AcadVault: A Privacy-First Blockchain Credential Framework Achieving O(1) Batch Issuance via Merkle Tree and SSS-based Distributed Key Recovery
A national audit that revealed 10,000 fake credentials among 400,035 public employees demonstrates the severity of the global threat posed by academic credential fraud. Although blockchain-based credential systems provide a promising countermeasure, existing architectures suffer from four persistent shortcomings: (1) c...