Badges on Nostr
Ring-Ring gives riders badges for movement it measured. A badge is not a row in our database — it is a signed message on a public network, and this is where you can read one.
What Ring-Ring gives badges for
Every badge a rider can earn today. Each one is a criterion, not a ranking — first to do a thing, against a count that does not move when somebody else joins or leaves.
Founding
Pilot tester
Riding and striding while this was still being built
How many Whoever joined before the pilot closed — never reissued
On our relay
Stewardship
365 days — red ring
365 calendar days since subscription started
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
3,650 gifts — orange ring
Accumulated 3,650 Gifts through rides + strides
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
Steward
Both thresholds met: 365 days + 3,650 Gifts
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
Movement
First ride
First detected cycling trip
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
First stride
First detected walking trip
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
First 10 km day
10+ km in a single day (walk + cycle combined)
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
500 km
500 km lifetime distance
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
1,000 km
1,000 km lifetime distance
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
2,500 km
2,500 km lifetime distance
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
5,000 km
5,000 km lifetime distance
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
10,000 km
10,000 km lifetime distance
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
21,000 km
21,000 km lifetime distance — half Earth's circumference
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
Streaks
7-day streak
7 consecutive active days
How many Unlimited — repeatable
On our relay
30-day streak
30 consecutive active days
How many Unlimited — repeatable
On our relay
90-day streak
90 consecutive active days
How many Unlimited — repeatable
On our relay
365-day streak
365 consecutive active days
How many Unlimited — repeatable
On our relay
Gifts
100 gifts
Accumulated 100 Gifts (= one Gift back, at any partner)
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
1,000 gifts
Accumulated 1,000 Gifts
How many Unlimited — permanent
On our relay
20 more designs are waiting on later work, and artists will be commissioned for them. They are not named here yet: a badge is a promise about a criterion, and a criterion that can still change is a promise we have not made.
What a badge is here
Three separate messages, each signed by a key. Ring-Ring publishes what the badge means and that a particular key earned it. The rider publishes which of their badges they want shown. Nobody can sign for anybody else.
That last part is the point. A rider's secret key never leaves their phone, so Ring-Ring cannot decide what a rider displays — and a rider cannot award themselves a badge. Two claims, two keys, and you can read both.
Which keys are Ring-Ring's
Two, with different jobs, so that one of them leaking cannot be used to do the other's work.
- Signs every badge
- npub19f3uf64d6fwn0l2wk3acnw030c88pd52wwldz3pxzg09juadrgpq52j5us
- Signs what Ring-Ring says out loud
- npub1nre0uwzp6ms7zf22kk905jar4ma70eum8z70hjzzhfklts777nuqyypa2x
Both are named in https://ring-ring.nu/.well-known/nostr.json, which only somebody who controls that domain can serve. That is what ties these keys to us rather than to anyone claiming our name.
Checking it without us
Every badge page prints the event ids it drew from and the relay that holds them. Ask that relay yourself, with any Nostr client:
wss://relay.ring-ring.nu
You get the same messages this site got. If we ever said something different, the difference would be visible — which is the only kind of trustworthy worth the trouble.