Network Profiles

A DID is an identifier. A profile is what makes it a participant on the LearnCard Network: a profileId others can address, a display name and image recipients see, and a did:web the network resolves for you. You need a profile before you can send, receive, or connect.

Three kinds

Profile	Represents	Created with	Key held by
Regular	A person using the LearnCard app or your app	Sign-up in the app, or createProfile()	The person
Service	Your server, bot, or organization — anything that issues programmatically	createServiceProfile(); the Quickstart does this	You (a seed or a hosted signing authority)
Managed	An account someone else administers: a child's account, a department, a troop	createManagedProfile() / createManagedServiceProfile()	The network, on behalf of the manager

Regular and Service profiles are the same data model with isServiceProfile flipped; the flag mostly affects how the app displays them and which features (like the Developer Portal) they can use.

A Managed profile has no seed of its own. The network generates its DID and lets the manager — a Regular or Service profile — act for it. That's how a guardian approves credentials for a child, and how ScoutPass runs a national organization → troop → scout hierarchy where each level is a managed profile under the one above.

What a profile gives you

• An address. send({ recipient: 'acme' }) works once acme is a profileId. Email and phone recipients don't need one yet — the Universal Inbox holds the credential until they create one.

• A did:web. did:web:network.learncard.com:users:<profileId> resolves through the network, so you can rotate keys or move signing to a hosted authority without changing your issuer identity.

• A face. The displayName and image are what recipients see in the claim email and in their LearnCard.

• Connections. Profiles can connect to each other, which unlocks direct sends without a claim step.

Per network

Profiles live on one network. Your staging profile and your production profile are different records, even from the same seed — see Test Safely.