deposit to reserve

Issuer dashboard, CSV bulk issue, recipient claim, public verifier.

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: certificate template

Customfrom $1,500

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

Why own your own

A cheaper owned deploy of a well-served category, differentiated on price and branding only.

Closest things out there

Accredible, Blockcerts, Disco and CertifyMe already let schools and bootcamps issue verifiable certificates with verifier pages.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Gives learners proof of what they earned.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

grant · Polygon · rolling

Polygon Community Grants

seasonal; current season unknown

Official page ↗

Existing projects OK.

Their rule on existing code: Existing projects OK

grant · Solana Foundation · rolling

Solana Foundation Grants

rolling

Official page ↗

Existing projects OK.

Their rule on existing code: Existing projects OK

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Credential Kiosk app: a school designs a certificate, issues a whole cohort onchain with one or two signers, graduates claim it, and employers verify it in one tap, with a paywall and kiosk agent built in.

Base price · $199

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: PDFs are easy to edit, chain the proof, checked in one tap.

Issue night status and next actionHome

Design, issue, claimed and checked progress with one clear next step, plus the issue night calendar.

Certificate designerIssue

Scroll, plain ticket and Kente band templates, expiry, and live preview. Kente and custom templates are gated behind Kiosk Pro.

CSV bulk issue with row matchingIssue

Flags duplicate and blank emails, then matches by student ID plus phone or holds rows for manual review.

Two signer batch issuingIssue

One or two issuer keys sign the whole cohort in one transaction, with an onchain receipt.

Public verifierVerify

Scan a QR: real, edited (with the true record shown) or revoked (with the reason).

Revocation with a reasonVerify

Pick a written reason; the graduate is told first and verifiers see it.

Claim tracking and nudgesGraduates

Who claimed and who has not, with email nudges. WhatsApp claims and nudges are gated behind Kiosk Pro.

Monthly checks noteGraduates

Verifier taps, calls avoided, and what the verifier found. Gated behind Kiosk Pro.

Graduate share cardGraduates

A shareable ticket after claiming: my certificate checks itself now.

Plans and issuer settingsKiosk

Pricing from the owner paywall via USDC checkout, grade visibility, claim channel, onchain and off chain summary.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

MRR, verify fees, payouts, incoming USDC, payment methods, and live editing of tiers, prices, free limit and gates.

Kiosk rulesRules

Default network, verify fee, required two signers, notice before revoking, issuer domain badge, ID plus phone matching, gas sponsoring.

Kiosk agent logAgent

CSV cleaning, claim channel switches and lookalike issuer warnings, including failures. It never signs.

Priced roadmapRoadmap

v2 and v3 builds with scope, time and an add-on price, requested in one tap.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Issuer growth loops and cohortsIssuers

Guild days, issuer referrals, verify page reach and issuer retention cohorts.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Schools issue and verify free on Starter. Busy schools pay monthly for Kiosk Pro, guilds pay for a shared verifier, and recruiters pay per bulk verify check.

StarterFree1 signer, up to 50 certificates a cohort, email claims, public verifier

Kiosk Pro$40 a monthWhatsApp claims and nudges, monthly checks note, Kente and custom templates, unlimited cohort size

Guild$150 a monthEverything in Pro, shared guild verifier with partner schools, own domain, 5 issuer seats

Recruiters pay $0.50 per paid verify check (owner sets it). Gas is cents per cohort and can be sponsored by the owner.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Every verify page is branded and seen by an employer who may train people too
Issue night: a cohort claims together and posts the ticket, linking back to the kiosk
Guild days that bring partner schools into a shared verifier
School to school referral codes worth a free month for both
Graduate share card: my certificate checks itself now

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full issuer kiosk

Certificate designer and CSV bulk issue
Two signer issuing and revocation with a reason
Claim links by email and WhatsApp
Public verifier with the real record on mismatch
Paywall, issuer analytics and kiosk agent

Included

Guild network and LinkedIn

Shared guild verifier for partner schools
One tap Add to LinkedIn with a verify link
Verifier API with per check billing
Custom domains per issuer

Add-on from $500

Skills wallet and hiring board

Graduate skills wallet across many issuers
Employer hiring board that filters by verified skills
Open certificate schema for trade guilds
Offline kiosk mode for issue nights

Add-on from $1,200

For investors and grant reviewers

The pitch, ready

Any school, bootcamp or guild issues verifiable certificates in an afternoon, and employers check them in one tap.

