Org profiles are a key element as we continue to build the onchain network of verified profiles. An initial organisation type that we are catering to are education and bootcamp providers and this first release caters to these users, with the ability to add Courses that are offered. Currently these are simple links but you can imagine the functionality we can build around this through a web3 lens of users and orgs having ownership and agency over their own data.

We are now working on enabling those education providers to issue onchain certification to multiple users. The hard work has been done with DIDs, soulbound NFTs and verifiable credentials providing the backbone for these verified certificates.

More org profile sections, with more functionality will be coming soon.

We've also been working hard behind the scenes on the initial organisation partnerships that will start to drive this network. Watch this space and we are available to discuss of course!

Explore Page

You can now explore other user and org profiles as well as badges that are available on the platform. To view users and orgs you must be registered or logged in.

The UI is simple and more granular detail, filters search etc, will be added, but you can start to find your colleagues, relevant orgs and badges that you can earn and award to others on the platform.

¡Hasta luego!

Badge Endorsements as Soulbound NFT Attributes

• Soulbound NFT skill badges can now be endorsed by other users.

• Counts number of endorsements and lists users for reputation purposes.

• Endorsement is onchain as NFT Attribute with Smart Contracts Updated to enable this Soulbound NFT Endorsement Attribute.

• Note: Endorsement is not yet subsidised, and therefore requires the user's profile wallet to be topped up from an EOA wallet before endorsing. Profile wallet address found at profile edit/general. Profile.io's wallets are account abstracted wallets automatically created upon registration with email.

Conceal Profile Records

• Profile structure is: Profile Sections; Containing sub-sections; Containing Onchain Identity Assets such as Soulbound NFTs.

• Update to enable user to conceal and reveal profile sub-sections.

Badge Creation Improvements

• Improved selection from existing skill badges, or ability to create new skill badge as soulbound nft

• Improved badge / NFT image editor.

Side Panel Upgrades and other UI improvements

• When click badge detail from a profile page can now:

  • View badge / NFT detail, including badge graphic in side panel

  • View endorsements of the badge

  • Invite others with badge.

  • Differing views for non-logged in visitors; logged in visitors; profile owner.

• Registration / login UI improvements

• User invites with soulbound nft skill badge improvements.

• Accepting skill badge improvements.

In development

• Organisation Profiles

• Onramp to Profile.io wallet.

We were driven to start profile.io because of a few things. I have been close to the social space since I first signed up to Friendster, so before Facebook or Myspace were even conceived (which partly shows my age). Somewhere in a drawer is my napkin diagram from the early 2000s of what an ideal online social network would comprise - maybe I can dig that out from the loft one day. These early utopian ideals received a reality check over the last 20 years through working with and alongside the highs and lows of the now incumbent social media platforms. web2 was great when it was driven by open APIs but as these have locked down, the need to reinvigorate an alternative paradigm has become greater.

The internet's technical backbone, driven by web3 and opensource technologies is now reaching a point where some of those ideals can be executed, learning from incumbents but offering more utility. Hence, profile.io.

Practical and Utility Drivers

Profile.io is a product of another UK based tech startup called Tabled Technologies - initially a workflow automation and AI platform, that moved into onchain identity assets through working with governments putting permits and licences onchain for verification purposes. This highlighted the massive potential use cases of onchain identity assets for both verification and as standardised encryption keys to unlock value - DIDs, soulbound nfts, verifiable credentials are all in our toolbox but need a user friendly home - one that does not come with the complexity of crypto wallets - and account abstraction provides us with that framework. More on all these technologies later.

As a web3 startup, we were struggling to find great people to build with - the incumbent social / work platforms were simply littered with fake profiles, or real people claiming fake credentials. We needed a better way to find skills, to maximise individual and collective contribution - profile.io.

We were also seeing how value on the incumbent platforms was not deriving to users and organisations. We all know the saying that if a service is free then you are the product, but with Web3, we can empower users to own their own data, to build their own products and value. Incumbent platforms have limited or no ability to export our data, integrate services or make use of the richness of the internet - we wanted to create something completely programmable, and in future, with open source components to let the community build - profile.io.

Mission - Sovereignty, Building Trust and Uniting Users

The web3 community of builders and creators, and its leaders like Vitalik, driven by cypherpunk values, are also a huge inspiration. Proof of personhood and trust is a key missing link to enable decentralised and self-sovereign management of your online / onchain self and trusted interactions with others - and profile.io is here to help address this lacuna. Crypto wallets don't yet make this easy either.

The web3 community has long championed and respected privacy and anonymity, for example, using nft pfps instead of a personal photo. Other communities are happy to interact and transact in the full light of day using real names and images. Our vision is to unite these users and cater to them all. Zero-knowledge proof protocols can now take us on that mission - letting people and organisations verify their online self - either revealing who they are, or not.

Our mission is building profile.io to provide programmable, user-owned profiles, that can be used anywhere online and housing granular, verifiable identity assets to unlock untold future value to holders while enabling trusted, non-intermediated payments. It is not a short journey, but we invite everyone to join us and help us shape it.

Thanks for reading!

Paul, co-founder, profile.io

To claim https://profile.io/yourname or your favorite username as your exclusive profile handle, sign up now!

Claim Your Profile.io Username

As an early user, you will find the platform is far from finished or perfect. Our aim for your first use is that you can:

Easily sign up and claim your profile url and username;

Add your first profile skill badge, which you can mint for free as a soulbound nft (we handle the gas fees).

Invite 1 or more of your friends to join the platform, to claim their profile. You can send them their own skill badge nft for their profile.

Add some other details in your profile, like work experience.

Come back later and enhance your profile, build your network and experience new features as we introduce them

We will be building in public, and building what you want for your profile.so please give us feedback and product suggestions using the form below. You can also read our full documentation and roadmap which will be updating all the time.

Your Profile is your Product.

We are building Profile.io to become your ultimate online profile, that you own, to use anywhere on the web. Your space to show off your content and interests, document your skills and experience, find courses, jobs and events and with our integrated wallet, pay others, get paid and unlock value.

In the near future, you will be able to customise your Profile, with easy to use tools, or go deeper into the code with open source sections, to integrate services from across the web.

Profile.io is not another centralised internet company, where users are the product. With Profile.io, you own your data, with badges issued as onchain soulbound nfts, that you can take anywhere. In future, your blockchain based credentials will have huge value, unlocking access to benefits and perks. This doesn't exist yet, but we want to go on a journey with you to get there!

Feedback Form

Profile.io Roadmap

Thank you and we can't wait to go on this journey with you!

Paul, co-founder Profile.io