Alumni need diplomas, transcripts, and reference letters re-verified constantly, for jobs, immigration, and further study, and most of that demand currently routes through registrar staff doing manual lookups on records that predate any digital system the university uses today.
What self-service verification unlocks
A verifiable credential issued once, at graduation, as a portable digital record — signed, checkable independently, and held by the alumnus rather than the registrar — turns a two-week request into an instant check. It also gives the university a live, addressable channel to its own alumni base for the first time.
KC's SATU Alumni ITB program is built exactly on this model: targeting Institut Teknologi Bandung's roughly 250,000-strong alumni base, with a 50,000-graduate activation goal in year one, using a non-custodial wallet, W3C-standard decentralized identifiers, and verifiable credentials so alumni control and reuse their own records without going back to the registrar each time.
The takeaway
An alumni network is a university's largest untapped trust asset. Making its records self-service isn't just a convenience — it's the infrastructure a real endowment and engagement strategy has to sit on top of.