Most "verified" badges online mean a company checked a box next to your name once and moved on. KXCO Identity is narrower and, we think, more honest about what it actually proves: a specific person at KXCO issued this credential to you directly, it's registered on a public ledger, and every change to your public page passes through a human before anyone else sees it. Here is how to actually use it, start to finish.
Note, August 2026: KXCO Nexus and KXCO Meridian have been merged and Meridian is the surviving product. Public member pages now live at meridian.kxco.ai/p/your-handle, and profile details are edited from the Profile view once you are signed in to Meridian. The emailed edit-link steps in sections 03 and 05 below describe the retired flow and are kept here as a record of how the credential was issued. Everything about what the credential is, what it proves and how anyone verifies it is unchanged.
01 · What it is, in one paragraph
A KXCO Identity is a public profile page at meridian.kxco.ai/p/your-handle, backed by an ML-DSA-65 post-quantum credential registered on KXCO's Armature L1 ledger. It carries your name and a short bio, always public, plus whichever of your phone, Telegram handle, LinkedIn links and photo you choose to show. Anyone who lands on the page can ask to verify you're really you, and gets a confirmed answer back.
It is not a general-purpose login or a crypto wallet you use day to day. It exists to answer one question credibly: is this the person KXCO says it is. Everything below follows from that.
02 · Getting one issued
There is no signup form. A KXCO super-admin issues your identity by entering your name and email into an internal tool, and that action is the vetting step: it is only ever done for staff and people KXCO already knows directly. There is no third-party KYC check in this phase, deliberately, and it stays that way until a KYC provider is onboarded for wider issuance later.
Issuing an identity does real work behind the scenes: it generates a wallet and a separate ML-DSA-65 credential keypair, funds the wallet with a small amount of Armature's native token so it has an on-chain footprint, and registers the credential against KXCO's own institution record on the identity registry. None of that requires anything from you. You find out it happened when the setup email arrives.
03 · Setting up your profile
The setup email contains a link to sign.kxco.ai/identity/manage, already carrying a token that identifies you. There's no password to create or remember; the email address your identity was issued to is the only credential involved. Click it and you land on an edit form pre-filled with whatever's on file so far.
The fields:
- Name. Always public. Editable, in case you'd rather appear under a slightly different form of your name than the one an admin typed in.
- Bio. Up to 600 characters, always public. This is the one field worth writing carefully; it's what fills the meta description and social preview when your page gets shared.
- Photo. Uploaded once and resized automatically to a fixed square, so the page never has to load an oversized original.
- Phone, Telegram handle, up to three LinkedIn URLs. Each has its own public or private toggle.
If the link has expired, which happens after 30 minutes, go back to sign.kxco.ai/identity/manage and enter your email again. If it matches an active identity, a fresh link is on its way; if it doesn't, the page says the same thing either way; it never confirms or denies whose email has an identity and whose doesn't.
04 · What's always public, and what's your call
Name and bio are permanently public. A page with neither visible isn't really a profile, so there's no toggle for them. Everything else, your email, phone, Telegram handle, LinkedIn links and photo, defaults to private and stays that way until you explicitly switch it on.
That default matters more than it looks. Most of the people this gets issued to didn't ask for a public web page; they had one built for them as part of doing business with KXCO. Defaulting the optional fields to hidden means the page is never more exposed than the minimum, name plus a sentence, until you actively decide otherwise.
05 · Submit, then wait: the review step
This is the part that differs from almost every other profile editor. Clicking save doesn't publish anything. It creates a pending request, and your public page keeps showing whatever was last approved until a KXCO admin reviews the new one and approves or rejects it.
A few things follow from that design:
- You can resubmit freely. Editing again while something's still pending replaces the draft rather than queuing a second one behind it, so a reviewer only ever sees your latest intent.
- You'll know what's pending. Reopen the edit link and the form shows your submitted values, with a note that they're awaiting review, rather than the stale live ones.
- You hear back either way. Approval emails you that it's live. Rejection emails you the reason and invites another try; nothing is deleted, and the live page is untouched.
- A photo you don't resubmit survives. Updating your bio alone doesn't wipe out a photo you uploaded in an earlier, already-approved round.
Because the page is public and carries KXCO's name next to yours. A review queue costs an admin a minute per change and catches the kind of thing an automated filter won't: something off-brand, a broken link, a photo that isn't actually you. It is a small amount of friction in exchange for every public page staying something KXCO would stand behind.
06 · Your public page, and who reads it
Once approved, your page is a plain, fast-loading profile: name, photo if you've made it public, your bio, and whichever contact details and social links you've switched on, plus a form for verifying you. It's built to be read by two different audiences, and both get the same facts.
A human visiting the page sees ordinary meta tags and Open Graph data, so sharing the link produces a proper preview card with your name and bio. Underneath that, the page also carries a schema.org Person block in JSON-LD: your name, your bio, your public social links, and your credential's identifier, in a structured format a search engine or an AI answer tool can read directly rather than having to guess from prose. If your bio is blank, that block simply omits the description field rather than showing an empty one; nothing about the page ever states something that isn't true.
