diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5561f6d7b1..77bcd93020 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "silk"
+description = "A silky smooth implementation of the Loom architecture"
 version = "0.1.0"
 authors = [
     "Anatoly Yakovenko <aeyakovenko@gmail.com>",
@@ -7,6 +8,9 @@ authors = [
 ]
 license = "APACHE-2.0"
 
+[badges]
+codecov = { repository = "https://github.com/loomprotocol/silk.git", branch = "master", service = "github" }
+
 [features]
 unstable = []