Overview

• Bluesky has launched a multi-page application form for users seeking blue check verification, focusing on active, secure, authentic, and notable accounts.
• The platform is expanding its Trusted Verifier program, allowing organizations to verify other users with specialized tools.
• Over 270,000 accounts have already adopted domain-based self-verification, a decentralized alternative to traditional verification.
• Verification criteria remain flexible and will evolve based on user feedback, with no guarantee of approval even if basic conditions are met.
• Bluesky's verification rollout highlights tensions between decentralization and the introduction of hierarchical status markers like blue badges.