VerifyEmail Laravel 9 and crud API

Hello everyone, I'm doing my first steps with Laravel and I want to implement a CRUD api to register a user. The client is on a Node.js server so I can't make use of resources in laravel.

If there is a POST request, where the user fields arrive, I have to send an email to the user to confirm it. What is the best way to do this?

What I mean is that I can save the values ​​in the database and know if they registered their email or not if the confirmed field is complete in the DB table

This is the migration:

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

return new class extends Migration
{
   
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('ciudadanos', function (Blueprint $table) {
            
            $table->id();
            $table->bigInteger('cuil')->unique();
            $table->string('nombre');
            $table->string('apellido');
            $table->string('email');
            $table->string('password');

            $table->timestamp('email_verified_at')->nullable();
            $table->boolean('confirmed')->default(0);
            $table->string('confirmation_code')->nullable();

            $table->rememberToken();
            $table->timestamps();
            
        });
    }
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('ciudadanos');
    }
 }

This are the fields I'd use to implement verify email:

 $table->timestamp('email_verified_at')->nullable();
 $table->boolean('confirmed')->default(0);
 $table->string('confirmation_code')->nullable();

So, in the controller store method:

public function store(Request $request)
    {    
        $this->validate($request, [
            'cuil'=>'required',
            'nombre'=>'required',
            'apellido'=>'required',
            'email'=>'required',
            'password'=>'required',
        ]);
       
        $ciudadano = Ciudadano::create($validated);

        //new code to confirm email

        $ciudadano->confirmation_code = rand(500, 15000);
        send_email($ciudadano->confirmation_code);

        $ciudadano->save();
        return ("OK");
    }

There is this lines:

        $ciudadano->confirmation_code = rand(500, 15000);
        send_email($ciudadano->confirmation_code);

Then, upon receiving OK, the user will show a screen where they must enter the code that came by email and there the field is updated $table->boolean('confirmed')->default(0); in the DB

What do you think? It's a good way to do it?

Thanks in advance