Case Study · Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology Surat

Institute of National Importance

IIIT Surat is one of India’s Institutes of National Importance, offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in computing and technology. Like most universities, it faced a familiar problem: issuing and verifying certificates and degrees was a slow, manual process that left the door open to forged documents. That’s where our company, Gradify Labs, came in.

CertificatesDegrees & Badges

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Challenges Faced by IIIT Surat

As an Institute of National Importance with a growing student body, IIIT Surat needed to issue certificates, degrees, and badges reliably and at scale. Verifying a certificate meant emailing or calling the registrar’s office and waiting days for a reply. Paper and PDF documents had no way to prove they hadn’t been altered, leaving the institute exposed to forged certificates carrying its name. The institute wanted a solution that could issue credentials securely and let anyone verify them instantly.

Solution Provided by Gradify Labs

Gradify Labs is a blockchain-based credential platform that issues and verifies academic documents as tamper-proof, W3C Verifiable Credentials. Our platform anchors every credential on-chain, which makes it mathematically impossible to alter without detection.

We worked with IIIT Surat to migrate its certificate and degree issuance onto our platform, anchoring over student credentials to date. Each certificate carries a QR code that resolves to a live verification page, so students, employers, and institutions can confirm authenticity in seconds no login and no call to the registrar required.

Benefits of IIIT Surat’s Blockchain-Based Credential Platform

Our platform provided several benefits to IIIT Surat, including:

• Speed: Certificates that once took days to verify are now confirmed in under 3 seconds.

• Security: On-chain anchoring makes issued credentials tamper-proof, preventing forged certificates.

• Scale: Over credentials issued and anchored, with the pipeline built for convocation-scale batches.

• Lower administrative load: Public, self-serve verification means the registrar's office fields far fewer manual requests.

Conclusion

Gradify Labs helped IIIT Surat move certificate and degree issuance onto a blockchain-based platform, anchoring over credentials and making verification instant, secure, and free for anyone to use.

We’ve helped institutions and government bodies across India achieve the same trust and credibility by issuing verifiable documents on the blockchain.