Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched blockchain-based digital degrees at the 54th convocation ceremony of IIT Kanpur.
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Students were issued digital degrees through an in-house blockchain-driven technology developed at the Institute under the National Blockchain Project.
This move comes at a time when India is still awaiting clarity on usage of blockchain in the crypto community as the bill addressing cryptocurrency failed to make a debut in the winter session of parliament.