Problem: Small schools hand out PDF certificates anyone can edit in a minute. Employers either trust a file they should not or phone the school, and honest graduates' real grades look exactly like fakes.

Solution: A branded kiosk the school owns: CSV bulk issue signed by one or two keys, only hashes and a status bit onchain, claim links by email or WhatsApp, and a public verifier that shows the true record when a file was edited.

Why now: Attestations on Base, Polygon and Solana cost fractions of a cent, email wallets remove setup, and small models can clean messy cohort files and draft claim messages.

Market: Bootcamps, trade guilds, training centres and community schools, especially in regions where per certificate SaaS pricing is out of reach. The category exists; this competes on price, ownership and local fit.

The ask: Pilot issuers: three bootcamps or guilds in one city, and grant support from Polygon Community Grants or Solana Foundation Grants.

Funding is never guaranteed. Check each program's rules.

For hackathons and demo days

Your 2 minute demo

Home: meet Efua, 38, who runs CodeYard in Accra, on graduation night.
Issue: pick the template and two signers, fix two CSV rows by student ID and phone, then sign the cohort.
Graduates: claims stall on bounced email; nudge by WhatsApp, which is gated behind Kiosk Pro.
Verify: Tobi checks a real certificate, Sena checks an edited PDF and sees the true grade.
Verify: revoke Yaw's certificate with a reason, scan again and see the reason shown.
Owner Agent: show how email matching failed and the agent adapted, while humans signed.
Owner Revenue: change the Kiosk Pro price in the paywall editor and preview the issuer Plans screen.
Owner Issuers and Roadmap: run a guild day, then request the v2 guild network.

Many hackathons require code written at the event. See the Regatta Boardfor each race's rule.

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $1,500: your own certificate schema or accreditation fields, integrations with a school LMS or student records system, extra languages, or a white label guild deployment. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $1,500

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The need

Small schools, bootcamps and trade guilds hand out PDF certificates that anyone can edit in a minute. Employers either trust a file they should not, or phone the school, and honest graduates' real grades look exactly like fakes.

What exists and what is new

This is a well served category. Accredible, Blockcerts, Disco and CertifyMe already let schools and bootcamps issue verifiable certificates with verifier pages. Research verdict: exists, low novelty. What this app offers is a cheaper owned deploy: the school runs its own branded kiosk on its own chain choice, with CSV bulk issue, two signer issuing, revocation with a reason, and claim links over WhatsApp as well as email. It competes on price, ownership and fit for small issuers, not on a new mechanic.

The data it runs on

The school's cohort CSV (student ID, name, track, grade, phone or email), the issuer's signing keys, a certificate template, and a status bit per certificate. Names, grades and PDFs stay in the school's own storage; only hashes, issuer keys and status live onchain.

1.The mission

Let any place that teaches give its learners proof of what they earned, which anyone can check in one tap.

2.Why people can't resist it

Issue night A whole cohort claims together on graduation night and posts the ticket. The school's brand travels with every share.

The real grade shows An edited PDF does not just fail: the verifier shows the true record, so employers learn what the graduate actually earned.

Monthly checks note The issuer sees who verified, from where and how often, which doubles as proof that employers value the certificate.

3.How it works for real

Issuer keys: The school signs in with Privy and holds one or two signing keys in a Safe on Base or Polygon, or a multisig on Solana. Two signers can be required for every batch.

Bulk issue: A CSV is matched to student records by ID plus phone, then each certificate is written as an EAS attestation on Base or Polygon, or a compressed record on Solana, in one batched transaction.

Claim: Graduates get a claim link by email or WhatsApp. They can claim to their own wallet or keep it under a free email login and move it later.

Verifier: A public page reads the attestation by QR or ID, hashes the uploaded file, and shows match, edited (with the real record) or revoked (with the reason).

Revocation: The issuer flips a status bit with a written reason. The graduate is notified first.

Kiosk agent: A small model (for example a Claude Haiku class model) cleans the CSV, flags duplicates and drafts claim messages. It never signs; humans sign every batch.

