Rewards, XP, badges and free checks
What Rewards is
Rewards is the page that keeps score of how you use Cognivo. It tracks the XP you earn as you run checks, the rank and badges that XP unlocks, and the free checks you can earn by sharing your findings publicly.
None of it costs anything. Rewards only gives things out.
When to use it
Open Rewards when you want to answer a question like "how far am I from the next rank", "which badges have I unlocked", or "do I have a free check I can spend on my next report".
Where to find it
In the Cognivo dApp sidebar, open Account, then Rewards. If you have an old bookmark pointing at /account/rewards, it now sends you to the same page, because the free check wallet that used to live there is now a tab here.
The page has four tabs: Overview, Free checks, Badges and XP history.
- Use the tabs to move between Overview, Free checks, Badges and XP history.
- Read the bar to see how far along you are toward the next rank and how much XP is still needed.
- Select Competitions to open the competitions page.
The Overview tab is the summary. Your rank card shows the rank you hold now, your total XP, the next rank up, and how much more XP that rank needs. Below it sit three counters for total XP, badges unlocked and free checks ready, and a short panel called How to earn XP and free checks that lists the actions that count: running traces and liquidity checks, investigating wallets, sharing verified findings, and entering competitions.
XP history
The XP history tab is the receipt behind the number. Each entry names the action that earned the XP, the surface it came from, how much XP it was worth and how long ago it happened.
If the list is empty, it means Cognivo has not recorded any XP for your account yet, not that XP was lost. Run a check and the entry appears here.
Badges
The Badges tab shows the full badge set, not only the ones you hold. A counter at the top reads how many of the total you have unlocked. You can search by name and filter by category and by rarity, and the grid is paged.
Each card carries the badge name, a one line description of what earns it, its category and rarity, and either the date you unlocked it or the word Locked. Locked is the normal state for a badge you have not met the condition for yet.
Free checks
A free check is a voucher that pays for one eligible check in the dApp instead of your credits. You earn one for every three verified public shares of your findings.
The Your next free check panel counts your verified shares toward the next voucher. Only verified shares move that bar. Below it, Your free checks breaks your vouchers into four states: Ready to use, Reserved against a check in progress, Used, and Expired.
When a voucher is waiting for you, Claim free checks moves it into your Ready count. If nothing is waiting, Cognivo says so in plain words rather than showing a number that is not real. Free checks apply to eligible dApp checks only, cannot be exchanged for credits or cash, and may expire.
Getting a share verified
Sharing a finding is not enough on its own. You post it publicly, then paste the link back into Cognivo so a person can confirm the post is real and public.
- Open the Choose which share to verify list and pick the share your post was about.
- Paste the link to your public post into the Paste your public post link field.
- Select Submit for review. The Cognivo team reads each post before it counts, so a submitted link does not guarantee a free check.
- Watch the qualified count next to each action to track your progress, because every three verified shares unlock one free check.
Underneath, Qualified shares by action breaks your progress down by what you shared, showing how many of each action qualified out of the total you did.
Reading the verification states
Every share you have submitted keeps its own row, so you can see what happened to it.
- Pending verification means Cognivo is waiting on the post link, or on the review.
- On cooldown means you shared the same finding again too quickly. You can submit it once the cooldown passes.
- Not verified means the post could not be confirmed. Cognivo shows the reason and the share earns nothing. It does not mean your account is in trouble.
- Recorded means the action was logged but does not need verification.
How Cognivo keeps it fair
The rules are stated on the page itself. The post has to be public so anyone, including the Cognivo team, can open it. Shares to private chats and unlisted links are excluded. Duplicate shares of the same result count once. There is a cooldown between shares of the same finding. Trying to game the system can forfeit pending rewards.
Submitting a link does not guarantee a free check, because the Cognivo team reads each post first.
Cost
Rewards is free to use, on every tab. Earning XP, unlocking badges, claiming free checks and submitting shares for verification never spend credits.
Free checks reduce what you pay for the small number of checks that do cost credits. Bubble Maps costs 1 credit, Smart Accounts costs 2 credits, and Wallet Intelligence costs 6 credits. Every account also gets 5 free credits per day, which reset at midnight UTC.
One thing to expect
The Rewards page headings and tab names are shown in English even when you have set the rest of the dApp to another language.