The article is devoted to the possibilities of using blockchain technology in education. It describes the technology, its features, the structure of databases formed. The fields of application of the technology are defined. Its advantages associated with a distributed register, transaction security, transparency of actions, anonymity are considered from the point of view of educational needs. The problem of trust, reliability, security and validity is raised. Examples of effective use of

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... ain in education are given. A new blockchain system that operates on a linearly scalable consensus mechanism is presented. The importance of blockchain technology for global education, intra- and inter-country comparisons of Sustainable Development Goal 4, Global Action Agenda for ESD, is justified. The possibility of increasing the utility of blockchain when combined with artificial intelligence technology is presented.