4.Cost per use and pricing

Onchain fees are small: an attestation on Base or Polygon is usually well under one US cent, so a 42 person cohort costs cents in gas, estimated and variable. Messaging and hosting dominate: WhatsApp business messages cost a few US cents each depending on country. CSV cleaning with a small model is under one cent per cohort. Example month for a bootcamp issuing 160 certificates a year: about $1 in gas, $5 in messages, $20 hosting.

Single cohort $49 per cohort

Up to 60 certificates, verifier page, one template.

School $39 per month

Unlimited cohorts, two signers, revocation, monthly checks note, custom domain.

Guild network From $199 per month

Many issuers under one brand, shared verifier, API for HR tools.

5.Growth loop

Every verification is a branded page seen by an employer, often another company that trains people. Graduates share their claimed certificate on LinkedIn, and each share links to the school's kiosk. Issuers invite partner schools into a shared guild verifier.

6.Risks and guardrails

Key loss or theft: One stolen key could issue fakes. Two signer mode, revocation by batch and a short issuing window reduce this.

Privacy: Grades and names must not be onchain. Only hashes are written; the school can delete off chain records on request, which leaves an unreadable hash.

Wrong issue: Certificates issued in error must be revocable with a reason, and the graduate told first.

Legal standing: A verifiable certificate is not an accreditation. The school's own legal status does not change, and the page says so.

Lookalike issuers: A fake school could copy a name. Issuer pages show verified domain and a contact, and the verifier warns on new issuers.

7.Build order

Issuer sign in and one signing key on Base
Certificate template and CSV import with ID plus phone matching
Batched attestation issue and a public verifier page
File hash check that shows the real record on mismatch
Claim links by email and WhatsApp
Revocation with reason, then two signer mode

8.Where this is going

Now
One bootcamp stops answering 'is this real?' calls and its graduates carry proof that cannot be edited.
Next
Trade guilds and apprenticeships issue skill tickets for welders, tailors and mechanics who never had a paper trail.
Later
Employers across a region check any learner's record in one tap, across many small issuers.
The world it builds
What you learned, anywhere, counts everywhere, and the person who earned it holds the proof.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Credential Kiosk

Certificate platforms charge per learner and put their brand on your graduates' proof. When you own Credential Kiosk, every certificate is issued from your wallet under your school's or guild's name, and the verifier page employers click lives on your domain. You keep the issuing record, the learner list and the revenue if you issue for others.

What’s stopping you?

“Accredible and Disco already exist. Why would anyone pick mine?”

Honestly, this category is well served, so your edge is price, branding and being local. A bootcamp in your city that cannot justify a per-certificate SaaS bill, or wants its own domain, is your customer. Do not try to beat the big players on features; beat them on being the person who answers the phone.

“I can't code.”

You do not need to. Issuing is a CSV upload in the dashboard, the template is set at purchase, and recipients claim with an email or wallet. Your work is getting schools to try it and helping their admin upload the first batch.

“Will employers actually trust an onchain certificate?”

Most employers do not care about the chain; they care that one click shows the certificate is real and who issued it. The public verifier page does that. Teach issuers to put the verify link on every certificate and CV.

“What if a school issues something wrong or fraudulent?”

The issuer is responsible for what they issue, and your terms should say so. Revocation lets an issuer withdraw a certificate, and the verifier page shows it was revoked. Only onboard issuers you can identify, and list the issuer's name clearly on every certificate.

“Is issuing certificates legal where I live?”

Issuing a record of completion is generally fine, but calling something an accredited degree or license is regulated in most countries. Keep wording to 'certificate of completion' unless the issuer holds the accreditation. If unsure, ask a local education lawyer before onboarding a formal institution.

The million-dollar ladder

Sell issuer plans to schools, bootcamps, guilds and event organizers: a monthly fee by issuing volume, plus setup fees for branded templates. Learners always verify free.

$120

$2,400

$15,000

$85,000

First issuers

3 small bootcamps or guilds

$40 per month

Local reputation

30 issuers

$80 per month

Regional default

100 issuers

$150 per month

Business at about $1M a year

425 issuers

$200 per month

Target a region or niche (African bootcamps, trade guilds, conference organizers) where big platforms are priced out.
Charge a one-time $300 branded template setup on top of the monthly plan.
Add an employer verification badge that recruiters can embed, so every verify click markets you.
Bundle with event or course tools so issuing is automatic when a course ends.

Illustrative stages, not a forecast. Results depend on you and the market; nothing here is guaranteed.