The mysterious fingerprint badge
Almost a year ago, the Niantic Profile was added to Ingress. On Twitter, this was announced with the picture above, showing where to find it and how it looks. What most people almost instantly spotted was a never before seen badge in the design of a fingerprint.
Writing with PAC at the time, he wrote to me: "I think it is related to a project I have been tracking. The NIA have been working on for a while probably even when Nemesis was here. Looks like it is about to surface."
Sadly, almost a year later, this badge still hasn't appeared. The point of this post? Bugging @NianticBrian and maybe @NianticThia so we can finally know what this badge was for (or if it may be used in the future) and for me to finally find some sleep again 🙈 My personal theory is that it's the scrapped Eos Protocol badge, as it looks like it has a bronze border, indicating multiple tiers.
also pls let us buy it if it wont be used anymore pls let me give you money niantic
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What In tarnation is this badge
Let us buy it
I want this on my profile
Good job resurfacing this!
They can't even release the NL-1331 badge after saying it would come out digitally.... How are we getting this one?
I hate buying badges, All badges should be earned.
Outright payment for badge should be limited to anomaly packs, (you are on site, I think you earn it). And the occasional store badge.
All badges should be made available to all agents to choose whether they want to obtain it or not. Enough of this gatekeeping nonsense of limiting only to certain people based on geography.
Niantic will deliver. Just subscribe for a few more months.
Some people treat their badges like merit badges, and other people treat them like decorative artwork. It sounds like @SSSputnik is in the merit badge category, and @expediter is in the artwork category. Neither side is wrong, they just approach their badges differently.
I'm strongly in the merit badge camp, and while I will gleefully throw money at Ingress for just about any reason I won't pay for a badge unless I had to do something to earn it as well. Even a relatively small gate like "visit one unique portal this week" would probably get me to open my wallet.
It’s secretly the 12 month CORE subscriber badge. 🤫
The better question is why is GummyBear a L1 account when the pic shows it as L8 account?
Because it was just a montage pic nothing more
Hiya - I'm told this was an early/placeholder version of the C.O.R.E. medal and we decided not to use it.
That's bad. Because the fingerprint design is just so much better comparing to the lazy circles drawn in Paint.
That‘s a shame. Is it still in the files to be used again for another badge?
D: Please tell me Niantic still has the medal file
thats a shame, i still think the fingerprint badge could be used as a new verification method of some kind maybe..
agh, this one looks cooler though!
Maybe for 12 months subscription ?
Cuando salió la medalla yo creía que se podría obtener por la suscripción Core pero no, y al final esa medalla quedó en nada , entonces los que creímos que era la medalla de core quedamos así 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Niantic need to make a placeholder design, which looks quite decent?
But doesn't manage to make in general decent medals?, Looking at the New Year, winter, Halloween medal and so on...
A place holder can be just a blank image....
The fingerprint badge was so much better 😅
<cries in Dark XM badge>
So they finally used it in an event whoo 😎💪
https://www.ingress.com/news/eos-imprint-2022