Kenya's National Examinations Council (KNEC) is providing job applicants and employers the ability to verify certificates in seconds by recording the country's academic data on the Avalanche ($AVAX) C-Chain system.
Ava Labs announced the product launch in a blog post on August 3, and Avalanche confirmed it on the same day via platform X.
What is the New Data Recording System in Kenya?
For years, verifying a Kenyan certificate meant submitting a request through official portals or sending physical documents back and forth. A single verification could take up to a month, and bulk verification for large recruitment agencies could take up to six months.
However, the National Examinations Council of Kenya (KNEC) has recently begun migrating the country's academic records to the Avalanche blockchain, enabling verification within seconds.
Reportedly, over 15 million records are now stored on the Avalanche ($AVAX) C-Chain, with the system expected to grow to approximately 35 million records.
KNEC CEO Dr. David Njengere stated that students can now "securely access, download, and verify their KCSE certificates online." Certificates for the 2025 KCSE exams, taken by nearly 1 million students, are now available exclusively through this digital system.
The project encompasses documents for 8th-grade (KCPE), 12th-grade (KCSE), diploma, and teacher certification. The work is being carried out on the LegitDoc platform by a local Kenyan technology company.
In addition to increasing verification speed, the old paper system was also prone to fraud. Counterfeit certificates were a problem, and even QR codes on these diplomas led to regular databases that could be copied using fake websites.
However, each record in the new blockchain system is a secure, immutable entry, and anyone with access to the official portal can quickly verify the true status of a certificate.
Why is Kenya Using Avalanche?
The LegitDoc platform and the Avalanche blockchain were also used in India's Dantewada district to host over 700,000 land records on the blockchain. This project reduced verification time from several weeks to less than a day.
Avalanche has been used for other major projects as well, including the California Department of Motor Vehicles' work with 42 million vehicle documents and the Bergen County, New Jersey, project for processing real estate documents.
Cryptopolitan reported that Japanese company Progmat used the Avalanche Layer 1 for a security tokenization project worth over $3 billion, and the Aave lending protocol deployed its new system on Avalanche.
The network's ability to handle large transaction volumes at low cost makes it attractive for large-scale government projects. Records dating back to 1989 are now included in the new system.
However, even despite these successes, the price of $AVAX has declined. On August 3, 2026, $AVAX was trading at approximately $6.52, down about 70% from a year ago.
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