A certificate is deployed on the Solana blockchain as an open, publicly verifiable program. This non fungible certificate acts as an automated process of evaluation and verification of the certificate.

Advantages:
- The certificates are trustlessly verifiable
- The certificates are immutable
- With a decentralized network your certificates are available with 100% up-time
- The issuance of certificates can be fully automated by using a smart contract

CA certificate is deployed on the Solana blockchain as an open, publicly verifiable program. This non fungible certificate acts as an automated process for evaluation and verification of the certificate.

As you continue your learning journey, your progress will be recorded on your non fungible certificate's storage on the Solana blockchain

Advantages:
- The certificates are immutable.
- With a decentralized network your certificates are available with 100% up-time.

Student Portal is actually a program on Solana that owns an account where it can store data. This data is stored on chain along side the contract. Since its on the blockchain it is immutable. This data will be updated whenever a user adds a new credential or makes progress towards their goal.

Certificate verification is as easy as entering a certificate ID and a digital signature to validate and prove ownership of the certification.

Advantages:
- The certificates are trustlessly verifiable.
- You would not need to contact the issuer directly as the data is already on the blockchain.

During the issuance, the student gets a program_id. This program_id can be used to scan the blockchain by Resume Explorer and look into its data. Fields such as isCertified can only be set by the decentralized program (which is also public), These data can be used to verify the person owns the degree.