Tecnologia Blockchain: Uma proposta de implementação na Universidade Federal do Tocantins

Abstract

The purpose of the present work is to implement a private blockchain infrastructure for data storage, specifically the certificates of completion or participation issued by the Federal University of Tocantins, Campus Palmas-TO, Brazil, with a view to avoiding their falsification by means of validation using hashing. Some institutions, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Holberton School in San Francisco, use Bitcoin's public blockchain to maintain and validate their certificates, but for fees. The Blockchain implementation adopted for this project was Multichain, a solution that, because it is open source, reduces deployment costs, facilitates easy installation and maintenance of its infrastructure, and waives any fees or amounts for information storage. makes it appropriate to the public character of the Federal University of Tocantins. Because of its security features and transparency in data storage, Blockchain has been used in a number of technologies, such as the Bitcoin cryptomoeda, smart contracts, shared economy, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, Internet of Things (IoT), management of identity, among others, and also in Education, the focus of this work.