A zero-knowledge identity and credential platform for education and work.

Education & Workforce

Challenges: Educational institutions and employers need to verify qualifications, enrollment, licences, and work eligibility, often across multiple systems and jurisdictions. Today that usually means transcripts, diploma scans, background checks, and manual database lookups, which are slow, error prone, vulnerable to fraud, and risky from a privacy and data retention perspective.

Zakapi for Education and Workforce: Zakapi provides a secure way to issue and verify education credentials, professional licences, and work credentials using verifiable credentials combined with non interactive zero knowledge proofs over the underlying student and HR databases. Verifiers get mathematically checked answers to their questions while the raw records never leave the systems that own them.

Digital diplomas and certificates:

Universities and training providers issue degrees, diplomas, and skills certificates as verifiable credentials directly into a graduate’s Zakapi wallet. When an employer needs to verify a credential, the graduate shares a proof such as "Degree X from University Y was awarded and is valid". Behind that proof, Zakapi runs SQL style checks over the university’s committed student database and produces a non interactive zero knowledge proof that the result is correct for the latest authenticated data. The verifier sees a cryptographically signed confirmation bound to the institution, not grade transcripts or internal records, eliminating fake diplomas and repeated registrar calls.

Enrollment and status verification:

Students can prove their current status for discounts, visas, internships, or benefits with a single credential. For example, "currently enrolled full time at University Z" or "expected graduation year is 2027" can be turned into a selective disclosure proof that reveals only what the relying party needs. The university keeps its enrollment tables private, while SQL aware circuits enforce that the answer comes from the right database snapshot and the query was executed faithfully.

Professional licences and regulatory status:

Licensing bodies such as medical boards, bar associations, and engineering councils issue licence credentials into practitioners’ wallets. A hospital or telehealth platform requests a proof like "this doctor’s licence is active and not suspended today". Zakapi evaluates that policy against the regulator’s licence registry and returns a non interactive proof that the join and filter over the registry database are correct, without leaking other sanctions or historical data that are not needed for the check.

Work eligibility and right to work:

Employers can satisfy right to work and immigration checks using proofs instead of document copies. A candidate presents a credential derived from a trusted authority that proves "authorised to work in country X until date Y". Zakapi links that statement to a committed government or HR dataset, so HR teams get a yes or no result with a verifiable proof, rather than storing passports, visas, or social security numbers.

Employee credentials and single sign on:

Organisations issue internal employee ID, role, and clearance credentials using Zakapi. Staff authenticate to internal systems or partner portals with proofs like "current employee of Company A" or "has role Clinical Research Coordinator". Role checks can be expressed as SQL style policies over HR databases, and Zakapi produces non interactive proofs that those policies hold for the current records. Partner systems never see full directory exports, and phishing prone passwords are replaced with wallet based, cryptographically strong authentication.

Lifelong learning and skills passport:

As individuals accumulate micro credentials, online course completions, and badges, Zakapi provides a unified wallet and proof layer. A candidate can prove "completed an accredited cybersecurity course" or "holds a valid safety training certificate" without revealing unrelated qualifications. Institutions can publish aggregate statistics or audit reports using proofs over their learning databases, for example "at least N students completed module M", without exposing individual level data.

Fraud prevention and automated vetting:

Credential fraud and embellished CVs create risk and manual work. With Zakapi, only institutions that own the relevant databases can issue credentials, and every verification is backed by a non interactive proof tied to a cryptographic commitment of those databases. Employers and agencies verify claims in seconds, and any attempt to invent a degree or licence simply fails because there is no underlying record that satisfies the encoded SQL policy.

Privacy and fairness for candidates:

When applying for jobs or further study, candidates can first prove objective facts like "has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science" or "has at least five years of relevant experience" using zero knowledge proofs, before sharing full identity or full CV details. Recruiters get policy compliant, machine verifiable answers that can be audited later, not large piles of sensitive documents. Candidates retain control of their data and minimise exposure when they are not selected.

Value proposition for education and work ecosystems:

Issue tamper proof digital credentials that alumni, students, and staff can use anywhere, while your internal student information or HR systems remain private and under your control. Reduce the administrative burden of responding to verification requests, cut the time and cost of background checks, and increase confidence in authenticity through non interactive, reusable proofs. Learners and workers decide who sees their qualifications, and verifiers get only the precise answers they need, backed by SQL aware, PoneglyphDB inspired proof technology.