Students can now access their degrees certified on the blockchain through the SmartPortfolio solution. This allows them to manage the authenticity of their degrees and easily share their data with third parties, guaranteeing their inviolability and authenticity indefinitely, as they are registered on the blockchain. This also benefits them from the innovations of Web3:

• It facilitates the promotion of degrees by enabling quick and easy sharing with third parties.
• The degree holder retains sovereign control over their data and decides where, how, and when to display and use it.
• The application and supporting blockchain technology guarantee its authenticity and inviolability, preventing any type of fraud.

Key advantages: security and interoperability between blockchain networks

Certification on the ISBE network enhances the security provided by Polygon and Ethereum blockchain platforms with that offered by ISBE network. It also highlights and emphasizes the integration and interoperability between blockchain networks, whose importance will only grow in the future.

ISBE is the first infrastructure formed by public administrations and companies that ensures regulatory compliance and legality for all processes. It connects Spain with European digitalization standards, offering secure and transparent services. It integrates European and national regulatory frameworks, considering GDPR and eIDAS2, as well as MiCA, DORA, LMVSI, ENS, and NIS2, ensuring adaptation to legal and technological changes through alignment with the corresponding regulations.

SmartPortfolio is a pioneer in ISBE, being the first institution to register on the network and create the corresponding Decentralized ID (DID).

With SmartPortfolio, universities and user institutions are anticipating the future European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet), which European citizens will be entitled to starting December 24, 2026. Students will be able to store their degrees and other documents in the wallet, using the European Commission‘s Verifiable Credentials standard, and interact digitally with other universities and institutions in other countries, thanks to the interoperability provided by the eIDAS2 regulation.

SmartPortfolio is an innovative solution that helps university students in their job search and mobility, as well as universities in their digital transformation. It has received funding from the Community of Madrid and the NextGenerationEU funds, from which it was selected as one of the first 20 use cases of the new ISBE network, promoted by Alastria.

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This marketplace offers participating providers, such as SmartDegrees, greater visibility to customers within a trusted European digital ecosystem, transparent compliance levels that facilitate customer evaluation, opportunities for cross-border collaboration, and access to new customers. It positions them within a market focused on European sovereignty, trust, and interoperability.

For their part, marketplace customers benefit from a fast and simple acquisition process, a single aggregated catalog of pre-validated services, and reduced time spent searching for, comparing, and evaluating services, among other benefits.

DOME, a trusted European platform for cloud, edge, and AI services

The DOME Marketplace is unique for its innovative use of verifiable credentials and eIDAS signatures to provide the necessary level of trust and legal certainty, and its use of blockchain for catalog deployment. Trust and transparency are fundamental to its approach: Each listed service is associated with a compliance level to facilitate customer assessment. Services must meet criteria for data protection, cybersecurity, portability and interoperability, and sustainability. This helps customers identify solutions aligned with European public procurement requirements and expectations.

It has been driven by a consortium of more than 40 organizations from 14 European countries, including Alastria, of which SmartDegrees is a partner. Alastria has collaborated on building the marketplace ecosystem, the technical infrastructure, and defining the governance and business models.

DOME Marketplace is open to providers registered in an EU or EEA member state that offer proprietary and managed cloud, edge, AI, or digital services to enterprise customers, public bodies, or other professional organizations. It already offers more than 130 services from 29 providers across 10 different sectors.

As a result, European technology providers can develop new digital services and offer cutting-edge AI solutions to increase and optimize productivity in both the public and private sectors.

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The blockchain industry in Spain continues to move towards consolidation, with 184 active companies generating more than 1,300 direct jobs and exceeding €533 million in aggregate revenue. The ecosystem is maturing towards real-world use cases with more robust business models, although it remains relatively small within the overall entrepreneurial landscape.

