---
title: "What's Public on PD"
description: "Everything on PD anyone can see, feature by feature: the on-chain record, your profile and its surfaces, market activity, the social graph, presence, the war record, and the leaderboards."
category: "public-private"
keywords: ["public", "privacy", "transparency", "on-chain", "profile", "visibility"]
last_updated: "2026-10-12"
---

# What's Public on PD

PD is a public-by-default social layer over a public blockchain. The honest framing: **if it lives on-chain or on a profile, assume the whole world can see it.** This page is the complete map of what that means, feature by feature; its mirror is [What's Private](/docs/whats-private) — a much shorter page, on purpose.

## The on-chain record — public forever

Ethereum is a public ledger, and PD adds nothing that hides it:

- Every **mint, sale, transfer, and offer**, with prices, parties, and timestamps.
- **Who holds what, and for how long** — the full custody chain of every Output, readable from standard `Transfer` events by anyone, with or without PD.
- **All money mechanics** — royalty splits, pending balances, and every payout on the [Project](/docs/contracts/pd-project) and [splitter](/docs/contracts/payment-splitter) contracts.

## Your profile — the public you

Everything on a profile page is public to every visitor:

- Your **@name**, **PriceSprite**, and **PriceRank / PriceScore / PriceStreak**.
- Your **Collected** holdings, **Portfolio**, and **trade record** — these mirror the chain, which already tells this story.
- Your **Showcase** (all four engine modes) and your **Achievements** wall.
- Your **sticker hero** — the arrangement you compose is precisely what visitors see. (Which sheets you own beyond what you display stays your business; the [Binder](/docs/stickers/the-binder-and-your-profile) is your own view.)
- Your **[Vault](/docs/app/identity-and-profiles)** (⚿) — the numbered walls of owned Outputs you designate as vaulted, stats block included.
- Your **faction allegiance and oath history** — the flag you fly, your time under it, and any defection scar. Your forged **Sigil** trails your @name everywhere. See [Factions](/docs/factions).
- **Takeover verdicts** — casting one banners both profiles for its 72 hours, and the outcome (COMPLETED / PARTIAL / WITHSTOOD) is inscribed on the record. WITHSTOOD is worn for 180 days.
- **Albums** — public shelves. Anyone can see an album and who made it: your profile, the artwork's Albums tab, and every Project page whose work you've shelved, where the tile carries your @name over the album number. Albums are numbered, never named — the art is the only thing they say. See [Albums](/docs/albums).

## Social and market

- **Followers and following** — the social graph is readable in both directions, and relationship glyphs (⚭ ⚯ ⚬) annotate names across the app.
- **Listings, offers, and sales** — the discussion itself. Your market actions run through [the Tape](/docs/app/the-shell), the feeds, and other collectors' [Pings](/docs/pings/overview) with your @name attached.
- **The Marginalia** — every artwork's margin records every hand that ever held it, permanently: sales in deep ink, private transfers faint. Anyone who performs the ceremony can read an Output's hands. They can sell, but they can't unsign you.
- **Presence** — while you're on a Project page, [the Audience](/docs/app/projects-and-minting) shows a breathing dot for you (signed-out visitors read as anonymous dots). The [Deactivate spell](/docs/app/spell-book) is the one-way glass: stop broadcasting, keep seeing.

## Standings and the record

- **Leaderboards** and podium finishes (❶❷❸) across the boards.
- **The Book of Conquests** — the war's permanent chronicle: sieges, conquests, strongholds, relics, and struck stones, dated forever.
- **The Dispatch** — a public daily paper assembled from the same ledger; if your sale was yesterday's biggest, it's in print, permanently, at a citable URL.
- **Fair Draw records** — every drop that reaches its lock publishes its entry list, on its record page and on Arweave: each entrant's wallet and standing (pieces held, spend on PD mints, start date on PD), losing and voided entries included. To keep start dates honest, every account's wallet and the day it joined PD are written to Arweave too, permanently. See [How a Drop Settles](/docs/fair-draw/how-a-drop-settles#check-it-yourself).

## The design position

Outside the Fair Draw records above, PD never publishes anything the chain doesn't already imply about your wallet — it *interprets* the public record and attaches the identity you chose to build on it. The things that are genuinely yours alone are listed, exhaustively, in [What's Private](/docs/whats-private).