With the natural evolution of the web, the need for decentralization has rendered the current centralized education system out of date. The student does not "own" their credentials, as the only way their accomplishments are directly linked to their person and considered valuable is by verification through a stamp of an expensive, prestigious institution. However, going to a university is no longer the only way to acquire an education; open-source learning material is widely available and accessible through the internet. However, our society does not deem these methods of education as verifiable if they do not include a degree or certificate. Additionally, a valid certificate for the vast majority of open-source courses costs a few hundred dollars to obtain. The centralized nature of education inadvertently places students in underprivileged communities at a disadvantage in comparison to students in economically advantaged communities, thus a decentralized approach to education would eliminate the vast majority of such discrepancies. In the present paper, we integrate Decentralized Identity (DID) with Web 3.0 to upload credentials linked directly to the user. Each credential is appended to an Ethereum blockchain that, by design, cannot be altered once uploaded. We include DID document based access controls to display the candidate's upload and verification history. Finally, we utilize TLS protocols to provide a secure connection to the internet for ensuring non-fungibility of credentials and authentication of users.

翻译：随着 Web 的自然演进，去中心化的需求已使当前中心化的教育体系显得落伍。学生并不"拥有"其学历凭证，因为其成就与个人直接关联并被认可为有价值的唯一途径，是通过昂贵且享有盛誉的机构加盖认证印章予以核验。然而，大学教育已不再是获取知识的唯一途径；开源学习材料广泛存在，并可经由互联网便捷获取。然而，若缺乏学位或证书，我们的社会并不视这些教育方法为可验证的。此外，绝大多数开源课程的有效证书仍需花费数百美元才能获得。教育体系的中心化特质，无意中使贫困社区的学生相较于经济优渥社区的学生处于劣势，因此去中心化的教育路径将能消除此类差异中的绝大部分。在本文中，我们将去中心化身份（DID）与 Web 3.0 相结合，以上传直接与用户关联的凭证。每份凭证均被追加至以太坊区块链，该区块链在设计上确保一旦上传便不可篡改。我们引入了基于 DID 文档的访问控制机制，以展示候选人的上传与核验历史。最后，我们利用 TLS 协议为互联网连接提供安全保障，以确保凭证的不可替代性与用户身份的真实性。