Key findings

• 117 startups dominate in number, of which 58 SMEs generate the highest revenue (€483 million).
• Madrid, with 55 companies, and Catalonia, with 41, lead the ecosystem. Valencia, Malaga, and Bilbao are emerging as secondary hubs.
• High resilience: Only 22 companies have closed compared to 184 created since 2011, with a closure rate lower than the startup average.
• Investment is still modest: 60 deals and €80 million accumulated since 2016, with notable rounds for Bit2Me and Securitize.
• Only 12% of founders are women.

In the current consolidation phase, blockchain technology is expected to become increasingly “invisible” in processes and services, acting as a lever for efficiency and digital trust in the digital transformation of the economic sectors.

Additional Alastria partners who also participated in the session and are part of the ecosystem include: Tritemius, SYBOL, The Muxic Exchange, Token City, Ways Journeys, ONYZE, Legal Node, Unknown Gravity, Dezen, and Usyncro.

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What is self-sovereign digital identity?

SSI allows individuals to own, manage, and share their own data and credentials without relying on intermediaries. This includes academic degrees, certifications, work experience, and acquired skills, among other documents.

Unlike traditional models, where information is fragmented across multiple platforms, SSI offers a unified, secure, and verifiable approach, thanks to the decentralized technology behind it—blockchain—and the standards and regulations on which it rests (the Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services Regulation (eIDAS2) to ensure interoperability, and Verifiable Credentials for documents).

The current challenge in employability

Currently, both candidates and companies face multiple obstacles:

• Resumes that are difficult to verify,
• slow selection processes,
• a lack of trust in digital credentials, and
• difficulty demonstrating real skills.

This creates inefficiencies in the labor market and limits opportunities, especially in international or digital environments.

SSI: A New Way to Demonstrate Professional Value

With self-sovereign identity, professionals can:

• share verifiable credentials instantly,
• objectively demonstrate skills,
• build a portable and interoperable digital reputation, and
• control who accesses their information.

For companies, this represents a significant improvement in the speed and reliability of their recruitment processes (30% of academic profiles on LinkedIn contain some inaccuracy, according to several studies).

The Opportunity of the European Digital Identity Wallet

The arrival of the European Digital Identity Wallet marks a turning point in Europe. This initiative will allow citizens and professionals to securely and consistently store and share official digital credentials within this wallet.

This opens the door to a more integrated European labor market, greater interoperability between educational institutions and companies, and new talent verification models.

Organizations that adapt quickly to this new paradigm will have a clear competitive advantage. The decision isn’t whether to do it or not, but when, since European citizens have the right to do so from December 24, 2026, and large institutions are obligated to accept it 12 months later.

Education, credentials, and employability: A new ecosystem

The combination of SSI, blockchain, and verifiable credentials is transforming the relationship between education and employment:

• Universities can issue verifiable digital degrees.
• Professionals accumulate micro-credentials throughout their careers.
• Companies access reliable and up-to-date information.

We are moving from a model based on static degrees to one focused on dynamic and verifiable skills.

Self-sovereign digital identity is not a future trend, but an emerging reality that will redefine employability in the coming years.

Adopting SSI-based solutions not only improves efficiency but also allows individuals and organizations to build relationships based on trust, transparency, and data control.

In this new scenario, those who lead the digital transformation of credentials will play a key role in the future of work.

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The event brought together more than 50 people from the 20 companies participating in the development and implementation of the platform, as well as from the first 12 SMEs to use it, deploying their use case activities. The session allowed participants to:

• Learn more about ISBE: its vision, objectives, and approach.
• Explore technical aspects to accelerate deployment.
• Connect with key industry professionals, institutional representatives, and those involved in other use cases.

The event marked a milestone and a turning point in the development and launch of the platform, which will be operational by the end of the year.

The use cases

Twelve of the first twenty use cases to be implemented at IBSE, funded by the Community of Madrid, have been presented. They cover diverse areas such as finance, agri-food, logistics, advertising, education, and data analytics:

• Instant digital payments; Stock Exchange 3.0 in the futures stock market; bond issuance in the debt market.
• Traceability in the livestock sector.
• Mitigation of spam and unwanted phone calls; fraud prevention in digital advertising.
• Digital product passport; academic credentials.
• Tax-free processes between customs.

