diff --git a/src/components/verification/VerificationsDialog.tsx b/src/components/verification/VerificationsDialog.tsx
index d61823968..4f8edf4a8 100644
--- a/src/components/verification/VerificationsDialog.tsx
+++ b/src/components/verification/VerificationsDialog.tsx
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ export function VerificationsDialog({
         profile={profile}
         verificationState={verificationState}
       />
-      <Dialog.Close />
     </Dialog.Outer>
   )
 }
diff --git a/src/components/verification/VerifierDialog.tsx b/src/components/verification/VerifierDialog.tsx
index 01f7e4bd3..5a405dba0 100644
--- a/src/components/verification/VerifierDialog.tsx
+++ b/src/components/verification/VerifierDialog.tsx
@@ -151,8 +151,6 @@ function Inner({
           </Button>
         </View>
       </View>
-
-      <Dialog.Close />
     </Dialog.ScrollableInner>
   )
 }
diff --git a/src/screens/Profile/Header/DisplayName.tsx b/src/screens/Profile/Header/DisplayName.tsx
index b74c063d4..bed3425db 100644
--- a/src/screens/Profile/Header/DisplayName.tsx
+++ b/src/screens/Profile/Header/DisplayName.tsx
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import {View} from 'react-native'
-import {AppBskyActorDefs, ModerationDecision} from '@atproto/api'
+import {type AppBskyActorDefs, type ModerationDecision} from '@atproto/api'
 
 import {sanitizeDisplayName} from '#/lib/strings/display-names'
 import {sanitizeHandle} from '#/lib/strings/handles'
-import {Shadow} from '#/state/cache/types'
-import {atoms as a, useBreakpoints, useTheme} from '#/alf'
+import {type Shadow} from '#/state/cache/types'
+import {atoms as a, platform, useBreakpoints, useTheme} from '#/alf'
 import {Text} from '#/components/Typography'
+import {VerificationCheckButton} from '#/components/verification/VerificationCheckButton'
 
 export function ProfileHeaderDisplayName({
   profile,
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ export function ProfileHeaderDisplayName({
   const {gtMobile} = useBreakpoints()
 
   return (
-    <View pointerEvents="none">
+    <View>
       <Text
         emoji
         testID="profileHeaderDisplayName"
@@ -32,6 +33,15 @@ export function ProfileHeaderDisplayName({
           profile.displayName || sanitizeHandle(profile.handle),
           moderation.ui('displayName'),
         )}
+        <View
+          style={[
+            a.pl_xs,
+            {
+              marginTop: platform({ios: 2}),
+            },
+          ]}>
+          <VerificationCheckButton profile={profile} size="lg" />
+        </View>
       </Text>
     </View>
   )
diff --git a/src/state/queries/constellation.ts b/src/state/queries/constellation.ts
index 5117af8c5..e2909af7c 100644
--- a/src/state/queries/constellation.ts
+++ b/src/state/queries/constellation.ts
@@ -28,12 +28,17 @@ const headers = new Headers({
 const makeReqUrl = (
   instance: string,
   route: string,
-  params: Record<string, string>,
+  params: Record<string, string | string[]>,
 ) => {
   const url = new URL(instance)
   url.pathname = route
   for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(params)) {
-    url.searchParams.set(k, v)
+    // NOTE: in the future this should probably be a repeated param...
+    if (Array.isArray(v)) {
+      url.searchParams.set(k, v.join(','))
+    } else {
+      url.searchParams.set(k, v)
+    }
   }
   return url
 }
@@ -46,6 +51,7 @@ export async function* constellationLinks(
     target: string
     collection: Collection
     path: string
+    from_dids?: string[]
   },
 ) {
   const url = makeReqUrl(instance, 'links', params)
diff --git a/src/state/queries/deer-verification.ts b/src/state/queries/deer-verification.ts
index 0975441d7..ac98065a1 100644
--- a/src/state/queries/deer-verification.ts
+++ b/src/state/queries/deer-verification.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ import {
   asyncGenCollect,
   asyncGenDedupe,
   asyncGenFilter,
-  asyncGenTake,
   asyncGenTryMap,
   type ConstellationLink,
   constellationLinks,
@@ -49,17 +48,12 @@ export function getTrustedConstellationVerifications(
   trusted: Set<string>,
 ) {
   const urip = new AtUri(did)
-  const verificationLinks = asyncGenTake(
-    constellationLinks(instance, {
-      target: urip.host,
-      collection: 'app.bsky.graph.verification',
-      path: '.subject',
-      // TODO: remove this when constellation supports filtering
-      // without a max here, a malicious user could create thousands of verification records and hang a client
-      // since we can't filter to only trusted verifiers before searching for backlinks yet
-    }),
-    100,
-  )
+  const verificationLinks = constellationLinks(instance, {
+    target: urip.host,
+    collection: 'app.bsky.graph.verification',
+    path: '.subject',
+    from_dids: Array.from(trusted),
+  })
   return asyncGenDedupe(
     asyncGenFilter(verificationLinks, ({did}) => trusted.has(did)),
     ({did}) => did,