What Is Linked to Your Identifier, Including the Part That Is Public

There are two answers to this question and only one of them is on your screen. The useful version is the difference between them.

What the interface shows you

Your identifier, copyable.

Your per-chain addresses, derived from the same phrase. There is no linking step; they arrive together.

Your credential catalogue: what you hold, who issued it, and when it expires. The bodies are not stored, so this is a list rather than a folder.

A verified-identity marker, shown only when you hold an active credential of the identity kind. It is conditional, not decorative.

What a stranger can see, which is more than you might expect

Your identifier resolves on a public chain. Anyone can look it up, and nobody needs your permission or an account.

And once you set a recovery policy, your guardian list is part of what resolves. We read the shared package's own test vector, which pins the on-chain shape: a policy carrying a list of guardian identifiers, a threshold, and a delay.

That test exists specifically to lock byte-parity with the chain, so the shape it asserts is the shape the chain accepts.

So the people you trust most are recorded publicly against your identifier, along with how many of them it takes.

Why it has to be that way, and what it costs

The chain enforces the policy. It cannot enforce a rule it cannot read, so the guardian set and the threshold have to be on-chain for recovery to work without trusting an operator.

The cost is a small public social graph. Not names, but identifiers, and identifiers that somebody who already knows one guardian can use to connect the rest.

The application does tell you the policy is written on-chain. It does not spell out that the guardian identifiers become publicly readable, which is the part worth knowing before you choose people. It sharpens the advice on choosing guardians: do not nominate somebody whose association with you they would not want recorded.

What is not linked, and is worth stating

Your balances are not part of your identifier. The identity key never holds or moves value, and the identifier is a value-free anchor by design.

Your credential contents are not on-chain. Only the fact that you hold them, and only in a database rather than in the document.

Nothing links your identifier to a legal name unless a credential you present says so, and presenting is not something this wallet can do yet.

How to check for yourself

Copy your identifier from the identity screen and resolve it against the public chain. You do not need an account, and you can do it from a machine that has never seen your wallet.