Handles

Your @name on Vision. Get paid with it instead of a wallet address, pay someone the same way, and what the verified mark does and does not mean.

A handle is your name on Vision, like @dan. Someone can pay you with it instead of a wallet address, and you can pay them the same way. It is not really a username: it resolves to a wallet, so getting it wrong sends money to the wrong person. Everything below follows from that. A handle is permanent. You choose it once. It can never be changed, released, or given to anyone else, by you or by us, and it is never reissued if you close your account.

That is deliberate: people save handles the way they save phone numbers, and a name that could quietly change hands is a name that eventually pays a stranger. Claiming yours Open Settings and claim one under your name. Three to twenty characters, letters, numbers and underscores. Vision tells you whether it is free before you commit, and asks you to confirm, because this is the one setting you cannot come back and edit later.

Handles are not case sensitive. @Dan and @dan are the same person, and yours is stored and shown in lower case. Getting paid Once you have one, give it out instead of an address. Your handle is shown in Add funds alongside your Solana and Ethereum addresses. Only from another Vision user. A handle works when someone with a Vision account sends to you. An exchange cannot look one up, so to withdraw from an exchange you still paste one of your addresses.

Both are on the same screen. Paying someone Say it the way you would say it out loud: Send $20 to @dan Send @dan 0.1 SOL You are never asked which chain. Their Vision wallet reads every chain Vision supports into one balance, so there is nothing to choose. Vision works out where the money should come from and where it should land, and shows you the preview card before anything moves, the same as any other send.

Typing @ in the message box opens your address book and any handle you have saved. Picking a contact inserts their name; picking a handle keeps the @, because in a message those two mean different things. Saving someone by handle In Contacts, put their handle in the wallet field instead of an address. Vision shows you who it belongs to, and pressing their name fills in the rest: their display name, their photo and both of their wallets.

Change the name to whatever you call them and save. The contact keeps the handle, not just the addresses, so it points at the person rather than at a wallet they were using on the day you saved them. See Contacts. The verified mark A small orange Vision triangle beside somebody's name means we have checked who they are. It is granted by us, never claimed, and it is rare on purpose, for the Vision team and for partners.

No mark is the normal case. Almost nobody has one, so the absence of a mark says nothing at all about somebody. It is not a rating and not a reputation score. Its only job is to let you tell a real Vision account from a name that looks like one, and if we ever handed it to everyone with a handle it would stop doing that job. People pretending to be someone else Two things make impersonation harder, and neither of them removes the need to check who you are paying.

Lookalikes cannot be claimed. Characters that read alike are treated as the same character, so if @vision exists then @v1si0n cannot be claimed by anybody. The same fold covers the whole alphabet of near-misses, not a list of known tricks. Vision's own names are held. Anything containing vision is reserved, so nobody can claim @visionsupport or @visionwallet and use it to sound official. It is a fair trade that a few ordinary words are caught by that rule too.

Vision will never message you first asking for money, and there is no Vision support account that will DM you. See the safety model. Why typing part of a name finds nothing Only an exact handle resolves. Typing @da deliberately offers no suggestions, because a search that completes handles as you type is a directory of everyone who uses Vision, and that is not something we are willing to publish about our own users.

You need to know somebody's handle before you can pay them, which is the same as knowing their address, only shorter. What is public Exactly three things: your handle, your display name and your photo. Nothing else on your profile is visible to anyone else, and your handle does not reveal your balances, your trades or your history.