I was thinking about badges vs Poaps as I had immediately related the two.. but there are some differences that are worth mentioning:

- badges is a protocol. it's not owned by anybody .. there is a badges.page but that has no control.. you can create with other clients any badge and that's fine

- are permissionless... as anybody can create a badge

- are non transferrable. it's not a token.. it's something that the owner signed as sent to you so you can't change that and you can't transfer to someone else as that wouldn't contain the creator's valid signature..