About Setara Network
Setara is India's first Proof-of-Authority blockchain purpose-built for document verification — making tamper-proof records accessible, affordable, and auditable for every organization across the country.
Our Mission
Setara's mission is to make document verification accessible, tamper-proof, and affordable for every organization in India.
Credential fraud costs Indian institutions crores of rupees every year. Verification today relies on phone calls, PDFs, and manual checks that are slow, expensive, and trivially forged. Setara replaces that with an immutable on-chain record that anyone can query in under two seconds — no middleman, no fee, no trust required.
< 2s
Verification time
Zero
Gas fees
5,000
Free credits on signup
100%
NBF compliant
How It Works
Four steps from signup to your first verified document. No blockchain expertise required.
Register Your Organization
Sign up at setara.network, receive API credentials, and get 5,000 free credits instantly. No wallet setup, no token purchase required.
Upload Document to IPFS
Your document is stored on IPFS via your organization's node, producing a content-addressed hash that uniquely fingerprints the file.
Register Hash On-Chain
The document hash is written to the Setara blockchain via a single REST API call. One credit is deducted from your balance — 1 credit = 1 INR.
Anyone Can Verify
Any party with the document hash can query the public verification endpoint. No account, no login, no fees. Authenticity confirmed in under 2 seconds.
Billing uses fiat credits in INR — 1 credit = 1 document registration. No cryptocurrency, no wallet, no exchange.
Technology
Setara is built on the Cosmos SDK v0.53.6 — the same battle-tested runtime powering Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, and dozens of sovereign appchains globally. CometBFT delivers Byzantine fault-tolerant finality without energy-intensive proof-of-work.
IBC interoperability means Setara is not a walled garden. As the ecosystem matures, cross-chain document attestation becomes possible without bespoke bridge infrastructure.
Technical Specifications
- Runtime
- Cosmos SDK v0.53.6 with CometBFT consensus
- Consensus
- Proof-of-Authority — organizations become validators, not miners
- Interoperability
- IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) protocol native support
- Gas Fees
- Zero — no gas, no tokens, no cryptocurrency
- Billing
- Fiat credits in INR — 1 credit = 1 document registration
- Storage
- IPFS for document content; only hash fingerprints stored on-chain
- Network ID
- setara-testnet-1 (testnet) · setara-1 (mainnet, planned)
- Free Tier
- 5,000 credits on signup — verify your first 5,000 documents at no cost
NBF Compliance
Setara is architected from the ground up for 100% alignment with India's National Blockchain Framework. Compliance is not a layer added on top — it is a fundamental design constraint.
Data Localization
All validator nodes and API infrastructure operate within Indian data centres. Citizen and enterprise data never crosses physical national boundaries unless explicitly programmed via IBC rules.
Permissioned Write Architecture
Only registered, KYC-verified organizations may write to the chain. Anyone may read and verify — this public-permissioned model is the exact architecture prescribed by India's National Blockchain Framework.
CERT-In Audit Readiness
CometBFT consensus logs are deterministically verifiable, enabling streamlined audit processes from empanelled CERT-In cybersecurity agencies without bespoke log extraction tooling.
Immutable Audit Trail
Every document registration is timestamped, attributed to a registered organization, and permanently recorded. No administrator — including Setara — can alter or delete a record once committed.
Open Source
The Setara chain, API server, and deployment tooling are open source. Every line of consensus code is publicly auditable. Organizations deploying validators can inspect exactly what they are running — no black-box binaries, no hidden logic.
Get in Touch
Whether you are a university evaluating document verification, a government institution with compliance questions, or a developer looking to integrate the API — we would like to hear from you.
Contact Setara NetworkDeveloper Resources
Full REST API documentation, SDK examples for Node.js, Python, and Go, and a step-by-step integration guide are available in the developer docs.
View Developer DocsStart Verifying Documents Today
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