Gadjamada University (UGM), one of Indonesia’s oldest and largest public research universities, announced on Tuesday that it will be keeping student course records on-chain by adopting space and time, a decentralized database platform.
Students completing the course will write records directly on Space and Time Network to create immutable qualifications that can be shared with their employers and other schools.
The education framework aims to help “provide access to banks’ expanded modernized education” and to provide students with “a way to prove educational outcomes to any institution or employer around the world. Decryption.
By monitoring students on-chain, space and time hope that their database platform will help students overcome “intermediaries or traditional financial infrastructure” and “come on the other side with a trackable and verifiable record of what they have achieved.”
The deployment of UGM for an estimated 60,000 students begins with the English Proficiency Course as the first use case for certification on the chain, and is planned to be expanded to other courses. The university has also unveiled a new on-campus AI lab using Dreamspace, a space- and time-based tool that offers courses on building and deploying AI applications.
The initiative was introduced following a partnership between India Mobile Group, one of Indonesia’s largest automotive conglomerates, and Space and Time Foundation, which currently oversees the distributed database network developed by MakeInfinite Labs.
Space and Time custom chains pull data from multiple Blockchain Additionally, each query is distributed across the validator network supported by encrypted proofs, allowing applications to validate the results without relying on a single data source.
Verifiable education
Talk to Decryption On Tuesday of the week leading to Token2049 Singapore, representatives from the Space and Time Foundation described the components of the education program.
The heart of verifiable education. By placing course completion and diplomas on-chain, students avoid fragmented records across the institution, and instead create a single, immutable record that can be verified by their local employer or university.
The second component includes financial access through SXT, a native digital asset of space and time. Each student will receive a wallet preloaded with tokens and pay tuition and course fees directly. Space and time confirmed in Decryption There is no cost for students.
Still, some scholars warn that the promise of blockchain-based use cases in education is risky.
The 2025 ASEAN report on mobility in higher education noted that digital credentials can support cross-border recognition, but warned that digital preparation gaps could exacerbate inequality for students and institutions with fewer resources.
