In a world where educational credentials still depend on institutions, gatekeepers, and geography, one Vancouver-based platform is rewriting the rules. Geninfinity Education empowers learners to take ownership of their creations. It connects mentors across continents. And it permanently records every achievement on the blockchain.
The platform, co-founded by Ava Tian and Scott Venton, has recently received a 2025 Global Recognition Award for its innovative work in merging artificial intelligence with decentralized technology, addressing long-standing gaps in access, equity, and ownership in global education that have persisted for decades.
For Tian, this isn’t just about technology. It’s personal.
Tian, who brings two decades of experience in finance, education, and emerging technologies, designed Geninfinity to challenge a model that has long treated knowledge as a commodity controlled by centralized institutions. “We want every user to feel confident that their digital identity and achievements are truly theirs,” she explains.
The platform enables learners to build projects, change them into tokenized assets, and gain visibility among global mentors, investors, and venture capital sponsors. Rather than consuming content passively, users create portfolios that reflect genuine skills and intellectual property, verified through blockchain and smart contracts.
The recognition follows an evaluation process that employed the Rasch model, a probabilistic measurement framework used to create linear scales across multiple categories, allowing precise comparisons between applicants. Geninfinity Education scored consistently across service, innovation, teaching, and mentoring dimensions, positioning it among organizations that address structural challenges in their industries.
Technology That Personalizes And Every Learning Journey
Geninfinity Education’s platform uses artificial intelligence to personalize each learner’s journey from project ideation through completion, adapting dynamically to individual goals, skills, and interests. This approach departs from standardized educational models that have dominated for decades, often failing to account for the diverse needs of global populations. Learners do not simply consume content but build projects, which the platform then converts into verifiable NFT badges or tokens representing genuine achievement.
The difference is fundamental. Learners don’t simply consume content; they build projects, which the platform then converts into verifiable NFT badges or tokens representing genuine achievement.
Every learning milestone becomes a blockchain-registered credential, creating portable ownership of skills that transcends borders. Through smart contracts, every contribution is recorded immutably, ensuring fairness and recognition while building trust among participants who can independently verify their achievements.
Connecting Learners To A World of Mentors
The platform’s 108 Global Mentor Initiative connects learners with industry experts worldwide, changing what has traditionally been a solitary or locally constrained experience into borderless collaboration that transcends geographic and economic barriers. Decentralized evaluation ensures that achievements receive validation from artificial intelligence systems and mentors across diverse industries and countries, making learning outcomes translate directly into opportunities while maintaining transparency throughout the assessment process.
Building Systems Where Value Belongs To Participants
Geninfinity Education’s reach extends across international boundaries, serving learners who might otherwise lack access to premium educational resources or mentorship opportunities. The platform’s economic model ensures that value accrues to participants rather than to a centralized intermediary, creating lasting incentives for participation while ensuring program longevity.
The platform demonstrates impact through learners who build projects with market potential, mentors who gain access to emerging talent, and networks that benefit from transparent, community-driven validation of achievement. On-chain reputation systems record every contribution immutably, ensuring fairness and recognition while building trust among participants.
Collaboration is at the heart of the experience. Users can form teams, share ideas, and complete group projects, with contributions tracked throughout. A chat tool powered by artificial intelligence offers support as users proceed.
Users earn digital credentials for every project, skill, or milestone, with each credential registered through blockchain technology, creating a lasting record that can be shared with schools, employers, or collaborators. These records cannot be lost or falsified, and they clearly document the specific work completed, making it easier for others to understand and trust the user’s capabilities.
Recognition That Reflects Comprehensive Achievement
Geninfinity Education’s recognition reflects achievement across teaching innovation, mentoring infrastructure, and technological advancement. The platform facilitates career advancement through its mentoring programs, which serve mentees from diverse geographies, backgrounds, and skill levels, while contributing to organizational and industry talent development. Its global reach ensures that educational initiatives reach populations typically excluded from premium learning environments while maintaining standards of quality.
Alex Sterling, a spokesperson for the Global Recognition Awards, observed that “Geninfinity Education’s exceptional qualities, particularly its ability to merge technological sophistication with transparent governance and genuine user empowerment, positioned it as a clear example of world-class achievement that benefits not narrow constituencies but humanity broadly.” The platform’s integration of cutting-edge technology with decentralized principles addresses persistent challenges in global education: access, equity, and genuine ownership of skills.
Tian and Geninfinity Education have developed a model that demonstrates how education and innovation can serve as engines for equitable global participation, while creating sustainable pathways to economic opportunity. As education continues its shift toward digital platforms, the question of who owns learning outcomes, credentials, and intellectual property becomes not merely technical but foundational. It’s a question of how knowledge itself is valued, distributed, and ultimately, who it serves.
