# BEACON

> Register equipment, instruments, vehicles and inventory as plain-text ownership and recovery records inscribed on Dogecoin. Open protocol, no registrar, no subscription.

Site: https://beacon.hankelsner.tech
Author: Henry Elsner (Hank) III

Topics: asset register, serial number registry, equipment tracking, VIN, ownership record, Dogecoin, doginals, open protocol, BEACON

## What this is

Register equipment, instruments, vehicles and inventory as plain-text ownership and recovery records inscribed on Dogecoin. Open protocol, no registrar, no subscription.

## Pages

- [BEACON agent memory file](https://beacon.hankelsner.tech/agent.md): THE FILE TO READ FIRST if you are an AI agent: the complete BEACON/1 protocol written for a machine — record grammar, authority model, Dogecoin wire format, every HTTP endpoint, failure modes and worked call sequences.
- [Technicals](https://beacon.hankelsner.tech/technicals.html): Full engineering documentation: byte-level record grammar, the ord envelope, how to build/sign/broadcast a record with your own tools, the fold algorithm, the resolver API and conformance vectors.
- [BEACON/1 specification (Markdown)](https://beacon.hankelsner.tech/api/spec.md): The canonical protocol specification.
- [Vocabulary (JSON)](https://beacon.hankelsner.tech/api/profiles): Machine-readable profiles, six-line labels, status codes, identifier schemes and field limits. Fetch this instead of hard-coding.
- [Resolve a record (JSON)](https://beacon.hankelsner.tech/api/record/{txid}): The folded record for a Dogecoin reveal txid, with holder, authority set, update history and rejected updates.
- [Search (JSON)](https://beacon.hankelsner.tech/api/lookup?q={id}): Find records by microchip/serial number, name or txid prefix. Matching is on the normalised identifier.
- [Submit a txid (POST, JSON)](https://beacon.hankelsner.tech/api/index): Open and keyless: {"txid":"..."} asks this resolver to index a BEACON record inscribed by anyone, with any tool.
- [Find](https://beacon.hankelsner.tech/find.html): Search for a registered asset by serial number, VIN or name.
- [Register](https://beacon.hankelsner.tech/register.html): Compose and inscribe an asset record from your own wallet in the browser.
- [Protocol](https://beacon.hankelsner.tech/protocol.html): The specification rendered for a human reader.

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