diff --git a/Sources/ActorSingletonPlugin/ActorSingletonProxy.swift b/Sources/ActorSingletonPlugin/ActorSingletonProxy.swift
index 4a301d817..fd1e79f93 100644
--- a/Sources/ActorSingletonPlugin/ActorSingletonProxy.swift
+++ b/Sources/ActorSingletonPlugin/ActorSingletonProxy.swift
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ internal distributed actor ActorSingletonProxy<Act: ClusterSingletonProtocol>: A
 
     private func updateTargetNode(node: UniqueNode?) async throws {
         guard self.targetNode != node else {
-            self.log.debug("Skip updating target node. New node is already the same as current targetNode.", metadata: self.metadata())
+            self.log.trace("Skip updating target node. New node is already the same as current targetNode.", metadata: self.metadata())
             return
         }
 
diff --git a/Sources/DistributedActors/ActorID.swift b/Sources/DistributedActors/ActorID.swift
index 6ebef0351..a0f131ac5 100644
--- a/Sources/DistributedActors/ActorID.swift
+++ b/Sources/DistributedActors/ActorID.swift
@@ -952,15 +952,25 @@ extension ActorID: Codable {
             var metadataContainer = container.nestedContainer(keyedBy: ActorCoding.MetadataKeys.self, forKey: ActorCoding.CodingKeys.metadata)
 
             let keys = ActorMetadataKeys.__instance
-            if (metadataSettings == nil || metadataSettings!.propagateMetadata.contains(keys.path.id)),
-               let value = self.metadata.path
-            {
+            func shouldPropagate<V: Sendable &  Codable>(_ key: ActorMetadataKey<V>, metadata: ActorMetadata) -> V? {
+                if metadataSettings == nil || metadataSettings!.propagateMetadata.contains(key.id) {
+                    if let value = metadata[key.id] {
+                        let value = value as! V // as!-safe, the keys guarantee we only store well typed values in metadata
+                        return value
+                    }
+                }
+                return nil
+            }
+            
+            // Handle well known metadata types
+            if let value = shouldPropagate(keys.path, metadata: self.metadata) {
                 try metadataContainer.encode(value, forKey: ActorCoding.MetadataKeys.path)
             }
-            if (metadataSettings == nil || metadataSettings!.propagateMetadata.contains(keys.type.id)),
-               let value = self.metadata.type
-            {
-                try metadataContainer.encode(value, forKey: ActorCoding.MetadataKeys.type)
+            if let value = shouldPropagate(keys.type, metadata: self.metadata) {
+                try metadataContainer.encode(value.mangledName, forKey: ActorCoding.MetadataKeys.type)
+            }
+            if let value = shouldPropagate(keys.wellKnown, metadata: self.metadata) {
+                try metadataContainer.encode(value, forKey: ActorCoding.MetadataKeys.wellKnown)
             }
 
             try encodeCustomMetadata(self.metadata, &metadataContainer)
@@ -979,8 +989,17 @@ extension ActorID: Codable {
         if let metadataContainer = try? container.nestedContainer(keyedBy: ActorCoding.MetadataKeys.self, forKey: ActorCoding.CodingKeys.metadata) {
             // tags container found, try to decode all known tags:
 
