diff --git a/velocity/build.gradle.kts b/velocity/build.gradle.kts
index 79b35f5..e43564c 100644
--- a/velocity/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/velocity/build.gradle.kts
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ dependencies {
     // compileOnly above is not visible to tests; PlayerSessionQueryImplTest needs the interface's
     // types.
     testImplementation("gg.grounds:plugin-proxy-api:0.5.0")
+    // Same reason: the conventions plugin puts velocity-api on compileOnly, and
+    // EditionStampListenerTest builds a GameProfile.Property.
+    testImplementation("com.velocitypowered:velocity-api:3.5.0-SNAPSHOT")
     testImplementation("org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.13.4")
     testRuntimeOnly("org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.13.4")
     testRuntimeOnly("org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher:1.13.4")
diff --git a/velocity/src/main/kotlin/gg/grounds/GroundsPluginPlayer.kt b/velocity/src/main/kotlin/gg/grounds/GroundsPluginPlayer.kt
index 8de73ae..f10faad 100644
--- a/velocity/src/main/kotlin/gg/grounds/GroundsPluginPlayer.kt
+++ b/velocity/src/main/kotlin/gg/grounds/GroundsPluginPlayer.kt
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import com.velocitypowered.api.plugin.annotation.DataDirectory
 import com.velocitypowered.api.proxy.ProxyServer
 import gg.grounds.config.MessagesConfig
 import gg.grounds.config.MessagesConfigLoader
+import gg.grounds.edition.FloodgateLookup
+import gg.grounds.edition.listener.EditionStampListener
 import gg.grounds.link.ForgeLinkClient
 import gg.grounds.link.LinkCommand
 import gg.grounds.listener.PlayerConnectionListener
@@ -92,11 +94,34 @@ constructor(
         )
 
         registerLinkCommands(messages)
+        registerEditionStamp()
 
         heartbeatScheduler.start()
         logger.info("Configured player presence client (serviceUrl={})", serviceUrl)
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Tells backends which of their players came from Bedrock, by stamping a property onto the
+     * signed part of the forwarding payload.
+     *
+     * Only the Bedrock proxy carries Floodgate, so on the Java proxies there is nothing to ask and
+     * the listener is not registered at all — rather than registered and answering "Java" for
+     * everyone, which is the same outcome for more moving parts.
+     */
+    private fun registerEditionStamp() {
+        val floodgate = FloodgateLookup.create(logger)
+        if (floodgate == null) {
+            logger.debug("Floodgate not installed; backends see no edition marker from this proxy")
+            return
+        }
+        proxy.eventManager.register(this, EditionStampListener(floodgate, logger))
+        logger.info(
+            "Marking Bedrock players for backends ({}={})",
+            EditionStampListener.PROPERTY,
+            EditionStampListener.BEDROCK,
+        )
+    }
+
     /**
      * /link + /unlink talk to forge over HTTP, which needs the platform context forge injects into
      * pushed workloads. Outside that context (a bare local proxy, say) the env vars are absent —
diff --git a/velocity/src/main/kotlin/gg/grounds/edition/FloodgateLookup.kt b/velocity/src/main/kotlin/gg/grounds/edition/FloodgateLookup.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13a88f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/velocity/src/main/kotlin/gg/grounds/edition/FloodgateLookup.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+package gg.grounds.edition
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Method
+import java.util.UUID
+import org.slf4j.Logger
+
+/**
+ * Asks Floodgate whether a player came from Bedrock, without depending on Floodgate.
+ *
+ * Only one of the three proxies carries Floodgate — the Bedrock one — so a compile-time dependency
+ * would put a class on the other two that can never resolve. Floodgate also publishes its API as a
+ * moving `-SNAPSHOT` and nothing else, which is not a version this repo can pin. Reflection over
+ * one method costs less than either, and `library-gui` already avoids the same dependency for the
+ * same reason.
+ *
+ * [create] returns null when Floodgate is not installed, which is the ordinary state of the Java
+ * proxies rather than an error worth logging loudly.