All use cases demonstrate how blockchain solves specific problems in key sectors, with solutions aligned with European regulations, for real-world adoption.

The University Smart Portfolio use case that was presented issues verifiable credentials that certify students’ academic evidences in a digital portfolio. This facilitates interoperability with other institutions thanks to its alignment with the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW) standard and the eIDAS2 regulation. Its objective is to enhance the value of students in the job market and in their mobility by sharing their credentials quickly and securely, without intermediaries, while also supporting the university in its digital transformation.

Support from the Community of Madrid

The underlying grant program was launched by the Digitalization Department of the Community of Madrid in early 2025 with the aim of promoting the use of emerging technologies to accelerate the digital transformation of the region’s business ecosystem. It represents a total investment of €2 million and is part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU. Alastria is a key player driving, leading, and executing the development of the initiative through its agreement with the regional government.

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Students receive their digitally diploma already certified on blockchain immediately upon completion of their studies, thanks to an innovative solution implemented by the university. This solution, connected to the SmartPortfolio platform, offers high scalability, seamless integration, and complete automation.

The solution allows students to manage the authenticity of their diplomas and share easily their data with third parties, guaranteeing the inviolability and authenticity of their qualifications, as they are registered on blockchain, benefiting from the innovation of Web3.

Advantages of blockchain certification: Speed, convenience, and security

• It facilitates the recognition of the degree’s value, as it allows for quick and easy sharing with third parties.
• The users have sovereign control over their data and decide where, how, and when to display and use it.
• The application and the underlying blockchain technology guarantee its authenticity and inviolability, preventing any type of fraud.

With this solution, UTAMED anticipates the future European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet), to which European citizens will be entitled from 2026. UTAMED students will be able to incorporate these diplomas into the wallet, using the European Commission‘s Verifiable Credential standard, and interact digitally with other universities and institutions in other countries, thanks to the interoperability provided by eIDAS2 regulation.

SmartPortfolio is an innovative solution that helps university students in their job search and mobility, as well as universities in their digital transformation. It has received funding from the Community of Madrid and the NextGenerationEU funds, and was selected as one of the first 20 use cases of the new Spanish Blockchain Services Infrastructure (ISBE), promoted by Alastria. Currently, certifies on Polygon, which in turn certifies on Ethereum, and will offer ISBE certification as soon as it becomes available.

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University Smart Portfolio (USP) adapts SmartDegrees’ blockchain-based digital identity app to the European Commission‘s European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW) standard, promotes the use of Verifiable Credentials in universities, fosters interoperability between European institutions, and anticipates the regulations in force starting in 2027, under which every European citizen will have the right to a digital identity.

The project provides university students with a digital portfolio in which they can record and accredit their academic achievements, with credentials that can be shared securely and interoperably with platforms such as LinkedIn and others, leveraging blockchain technology and the eIDAS2 regulation.

Participation of UDIT and support from other entities

The University of Design, Innovation and Technology (UDIT) will test the USP in its internal systems, validating its usability. The European Campus Card Association (ECCA) will provide an international testing framework, Hassan II University of Morocco will expand the project’s scope beyond national and European territory, and the Sicomoro Foundation will allow cross-certification testing between Spanish entities from other sectors, strengthening interoperability at the national level.

This award from the Community of Madrid represents a key recognition of the innovation by the presented use case and consolidates the support obtained in 2019 from the European Commission, with its Seal of Excellence of Horizon 2020, to promote blockchain initiatives.

The grant is part of the regional government of Madrid’s line of aid aimed at SMEs and startups to encourage the use of blockchain technology, within the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, for digitalization in key economic sectors, financed by the European Union (NextGenerationEU), and the agreement signed with Alastria, on 21-2-25 for the development, deployment and implementation of use cases for Spain’s Blockchain Services Infrastructure, which will be operational on 31-12-25, aligned with its European equivalent, European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI).