-            // FIXME: implement decoding tags/metadata in general
-
+            let metadata = ActorMetadata()
+            if let value = try? metadataContainer.decodeIfPresent(ActorPath.self, forKey: ActorCoding.MetadataKeys.path) {
+                metadata.path = value
+            }
+            if let value = try? metadataContainer.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: ActorCoding.MetadataKeys.type) {
+                metadata.type = .init(mangledName: value)
+            }
+            if let value = try? metadataContainer.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: ActorCoding.MetadataKeys.wellKnown) {
+                metadata.wellKnown = value
+            }
+            
             if let context = decoder.actorSerializationContext {
                 let decodeCustomMetadata = context.system.settings.actorMetadata.decodeCustomMetadata
                 try decodeCustomMetadata(metadataContainer, self.metadata)
@@ -994,6 +1013,8 @@ extension ActorID: Codable {
 //                    _openExistential(key, do: store) // the `as` here is required, because: inferred result type 'any ActorTagKey.Type' requires explicit coercion due to loss of generic requirements
 //                }
             }
+            
+            self.context = .init(lifecycle: nil, remoteCallInterceptor: nil, metadata: metadata)
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/Sources/DistributedActors/Serialization/ActorRef+Serialization.swift b/Sources/DistributedActors/Serialization/ActorRef+Serialization.swift
index 763c93f09..8cc91b299 100644
--- a/Sources/DistributedActors/Serialization/ActorRef+Serialization.swift
+++ b/Sources/DistributedActors/Serialization/ActorRef+Serialization.swift
@@ -32,12 +32,14 @@ public enum ActorCoding {
     public enum MetadataKeys: CodingKey {
         case path
         case type
+        case wellKnown
         case custom(String)
 
         public init?(stringValue: String) {
             switch stringValue {
             case "path": self = .path
             case "type": self = .type
+            case "wellKnown": self = .wellKnown
             default: self = .custom(stringValue)
             }
         }
@@ -46,7 +48,8 @@ public enum ActorCoding {
             switch self {
             case .path: return 0
             case .type: return 1
-            case .custom: return 2
+            case .wellKnown: return 2
+            case .custom: return 64
             }
         }
 
@@ -58,6 +61,7 @@ public enum ActorCoding {
             switch self {
             case .path: return "path"
             case .type: return "type"
+            case .wellKnown: return "wellKnown"
             case .custom(let id): return id
             }
         }
diff --git a/Tests/DistributedActorsTests/ActorIDMetadataTests.swift b/Tests/DistributedActorsTests/ActorIDMetadataTests.swift
index d4ec8f446..121eb7300 100644
--- a/Tests/DistributedActorsTests/ActorIDMetadataTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/DistributedActorsTests/ActorIDMetadataTests.swift
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ public protocol ExampleClusterSingletonProtocol: DistributedActor {
 distributed actor ThereCanBeOnlyOneClusterSingleton: ExampleClusterSingletonProtocol {
     typealias ActorSystem = ClusterSystem
 
+    @ActorID.Metadata(\.wellKnown)
+    public var wellKnownName: String
+    
     @ActorID.Metadata(\.exampleClusterSingletonID)
     public var singletonID: String
     // TODO(swift): impossible to assign initial value here, as _enclosingInstance is not available yet "the-one"
@@ -39,6 +42,7 @@ distributed actor ThereCanBeOnlyOneClusterSingleton: ExampleClusterSingletonProt
     init(actorSystem: ActorSystem) async {
         self.actorSystem = actorSystem
         self.singletonID = "the-boss"
+        self.wellKnownName = "boss-singleton"
     }
 }
 
@@ -79,11 +83,23 @@ final class ActorIDMetadataTests: ClusteredActorSystemsXCTestCase {
         "\(example)".shouldContain("\"user-id\": \"user-1234\"")
         try await example.assertThat(userID: userID)
     }
-
+    
     func test_metadata_initializedInline() async throws {
         let system = await setUpNode("first")
         let singleton = await ThereCanBeOnlyOneClusterSingleton(actorSystem: system)
 
         singleton.metadata.exampleClusterSingletonID.shouldEqual("the-boss")
     }
+    
+    func test_metadata_wellKnown_serialized() async throws {
+        let system = await setUpNode("first")
+        let singleton = await ThereCanBeOnlyOneClusterSingleton(actorSystem: system)
+
+        let encoded = try JSONEncoder().encode(singleton)
+        let encodedString = String(data: encoded, encoding: .utf8)!
+        encodedString.shouldContain("\"wellKnown\":\"boss-singleton\"")
+        
+        let back = try! JSONDecoder().decode(ActorID.self, from: encoded)
+        back.metadata.wellKnown.shouldEqual("boss-singleton")
+    }
 }