Your pet’s chip number, somewhere nobody can lose it.
A microchip is only a number. It means something because a company keeps a row in a database — and when that company fails, every chip it registered quietly stops resolving. Write the record on Dogecoin instead. It costs pennies once, and it never expires.
Why this exists
A pet microchip registry goes bankrupt. The chips in all those animals keep working perfectly — a chip is only a number, and the number is still there. What stops working is the lookup: that company's database was the only thing turning the number back into a person who could be phoned.
Owners are told to re-register somewhere else. Most do, eventually. But between the day the registry goes dark and the day each owner gets around to it, every scanned chip comes back empty. A shelter scans a frightened dog, gets a number, types it in, and finds nothing. The chip is fine. The pointer is dangling.
The fix is not a better company. It is not needing one. Write the number and the way to reach you somewhere that nobody owns and nobody can switch off, in a format so simple that a stranger in twenty years can read it without asking permission from anyone.
That is all this is. Your pet's chip number, a name, and six lines a finder would actually need — written as plain text into the Dogecoin blockchain. It does not expire. There is no subscription. If this website disappears tomorrow, your record does not.
What a record looks like
Six lines of information, an identifier, and a name. Plain text — no app needed to read it, and nothing to renew.
BEACON/1 T:PET ID:ISO11784:985141001234567 N:Biscuit 1:Beagle mix, 24 lb, tan and white 2:White blaze, notched left ear, red collar with a bell 3:H. Elsner 4:+1-650-649-4265 5:San Jose, CA 6:Diabetic, needs insulin twice daily. Reward for safe return. S:ACTIVE
That is the whole format. It is written into a Dogecoin inscription exactly as you see it, and it stays readable whether or not this website is still here. Read the protocol →
1 · Write it once
Enter the chip number, your pet’s name, and six lines a finder would need. It is inscribed on Dogecoin from your own wallet, once, for a few cents.
2 · Update it when things change
Lost? Inscribe an update marking them missing, with where they were last seen. Home again? Update it back. Every version stays on the record.
3 · Anyone can read it
A shelter, a vet or a neighbour can look up the chip number and see how to reach you — with no account, no app, and no permission from us.
Built for pets. It turns out to work on everything.
This was written to keep a lost animal findable — that is the whole motive, and the record was designed around what a stranger holding a frightened dog actually needs to know. Getting that right meant writing the format generically, so a serial number and a microchip number are the same problem to it. The byproduct is that the identical protocol registers equipment, instruments, vehicles and inventory under professional terminology at beacon.hankelsner.tech →
Same bytes, same chain, same rules — a different vocabulary over the same six lines. The full engineering document, and how to use the protocol entirely without us, is on the Technicals page.