Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), one of the oldest and largest public research universities in Indonesia, has announced on Tuesday that it will start with storing student courses on the chain by taking space and time, a decentralized database platform.
Students who complete courses have written their data directly to the Space and Time Network, creating an unchanging reference that they can share with employers or other schools.
The educational framework is intended to help offer “extensive, modernized teaching access to the insignificants” and to give students a way to prove their educational performance to each institution or employer in the world, “Scott Dykstra, co-founder and CTO of Space and Time, said Decrypt.
By boarding students at the chain, the space and the time that his database platform can help students overcome “intermediaries or traditional financial infrastructure” and “come the other way with a traceable, verifiable report of what they have achieved,” said Dykstra.
The rollout of UGM for its estimated 60,000 students starts with English skills courses as the first use case for login details on the chain, with planned extensions to other courses. The university has also announced a new AI laboratory on campus using DreamSpace, a tool built on space and time, which will offer courses on the construction and use of AI applications.
The initiative was introduced after a partnership between Indomobil Group, one of the largest car congregations in congregation, and the Space and Time Foundation, which now supervises the decentralized database network that was originally developed by Makeinfinite Labs.
The custom chain of Space and Time draws data from several block chains And it distributes it over a validator network, in which each query is supported by cryptographic evidence, allowing applications to verify results without trusting a single data source.
Verifiable education
Creeks with Decrypt On Tuesday during the week that led to Token2049 Singapore, a representative for the Space and Time Foundation explained the components of the educational program.
The first centers on verifiable education. By placing completion and diplomas course at the chain, students avoid fragmented records between institutions and instead make a single, unchanging record that employers or universities outside the local population can confirm.
The second component includes financial access via SXT, the native digital active of space and time. Every student receives a wallet that is loaded with tokens to pay tuition fees and course costs directly, in a system that the company says is designed to achieve it without traditional bank accounts. Space and time confirmed with Decrypt There are no costs for students.
Yet some scientists warn that the promise of blockchain-based use cases in education entails risks.
An ASEAN report from 2025 on higher education mobility noted that digital references can support cross-border recognition of qualifications, but warned that gaps in digital readiness can aggravate inequalities for students and institutions with fewer sources.