+ *
+ * **Why not just look at the UUID.** Floodgate builds an unlinked Bedrock player's UUID as `new
+ * UUID(0, xuid)`, so the shape alone answers for them — which is what backends do today. It does
+ * not answer for a player who has **linked** a Java account: they arrive under the linked account's
+ * Mojang UUID and are shaped like anyone else. `isFloodgatePlayer` covers both, because it resolves
+ * through `getPlayer(uuid)`, which falls back to scanning for a player whose `getCorrectUniqueId()`
+ * matches. Confirmed in the bytecode of the build the network ships (`containers/plugin-floodgate`,
+ * Floodgate 2.2.5 build 140), where that build also defaults to `enable-global-linking: true` — and
+ * a global link is one the player may have made on any Geyser server, so linked players are not a
+ * rare case.
+ */
+class FloodgateLookup
+private constructor(
+    private val logger: Logger,
+    private val getInstance: Method,
+    private val isFloodgatePlayer: Method,
+) {
+
+    @Volatile private var failed = false
+
+    /**
+     * Whether Floodgate knows this player as a Bedrock player.
+     *
+     * Answers false on any failure, and the direction is deliberate: false means "treat as Java",
+     * which downstream means "keep checking them". The opposite default would let a Floodgate
+     * hiccup quietly exempt players from anti-cheat.
+     */
+    fun isBedrock(playerId: UUID): Boolean {
+        if (failed) return false
+        return try {
+            // Resolved per call rather than cached: Floodgate's singleton is not guaranteed to
+            // exist when this proxy wires its listeners, only by the time a player logs in.
+            val api = getInstance.invoke(null) ?: return false
+            isFloodgatePlayer.invoke(api, playerId) as Boolean
+        } catch (e: ReflectiveOperationException) {
+            // Once, not per login: a broken API would otherwise write a line for every player who
+            // ever joins.
+            failed = true
+            logger.warn("Floodgate lookup failed; treating every player as Java from here on", e)
+            false
+        }
+    }
+
+    companion object {
+        private const val API = "org.geysermc.floodgate.api.FloodgateApi"
+
+        /** Null when Floodgate is not installed on this proxy. */
+        fun create(logger: Logger): FloodgateLookup? =
+            try {
+                val api = Class.forName(API)
+                FloodgateLookup(
+                    logger,
+                    api.getMethod("getInstance"),
+                    api.getMethod("isFloodgatePlayer", UUID::class.java),
+                )
+            } catch (e: ClassNotFoundException) {
+                null
+            } catch (e: NoSuchMethodException) {
+                // Floodgate is here but is not the API this expects. Say so: a silent null would
+                // hide a version skew until someone wondered why Bedrock players were being
+                // flagged by anti-cheat.
+                logger.warn("Floodgate is installed but {} is not the expected shape", API, e)
+                null
+            }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/velocity/src/main/kotlin/gg/grounds/edition/listener/EditionStampListener.kt b/velocity/src/main/kotlin/gg/grounds/edition/listener/EditionStampListener.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ba2390
--- /dev/null
+++ b/velocity/src/main/kotlin/gg/grounds/edition/listener/EditionStampListener.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+package gg.grounds.edition.listener
+
+import com.velocitypowered.api.event.Subscribe
+import com.velocitypowered.api.event.connection.PostLoginEvent
+import com.velocitypowered.api.proxy.Player
+import com.velocitypowered.api.util.GameProfile
+import gg.grounds.edition.FloodgateLookup
+import org.slf4j.Logger
+
+/**
+ * Marks a Bedrock player's game profile so the backend can tell.
+ *
+ * Nothing downstream of this proxy otherwise knows. Geyser terminates the Bedrock session and
+ * connects here as an ordinary Java client, and Velocity's modern forwarding carries a UUID, a
+ * username, skin properties and an address — no edition. Backends make do with the shape of the
+ * Floodgate UUID (`mostSignificantBits == 0`), which is right for unlinked players and silently
+ * wrong for linked ones, who arrive under their Mojang UUID.
+ *
+ * A game profile property is the carrier because the forwarding payload signs it. Velocity HMACs
+ * `(version, address, uuid, name, properties, key)` with the forwarding secret, and the properties
+ * list is the one extensible part of it — so a backend that trusts the payload at all can trust
+ * this. That matters more than convenience here: the flag turns anti-cheat *off*, so a marker the
+ * client could set would be a self-exemption for any modified Java client. It is why the client
+ * brand is not used, despite Geyser announcing itself as `Geyser` in it.
+ *
+ * **Timing.** `PostLoginEvent` fires after login and before the player is sent to a backend, so the
+ * property is in the profile by the time Velocity builds any forwarding payload — including on
+ * every later server switch, which rebuilds it from the same profile.
