DISCIPLINA

DISCIPLINA is an IT-project with an open-source blockchain protocol on its back, developed to create verified personal profiles based on academic and professional achievements. Was designed to act as a decentralized ledger, with special regard for privacy and mechanisms of data disclosure.

DCSP is the cryptocurrency which is used as the main payment instrument in applications using the DISCIPLINA. A smaller payment instrument is called Logic.

The idea to develop DISCIPLINA was proposed in late 2017 by Ilya Nikiforov during the development of the TeachMePlease marketplace. The first release of the technical document describing the architecture of the blockchain platform was launched in January 2018.

Etymology

The name DISCIPLINA was picked while creating the concept of the blockchain. It is a reference to the first language of the European educational sphere — Latin. The word ‘disciplina’ means 'learning’, ‘study’, ‘education’. The main payment instrument is called DSCP (which is an abbreviation for DISCIPLINA), while a smaller payment unit is titled Logic (from the ancient Greek ‘logike’, meaning ‘reasoning’).

History

The idea to create DISCIPLINA emerged as a development plan for TeachMePlease — a marketplace that has since 2016 offered educational institutions and private tutors the opportunity to advertise their programmes and courses, and students — the chance to search for any course they might need. Initially it was planned to transform TeachMePlease through the implementation of the blockchain protocol, but the deeper the team delved into the problematics of the fields of education and recruitment, the clearer it became that a more drastic change — an individual project — was needed.

Milestones

The idea to develop DISCIPLINA came into being in late 2017. The first release of the technical document describing the idea and the architecture of the blockchain was launched in January 2018 and then development moved to the active stage.

The next stage, development of DISCIPLINA Alpha, was completed on 31 August 2018. The alpha-version is a functionally limited but ready-to-use test network for the DISCIPLINA blockchain.

DISCIPLINA technology

The DISCIPLINA architecture was developed with special regard for privacy. Contrary to the public blockchain architectures like Bitcoin and Ethereum, DISCIPLINA features a private ledger of educational transcripts connected with the public ledger that contains Merkle roots of the private blocks as well as cryptocurrency transactions. DISCIPLINA uses Proof-of-Stake consensus for the public chain; the nodes that produce blocks would be chosen randomly with probability proportional to their stakes. The transactions on the public chain are subject to a fee that goes to a block issuer along with a block reward.

Another feature of DISCIPLINA is a fair data disclosure protocol, making it possible to trade valid data in exchange for cryptocurrency without disclosing the data to the public. The protocol cryptographically guarantees that, assuming k-depth public blocks are infeasible to revoke, neither the buyer nor the seller can cheat during the exchange.

In future, DISCIPLINA expects to have a web-of-trust based reputation system that parties will use to make assumptions on the quality of the transcripts. The parties will express their subjective beliefs about the quality of prior assessments. The beliefs would be merged using the transitive closure, yielding a personalized reputation distribution, i.e. the one that depends on a set of viewer’s beliefs.

DISCIPLINA Alpha

DISCIPLINA Alpha was released on 31 August 2018. It was the first public version which was launched on 4 nodes that were fully written by the project developers and overseen by DISCIPLINA team. The alpha version allowed users to test the real speed of transactions inside the prototype of the DISCIPLINA blockchain. The simplest type of transactions have been chosen for the alpha version: coin transfers between the wallets. Anyone can receive some coins to test it out through the official tool called Faucet.

To interact with the wallet, the Serokell team has developed the interface called Ariadne. In the early stages the wallet is available as a Flatpak for Linux and .dmg for MacOS. Distribution for Windows will be available soon. By using Ariadne, any user can import the wallet with their Secret Key, make transactions, track their balance, create new address and export their wallet. All transactions inside the test network are displayed in the Block Explorer DISCIPLINA.

DISCIPLINA team is planning to extend the functionality of the Alpha version before the end of 2018, specifically by adding prototypes for the Student and Educator app. These will help students and educators to interact with DISCIPLINA blockchain. The nodes themselves will remain private in 2018 because they need to be controlled during the alpha-testing.

CAMPUS

CAMPUS is an incubator, in which projects that use the DISCIPLINA blockchain or function within its ecosystem have the opportunity to receive the necessary support and investment. The incubator provides projects with financing in the amount between $50,000 and $200,000 in the course of every seed round.

The CAMPUS team consider both products and technologies being developed from scratch, and projects aimed at improving and optimizing already existing products for their further use in the DISCIPLINA network. Any project from around the world can apply to participate in the incubator. Priority is given to products related to the education and recruiting spheres.

Team

The project is managed by its founders and masterminds Ilya Nikiforov and Dmitry Gordovich, who have more than 15 years of successful business experience. DISCIPLINA team consists of 48 specialists that all around the world: Russia, the US, Canada, Estonia, Netherlands, South Korea, China, Spain. Software developers from Serokell, that is primarily known for the development of the Cardano cryptocurrency, are currently among the full participants of the DISCIPLINA team. The main office of the company is located in Saint-Petersburg, with two offices in the US and Estonia.

External links

• Official website

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