Skill Trust

🧠 About the Project — SkillTrust

💡 Inspiration

The idea for SkillTrust came from a simple but persistent problem: skills are hard to trust online. Resumes can be exaggerated, certificates can be forged, and platforms often rely on centralized verification that doesn’t scale globally. We wanted a system where skills could be verified once and trusted everywhere, without relying on passwords, databases, or intermediaries.

Blockchain and verifiable credentials offered a clean answer: cryptographic truth instead of claims.

🏗️ How We Built It

SkillTrust is a wallet-first, passwordless skill verification platform.

• Smart Contract (Solidity)
  A minimal Solidity contract stores only the hash of a credential on-chain, ensuring immutability and privacy.

• Backend (Node.js + Express)
  The backend verifies wallet signatures, ensures issuer-only credential issuance, uploads credential data to IPFS via Pinata, and commits the credential hash on-chain.

• Frontend (Next.js + React)
  A clean Pages Router–based frontend allows:

  • Skill holders to request credentials
  • Issuers to issue credentials using wallet signatures
  • Public users to verify credentials instantly

• Storage & Hashing
  Credential data is stored off-chain on IPFS.
  Integrity is guaranteed using:

Built With

• express.js
• javascript
• next.js
• node.js
• react
• solidity