Embeddable badge
Put the verdict where people already are.
One line. It renders inline as an SVG, carries no script, sets no cookie, and refreshes every 5 minutes. Anyone who clicks it lands on the full breakdown, where every weight and every threshold is written out.
Demo dataSnippets
Swap the address for your own. Everything after /badge/ is a 0x-prefixed address; the .svg is optional but worth keeping, because some hosts will not treat an extensionless URL as an image.
<img src="https://scienter.xyz/badge/0x1966374a32a29d76b0acbb9bfa68a95f86f4208b.svg" alt="Scienter score" />[](https://scienter.xyz/wallets/0x1966374a32a29d76b0acbb9bfa68a95f86f4208b/why)https://scienter.xyz/badge/0x1966374a32a29d76b0acbb9bfa68a95f86f4208b.svghttps://scienter.xyz/wallets/0x1966374a32a29d76b0acbb9bfa68a95f86f4208b/whyX and Farcaster bios do not render images, so the last row is a link to the breakdown rather than to the badge — which is the better link anyway. Use the image form in a README, a Discord embed, a Notion page, a docs site, or anywhere else that accepts HTML or Markdown.
What it will and will not say
It shows a score when
- the deployment is reading a live engine, and
- the address has enough closed observations to be judged, and
- the judgment survived the input gates.
Otherwise it says so
- not judged — no published judgment. Not a clean bill of health; nobody has looked.
- demo data — this deployment is serving the seeded world. No digits are rendered at all.
- bad address — the URL is not a 0x-prefixed 20-byte address.
The refusals are the point. A badge travels without its context and carries our name as an endorsement, so it will not render a seeded number and it will not render a zero for an address nobody has judged. That costs reach, deliberately: a badge that lies is a liability sitting on somebody else’s profile.
Caching and rate limits
Every response carries max-age=300, s-maxage=300, stale-while-revalidate=600 and a weak ETag over the rendered bytes, so a repeat view usually costs a 304. There is no per-caller rate limit: the badge is meant to be hotlinked, and rate-limiting the thing whose whole purpose is to be embedded on other people’s pages would be self-defeating.
A score can change between refreshes. It is a judgment about a track record, and a track record moves.