Your public profile
What the public profile is
Your public profile is one page that carries your Cognivo identity, your rank, the badges you have earned and a summary of the public research you have run. It shows nothing about your email address, your wallets, your balances or your private searches.
Every account has a Cognivo ID, written as COGNI followed by two short blocks of characters. That ID is the name on the profile, and it is the only thing about you that other people see.
When to use it
Use it when someone asks what you have actually done in Cognivo and you would rather send a link than a screenshot. Use it the other way round when you see a Cognivo ID on Discover and you want to know how much research sits behind it before you pay attention to what it published.
Where to find it
In the dApp sidebar, select Public profile. Cognivo opens your own profile. Someone else's profile opens when you select their Cognivo ID on Discover, or when they send you their link.
- Select Copy public link to copy the address of this profile so you can paste it anywhere.
- Read the line beside the rank to see how much XP the profile has and how much more it needs to reach the next rank.
- Select Next to see the rest of the badges, the counter between Prev and Next shows which page you are on.
Badges
Badges record things the account has done in Cognivo, such as running wallet traces, checking approvals or working on a particular network. The heading carries the total, so BADGES (17) means seventeen badges have been earned in total. Twelve fit on a page, and the rest sit on the next page behind Next.
A badge is a record of activity. It is not a rating of accuracy and it is not a claim that the person is right about anything.
Public Stats
PUBLIC STATS counts the public work on the account. Total is the whole count, and the cards beside it break it down into Traces, Team Scans, Liquidity Checks and PnL Reports.
These numbers only count activity that was made public. Anything run privately is never added here, so a low number can mean a quiet account rather than an inactive one.
Achievements
ACHIEVEMENTS lists a short set of the milestones the account has reached. Under it are three buttons. Rewards and ranks explains how XP and ranks work, Explore Discover opens the public feed, and Privacy settings takes you to the controls that decide what your own profile shows.
What you get back, and what a blank page means
A new account looks sparse, and that is normal. The rank card stays empty until you have earned XP, and the badges section says that badges will appear here as they are earned.
If you open a link and see This profile is private or not found, Cognivo is telling you it could not show that profile. That can mean the person has chosen not to be findable, or that no such profile exists. It does not mean the account has done nothing.
If your own profile is the one that will not open for other people, go to Settings, open Privacy and Discover, and turn on the setting that lets other people find you. The same section has separate switches for Show badges, Show stats, and Show follower and following counts, so you can publish a profile while keeping parts of it quiet.
Limits and cost
Viewing a profile, copying its link and sharing it are free. No credits are used anywhere on this page, and no confirmation is asked for.
The profile describes activity, not truth. A high rank, a long badge list and a large Total all say that an account has used Cognivo a lot. None of them say that its conclusions were correct, and none of them make the account trustworthy. Read what a profile published and judge that on its own evidence.
Numbers on the profile can also lag slightly behind a check you have only just run.
What to do next
- Choose what your profile publishes in Account & Settings.
- See the public feed your published research appears in on Discover.
- Check what a check costs before you run it in Cognivo Tools and Credit Costs.