Why I Started PaxBlockchain: My Journey Toward Building a secured identity infrastructure for the Educational Sector.
For me, PaxBlockchain wasn’t just an idea — it was a response to a problem I could no longer ignore. I’ve always believed that education is the foundation of opportunity. But growing up in Africa (Nigeria), I saw first-hand how much potential gets lost because of a broken system, i.e Forged certificates and how hard it is to verify educational credentials, I realized something — we don’t just have an education problem; we need a new identity infrastructure . The Moment It Hit Me At first, I thought blockchain was just about crypto — coins, trading, charts, rugpulls and maybe some scams 😂. But when I looked deeper, I saw something different: transparency , immutability , and easy verification written into code. That’s when it clicked and i understood BLOCKCHAIN (THE DECENTRALIZED LEDGER) . So i thought, What if we could use this technology not just for finance, but to fix one of world’s biggest integrity gaps — education ? I started sketching the idea of what would...