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The agreement will allow students to manage the authenticity of their documents from their smartphones, through a free application that will make it easier for them to share their data with the university and with third parties, guaranteeing the inviolability and authenticity of the document, as it is registered in blockchain, benefiting from the innovation that Web3 represents.

Advantages of document certification: agility, convenience and security

• It facilitates the promotion of the document, since it allows it to be shared quickly and comfortably with third parties.
• The student is the sovereign owner of his data and decides where, how and when to display and use it.
• The application and blockchain support technology guarantee its authenticity, its inviolability and prevent any type of fraud.

The agreement will also make it easier for each university student to have a self-managed digital identity (Self-Sovereign Identity), to which the above documents are associated, forming a UDIT Smart Portfolio, interoperable with universities and institutions in other countries, by using the Verifiable Credentials standard of the European Commission and the EUDI Wallet digital identity of its European Blockchain Services Infrastructure initiative.

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Digital Identity: Security and Control

The eIDAS2 proposal, adopted in 2021 and scheduled to come into force in 2026, extends the framework of the original eIDAS (2014) with the aim of providing every citizen and institution with a secure and universal means to manage their digital identity within the European Union (EU). The EUDI wallet, which will be available to all EU citizens in 2026 and must be accepted in all member states, will allow citizens to store, manage and share digital credentials in a secure and decentralised manner, without intermediaries and ensuring full control of the data by the user.

Several EU member states are currently piloting the EUDI wallet in key sectors such as education, banking and healthcare, demonstrating the potential of this technology to transform the way we interact digitally.

Verifiable Credentials and blockchain

A key aspect of eIDAS2 is the implementation of Verifiable Credentials (VCs), a standard that allows users to prove information about their identity without exposing unnecessary sensitive data. They can include everything from academic degrees to certificates of residence or business licenses, allowing for agile and decentralized verification:

• Academic credentials and professional certifications
• National identity card or digital passport
• Driving license
• Banking and financial data

The use of blockchain in this ecosystem reinforces the immutability and security of credentials, guaranteeing the authenticity of information without the need for centralized intermediaries. In addition, it reduces the risk of fraud and facilitates interoperability between different public and private services.

Benefits for citizens and institutions

For institutions and companies, eIDAS2 and VCs mean more efficient authentication processes, reduced fraud and simplified regulatory compliance. For citizens, the adoption of the EUDI Wallet will ensure greater control over their digital identity and a more fluid experience in interacting with both public and private services.

The transition to eIDAS2 is a unique opportunity for institutions and companies to digitally transform their businesses to innovate in secure and trustworthy digital services. The adoption of blockchain and verifiable credentials not only meets the new regulatory requirements, but also lays the foundation for a safer and more efficient digital ecosystem in Europe and, by its adoption, in other countries.

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The agreement will allow students to manage the authenticity of their diplomas from their smartphones, through a free application that will make it easier for them to share the degree data with employment platforms, recruiters and third parties, guaranteeing the inviolability and authenticity of the degree, as it is registered on the blockchain, benefiting from the innovation that Web3 represents.

Advantages of certifying degrees: agility, convenience and security

• It facilitates the enhancement of the diploma, as it allows it to be shared quickly and easily with third parties.
• The holder is the sovereign owner of his data and decides where, how and when to display and use it.
• The application and blockchain support technology guarantee their authenticity, their inviolability and prevent any type of fraud.

The agreement will also make it possible to extend the certification of degrees on blockchain to other educational institutions in Morocco and to enhance their interoperability with universities in other countries, by using the Verifiable Credentials standard of the European Commission and the EUDI Wallet digital identity of its European Blockchain Services Infrastructure initiative.

With this certification, CESA joins the community of universities and institutions in Morocco, whose degrees are recorded, in accordance with this standard, on a mature and scalable blockchain network, by using smart contracts and the Quorum platform, based on Ethereum.

This certification makes it easier for students to gain value in the labor market and prevents any falsification, thanks to blockchain technology.

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