+ *
+ * **Ordering.** Floodgate's own skin applier also rewrites the property list, but it copies the
+ * list and removes only `textures`, so it cannot drop this one whichever way round the two run.
+ *
+ * Registered only when Floodgate is installed, which in practice means only on the Bedrock proxy.
+ */
+class EditionStampListener(private val floodgate: FloodgateLookup, private val logger: Logger) {
+
+    @Subscribe
+    fun onPostLogin(event: PostLoginEvent) {
+        stamp(event.player)
+    }
+
+    private fun stamp(player: Player) {
+        if (!floodgate.isBedrock(player.uniqueId)) return
+
+        val updated = withEditionProperty(player.gameProfileProperties) ?: return
+        player.gameProfileProperties = updated
+        logger.debug("Marked {} as a Bedrock player ({}={})", player.username, PROPERTY, BEDROCK)
+    }
+
+    companion object {
+        /**
+         * Namespaced because it rides in a list Mojang also writes to — `textures` is theirs.
+         *
+         * Backends match on the name and treat any other value, or its absence, as Java.
+         */
+        const val PROPERTY = "grounds:edition"
+
+        /** The only value written today. A Java player carries no property rather than a value. */
+        const val BEDROCK = "bedrock"
+
+        /**
+         * The property list to write, or null when [existing] already carries the marker.
+         *
+         * A profile is per connection, so the marker should never already be there — but stamping
+         * twice would put two of them on the wire, and a backend that read the first would be right
+         * only by luck.
+         *
+         * Appends rather than replaces: the list is where Mojang's `textures` lives, and dropping
+         * that would take the player's skin with it.
+         */
+        fun withEditionProperty(existing: List<GameProfile.Property>): List<GameProfile.Property>? =
+            if (existing.any { it.name == PROPERTY }) null
+            else existing + GameProfile.Property(PROPERTY, BEDROCK, "")
+    }
+}
diff --git a/velocity/src/test/kotlin/gg/grounds/edition/EditionStampListenerTest.kt b/velocity/src/test/kotlin/gg/grounds/edition/EditionStampListenerTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b06dc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/velocity/src/test/kotlin/gg/grounds/edition/EditionStampListenerTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package gg.grounds.edition
+
+import com.velocitypowered.api.util.GameProfile
+import gg.grounds.edition.listener.EditionStampListener
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test
+import org.slf4j.helpers.NOPLogger
+
+class EditionStampListenerTest {
+
+    private fun textures() = GameProfile.Property("textures", "skin-payload", "skin-signature")
+
+    @Test
+    fun marksAProfileThatCarriesNothingYet() {
+        val stamped = EditionStampListener.withEditionProperty(emptyList())
+
+        assertNotNull(stamped)
+        assertEquals(1, stamped!!.size)
+        assertEquals(EditionStampListener.PROPERTY, stamped[0].name)
+        assertEquals(EditionStampListener.BEDROCK, stamped[0].value)
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The skin is the reason this appends rather than replaces. Floodgate uploads a Bedrock
+     * player's skin and puts it here, so a stamp that rebuilt the list would leave them skinless.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun keepsTheSkinTheProfileAlreadyHad() {
+        val stamped = EditionStampListener.withEditionProperty(listOf(textures()))
+
+        assertNotNull(stamped)
+        assertEquals(listOf("textures", EditionStampListener.PROPERTY), stamped!!.map { it.name })
+        assertEquals("skin-payload", stamped[0].value)
+        assertEquals("skin-signature", stamped[0].signature)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun doesNothingWhenTheMarkerIsAlreadyThere() {
+        val already =
+            listOf(
+                textures(),
+                GameProfile.Property(
+                    EditionStampListener.PROPERTY,
+                    EditionStampListener.BEDROCK,
+                    "",
+                ),
+            )
+
+        assertNull(
+            EditionStampListener.withEditionProperty(already),
+            "a second stamp would put two markers on the wire",
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Two of the three proxies have no Floodgate, and that is the ordinary case rather than a
+     * misconfiguration — the listener is simply not registered there.
+     */
+    @Test
+    fun theLookupIsAbsentWithoutFloodgate() {
+        assertNull(FloodgateLookup.create(NOPLogger.NOP_LOGGER))
+    }
+}