07 · How someone verifies you
Anyone who reaches your page, a counterparty checking who they're dealing with, a journalist, someone you handed a business card to, can confirm you're a real KXCO Identity holder without contacting KXCO directly. They fill in their own email address and tick a box agreeing to hear from KXCO, and submit.
That combination does two things at once, deliberately. It sends them a confirmation email; clicking the link in it is what actually proves the email address is real and completes the verification. And ticking the box is how they end up in KXCO's own lead list, tagged so it's clear they arrived through your profile page specifically. That's the trade being offered: a confirmed answer about you, in exchange for a real way to reach them later. Nobody reaches this step without knowing that's the deal, since the box has to be ticked before anything is submitted.
08 · Under the hood: what KXCO holds, and why
Two separate keypairs sit behind every identity, and KXCO holds both. A wallet keypair, whose only job is to have an address the credential can be registered against and to hold a small amount of Armature's native token as an on-chain footprint. And an ML-DSA-65 credential keypair, the actual post-quantum signature used to register your identity on Armature L1's identity registry and, later, to sign on your behalf where a KXCO Identity signature is called for elsewhere in KXCO's products.
Both are generated once, encrypted at rest, and never handed to you, downloaded, or displayed anywhere. That's a deliberate trade against a self-custody model where you'd hold your own keys: it removes any burden of managing a private key from you entirely, at the cost of KXCO being the one place trust in the credential ultimately rests. The wallet is explicitly not something you're meant to use for anything; it exists purely so the credential has a place to live on-chain.
The credential itself is registered under KXCO's own institution record on the identity registry, meaning KXCO's relay is the only party that can issue or revoke it, and issuance and revocation are both real, auditable on-chain transactions rather than a database flag.
09 · The limits, stated plainly
An article that lists only capabilities is a brochure. These are the honest boundaries of what exists today.
- There's no self-serve path. If you want one and haven't been issued one, the request has to go through someone at KXCO who already knows you. That's a feature of this phase, not an oversight, but it does mean the credential can't yet scale to strangers.
- It isn't KYC. Nothing here checks a government ID or runs a sanctions screen. "Admin-attested" means exactly what it says: a person vouching for another person they already know, nothing more rigorous.
- You can't hold your own key. If full self-custody of your credential matters to you, this isn't that model, and there's no toggle to change it.
- Review adds a delay. A change you submit doesn't appear the moment you save it. It waits for an admin, which is ordinarily quick but is not instantaneous by design.
- Revocation is real and final for that credential. If an identity is revoked, for example because someone leaves, the on-chain credential stops validating and the public page stops resolving; a new one would need to be issued from scratch.
- The verify flow is an honesty check, not a background check. It confirms a real, reachable email address requested verification. It says nothing about who that person is beyond having clicked a link in their own inbox.
10 · Questions people ask
Can I sign up for a KXCO Identity myself?
Not today. Issuance is admin-attested: a KXCO super-admin who already knows you directly issues it, by name and email. There is no self-serve signup and no third-party KYC step in this phase, deliberately, until a KYC provider is onboarded for wider issuance.
Do I ever see or hold a private key?
No. KXCO generates and holds both keys involved, a wallet keypair and a separate ML-DSA-65 credential keypair, encrypted at rest. The wallet is not for you to use; it exists only so the on-chain credential has an address to be registered against. When the system needs to sign on your behalf, it does so with the key it holds for you.
What can I edit myself, and what happens when I submit?
Name, bio, phone, Telegram handle, up to three LinkedIn URLs, and a profile photo, plus which of those beyond name and bio are visible publicly. Nothing you submit reaches your public page immediately. It becomes a pending request, an admin reviews it, and only an approval publishes it. You get an email either way.
How does someone verify I'm a real KXCO Identity holder?
They visit your public profile page and use the verify form: their email address, and a required tick agreeing to hear from KXCO. That combination proves the email is real and is also how they end up in KXCO's own lead list, tagged to your profile. A confirmation email seals it.
Is my page actually built for AI search tools, not just Google?
Yes. Alongside the usual meta description and Open Graph tags, every profile carries schema.org Person structured data, name, bio, public social links and credential ID, in a machine-readable block rather than prose an AI has to infer from.
What if I lose access to my edit link?
Links expire after 30 minutes and aren't single-use within that window, so you can fix a typo without asking again. Once it expires, go to sign.kxco.ai/identity/manage and enter the email your identity was issued to; a fresh link is emailed to you if that address has an active identity.
KXCO Identity runs on meridian.kxco.ai, registered on Armature L1 alongside every other quantum-resistant credential KXCO issues, with the Meridian product overview at kxco.ai/meridian. KXCO Identity is operated by Knightsbridge Financial Ltd, trading as KXCO. KXCO is a software company and nothing here is legal, financial or investment advice.