Prestige shows up on your profile
Tridents are the rare currency. You earn them for world firsts, for records and for placing well in a season, and the lifetime total becomes prestige stars, one to five. Until today those stars were visible in exactly one place: the prestige section on the ranks page, at a size you had to squint at. Your own profile showed a trident balance chip, but only to you, and nobody else could see any of it.
So a player with four prestige stars looked exactly like a player who had just signed up. That's the opposite of what prestige is for.
What changed
A chip next to your rank. If you have at least one prestige star, a small gold chip now sits next to your rank title on your public profile. It shows your stars and links to the ranks page, where the rules are written out. With no stars yet, there's no chip. An empty row of outlines next to someone's name reads like a failing grade, and we don't want to hand anyone that.
A Prestige card in Career. Under your rank progress there's now a proper card. The stars are drawn large, earned ones lit and the rest as outlines, so you can see at a glance how far along the ladder you are. Underneath it says how many tridents you've earned in total, how many you still need for the next star, and a bar for the distance. If you've earned all five, it says so.
Your balance stays yours. The card shows lifetime tridents, which were already public on the prestige leaderboard. How many you have left to spend is still private. When you look at your own profile, the card adds one extra line with your current balance and a link to the Trident Exchange. Visitors don't see that line.
Why lifetime and not balance
Spending tridents on a frame or a title shouldn't cost you prestige. Stars are counted from everything you have ever earned, so buying something in the Exchange never takes a star away. That was already how the stars worked on the ranks page. The profile now just shows it.
If you don't have any tridents yet, nothing about your profile changes. The first world first you catch, or the first time you finish a season near the top, the card appears on its own.
The rules for earning tridents and the star thresholds are on the ranks page. The Exchange, where you spend them, is at /my/exchange.