Every pet, a sovereign handle.

Today an animal's identity is fragmented across a microchip number, a vet's database, a breeder's paper book, and a shelter's spreadsheet — and 90% of it evaporates the first time they change owners. Hylaq Pet makes the pet itself the durable identity. Vet records, lineage, training, microchip, and insurance all travel with the animal forever.

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The paradigm break

The cleanest way to model a pet is @owner/petname — a sub-handle of the current owner, the same pattern Compute Mesh uses for @owner/device-XX. The pet's name (the right side) and a durable internal id persist forever. Only the parent (the left side) changes when ownership transfers.

That's the architectural payoff. When Titan gets adopted, inherited, or rehomed, his vet history, microchip, breeder lineage, behavior notes, and insurance pool membership all come with him. Today they don't. Today every owner starts at zero.

What we replace

Microchip databases (Found Animals, AKC Reunite, HomeAgain)

$15B/yr fragmented stack

Every chip vendor has a separate DB. A scanned chip routes through whichever vendor sold it. Hylaq is the universal namespace; chip number is just one attribute on the pet's handle.

Pet insurance

$15B/yr opaque industry, ~50% loss ratios

Owners pay premiums to a carrier they'll fight when it matters. Hylaq pools are species-scoped mutuals where claims cite a vet attestation and pay via the Settlement Grid.

Vet practice management silos

$8B/yr stuck in 47 closed systems

Switching vets means re-entering 8 years of records. Records live with the pet, not the practice — vets sign attestations onto the pet's handle.

Breeder + kennel club paper trails

$2B/yr in pedigree economy

Stud books are forge-able paper. With BREEDER_LINEAGE attestations from a verified breeder handle, lineage is cryptographic — and compounds across generations.

Shelter + lost-and-found networks

$3B/yr + immeasurable emotional cost

6.5M pets enter US shelters every year; ~30% of lost dogs are never returned. Hylaq matches found-reports against lost-reports by species + geo radius automatically, with reward escrow on top.

Working-animal certification (service dogs, K-9, racehorses)

$5B+/yr regulated stack

Today certification is one document, often forged. With WORKING_CERT attestations from accredited issuers, status is queryable + revocable in real time.

Six paws. One protocol.

@trudell/titan, 8 years, German Shepherd

Vet visit at the new clinic. They scan his chip, see 12 prior visits with full history, vaccination schedule, and current insurance pool. Setup takes 5 seconds, not 2 hours.

Inheriting grandma's cat

Grandma's @handle proposes a transfer to her grandson. He accepts. The cat's 11-year medical record + insurance pool seat travels — no vet onboarding, no insurance lapse.

Lost in the park

Owner reports lost with a $200 reward. A jogger finds the dog 4km away the next day, posts a found-report, photo. The system matches in 3 seconds. Reward releases on confirmed reunion.

Vet attestation = automatic claim

Vet posts a VET_VISIT attestation for a $250 broken paw. Owner files a claim citing it. HQ approves; the pool pays via Settlement Grid in seconds. No carrier, no phone tree.

Breeder lineage that doesn't lie

Verified breeder posts BREEDER_LINEAGE attestations linking sire + dam handles. Show-dog buyers verify pedigrees in one query. The forged-paper economy collapses.

Service-dog access in real time

A restaurant scans the dog's WORKING_CERT attestation, sees a valid issuer + scope + expiration. Employee gets clear yes/no, owner doesn't have to argue paperwork.

Why @owner/name beats @name-owner

// Today (broken):

@trudell-titan

Pet name + last name. Looks fine until Titan gets adopted by your nephew. Then what? Mint a new handle. Lose 8 years of records.

// Hylaq Pet:

@trudell/titan ── transfer ▶ @nephew/titan

Same internal id. Same vet records. Same chip. Same insurance pool seat. Just a different parent.

And a PRIOR_OWNER attestation auto-recorded for permanent provenance.

Shipped today

src/lib/pets/ — types, registry with stable internal id, attestation lifecycle (8 kinds), two-sided signed transfer with Settlement-Grid-atomic price, lost-and-found with haversine geo-radius matching, micro-insurance pool with Settlement-Grid-atomic claim payouts, BigInt-safe wire serialize
12 API routes — register, attest, transfer/propose, transfer/accept, transfer/complete, lost, found, reunion, insurance/pools (GET + POST), insurance/enroll, insurance/claim, insurance/decide, insurance/pay, lookup, health
Durability invariant proven by jest end-to-end test — register @trudell/titan -> attest VET_VISIT -> transfer to @nephew -> assert pet.id unchanged + petKey @nephew/titan + VET_VISIT still attached + PRIOR_OWNER attestation auto-written
Lost-and-found radius matching — haversine distance, 50km default, species + radius gate; tested with NYC vs LA negative case
Insurance pipeline — createPool -> enroll -> file -> decide (auto-APPROVE up to 80% of reserve) -> payClaim via Settlement Grid yields a sha256 receipt; oversized claims auto-REJECT
Phase-2 swap points called out — persist to Postgres, vet practice-management integrations for real attestations, microchip-scanner integrations at vets/shelters, real actuarial pricing + reinsurance, working-animal verticals

The pet outlives any owner. The protocol should too.

Microchips were a 1990s fix to a 1990s problem. Hylaq Pet is a protocol-native, ownership-durable, vet-attested identity layer for every animal on Earth. Same primitives as the rest of the stack — handle, payment rail, intelligence — pointed at a $260B/yr industry that's been begging for a sovereign-identity layer for 30 years.

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