Verifying Your Identity
Grainlify uses a quick identity check (KYC — "know your customer") to confirm real people are behind the accounts earning and receiving rewards.
Why it matters
- It's what triggers a referral payout — when someone you referred verifies their identity, that's the moment your 100 points land.
- It's expected before a points redemption is paid out, since redemptions send real USDC to a real wallet.
- A verified badge shows on your public profile as a trust signal to maintainers and other contributors.
How to verify
- Go to Settings → Billing Profiles and create a profile — today this is Individual only (self-employed and organization profiles are coming soon).
- Click Verify KYC.
- Complete the verification steps in the window that opens — you'll need a photo ID and a quick face match.
- Come back to Grainlify and your status will update automatically once it's done (this usually takes a few minutes).
Your status will show as pending, in review, verified, or, if something didn't go through, rejected — in which case you can simply try again.
Verification is instant to start, not instant to finish
Opening the verification window and submitting your ID takes a couple of minutes. The status update back on Grainlify (pending → verified) can lag slightly behind — if it's not showing as verified right after you finish, give it a few minutes before trying again.
Your data
Identity verification is handled by Didit, Grainlify's verification partner; Grainlify stores your resulting status and the identity details needed for payouts, not your raw ID photos.