PANews reported on July 31st that, according to Cointelegraph, the Philippine government announced that it would begin notarizing documents on the Polygon blockchain. On Wednesday, Maria Francesca Montes-Del Rosario, Undersecretary of the Department of Budget and Management, announced in a Facebook post that the government's blockchain transparency initiative has officially launched. She stated that blockchain can address the issue of AI-generated deepfakes and prevent criminals from forging government documents. She also stated that cutting-edge technologies such as AI and blockchain are being used to improve public policymaking and governance. In such applications, blockchain serves as an uneditable public database, providing permanent record-keeping. After the Department of Budget and Management's operational document issuance system generates a document, a representation of the data is recorded on the Polygon blockchain. The government's official website allows users to search or scan a code to verify key details of the document.