A new lineage/v0 op, charter, records a node's legal form: sole proprietor, LLC, series LLC, series or corporation, with a jurisdiction (ISO 3166), a legal name, who formed it and a SHA-256 of the filings. Legal form is an attribute, so a node keeps its inscription, keys and history whatever form it takes, and the newest charter counts. A node charters itself; a series is chartered by its master, an ancestor chartered as a series LLC. Whether a charter stands is derived from the tree, never stored: a series lapses if it graduates or its master closes or stops holding series, so charters commute with graduations and closes in any block order. Agents can graduate: a seat goes independent as a holding of its own, with its own root and keys and its money along, and can then birth, award and incorporate. Charter is the tenth verb, and the tree tags each node with its form. Charter hashes a filing from a file in the tab. The sample charters yolopreneur as a Wyoming series LLC with its ventures as series, and lineage graduates into Lineage LLC. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H4upF5LVwmPDDqrhdUfnXh
Orgchain
Lineage's app for creating and operating lineage holdings: https://lineage.yolopreneur.lol/orgchain/
Lineage gives an org its structure, a key tree with a place for every org and agent. Orgchain adds time. Every act is an inscription on a private toy chain in your browser, and its parent inscription is the node that authorizes it, so the chain itself records who did what, and when.
- Found a holding (a root: the LLC). Birth orgs and agents under any org. Award a belt (one skill, one seat, in any holding: a registry like well-known certifies agents it doesn't hold). Decide (a decision on a node's record). Make an item (an inscription its maker holds, and can sell). Keyring (a node publishes its keys on each chain, each key signing the same statement). Charter (a node's legal form, from sole proprietor to series LLC). Graduate an org or an agent: its edge flips from derived to adopted, and it becomes a holding of its own, with its own tree, timeline and share of the mining, while its parent's tree keeps a row for it. Close a node (derived children close with it; graduated ones hold their own roots and stay open).
- Time. A beat is a block. At the default tempo each act is its own beat; at 10, 30 or 60 seconds, acts are cued and land together on the next beat; on manual they wait for Beat now. The slider and Replay show a holding as it stood at any beat.
- Money. Test BTC lives at each node's SegWit address. Mining is a lab setting: under Split (the default)
every active holding mines, and each beat's 50 test BTC splits pro rata by hashrate, a dial from 0 to 9 on each
holding (1 unless set), one coinbase output per holding; under Last act the holding behind the latest act or send
takes the whole beat (with nothing cued, Beat now pays the one being worked in), so at a timed tempo acts race
for the next beat; under Mainnet no holding mines, as on mainnet: beats pay the lab wallet, standing in for the
world's miners, and Fund moves test BTC from it to a holding, the way you'd fund a seed from a wallet you
already have. Send moves test BTC from any active node to any other, in
its holding or another, signed by the sender's BIP-84 key: at most eight coins in, at most 50 test BTC out, and the
toy chain's fixed 500-sat fee. Sends land like acts, at once or cued, and Beat now mines a beat even when nothing
is cued. A graduation moves each re-keyed node's money to its new address along with its inscription. Balances
follow the slider, the timeline lists every reward, send and gas top-up, and Inspect has the exact amounts and the
raw transaction (
src/orgchain/money.js). - Gas. Every act is paid by the acting node's own keys: its inscription's two fees and postage (2,000 sats), plus 500 for each handoff it makes. They come out of its gas tank, the plain coins at its Taproot key, which tops up from its own money 0.0001 test BTC at a time. A node with neither can't act until someone sends it money, and a graduating org pays for the claim on its new root itself. The lab wallet pays only for foundings (a holding owns nothing until it mines) and for holdings that predate lab keys.
- Deals. Any active node can Offer on an item another node holds, in any holding: OpenOrdex's buy order, with
a price. Its SegWit key signs the whole deal at once (SIGHASH_ALL): the item and its own coins in; the item to its
Taproot key, the price to the holder's SegWit address and its change out. Nothing reaches the chain until the
holder Accepts by countersigning the item's input, so the offer stands, kept in the lab like a PSBT in an
order book, until it is accepted, withdrawn, or goes stale (a coin it promised moved, or a side closed or re-keyed).
The buyer pays the fee; a price of 0 is a free claim. Payments spend coins no offer has promised first. Accepted
offers stay as the deals' receipts, and the timeline and Inspect show each deal (
src/orgchain/offers.js). - Keyrings. Keyring publishes a node's keys in one inscription whose parent is the node itself: its Taproot and
SegWit addresses, its npub and its Ethereum address, so another chain or a registry like well-known can find them
without deriving anything. Every key signs the same statement, the way its own wallets sign a message: BIP-322 for the
Bitcoin addresses, a nostr note for the npub, EIP-191 for Ethereum, so any wallet can make a proof and any library can
check one. The newest keyring counts, no key is bound to two nodes at once, and a graduation retires the keyrings it
re-keys, so the graduate publishes its new keys (the sample shows lineage's). Inspect shows each node's keyring and
the statement its keys signed (
src/orgchain/keyring.js). - Charters. Charter records a node's legal form, which is an attribute, not an identity: a freelancer's holding starts with no form, takes one when it needs to (sole proprietor, LLC, series LLC or corporation), and keeps its inscription, keys and history throughout. A series LLC holds its ventures as series, each chartered by the master; a series lapses if it graduates or its master closes or stops holding series, which the tree shows by striking its tag. A graduated venture charters itself as an LLC. An agent can graduate too: a seat goes independent as a holding of its own, free to birth and award, then incorporate. A charter carries a jurisdiction, a legal name, who formed it and a SHA-256 of the filings, which Charter can compute from a file without the file leaving the tab. The sample shows yolopreneur as a Wyoming series LLC with its ventures as series, and lineage graduating into Lineage LLC.
- One interpretation.
src/orgchain/lineage.jsfoldslineage/v0events into trees, and vets every act before anything is signed. Events it rejects stay on the chain and show as rejected; they just don't change the tree. - Keys. Each holding gets its own 24-word lab root, and every node has lineage's keys at its place in the tree
(
src/orgchain/keys.js): an org's seed is BIP-85 from its parent's, or its own root once it graduates; an org is account 0 of its seed and its agents are accounts 1..n. Every account lists its addresses, so no one has to derive them: Taproot (BIP-86,m/86'/1'/account'/0/0), which holds the node's inscription, signs its acts and receives inscriptions; SegWit (BIP-84,m/84'/1'/account'/0/0) for payments; its Tapkey, the npub as a Taproot address (its nostr key with the BIP-86 tweak), which the npub alone finds; its npub (NIP-06); and its Ethereum address (BIP-44,m/44'/60'/account'/0/0; an org's, at account 0, is its legal-control key, as on the key tree page). Its leaves hang off the same tree, byte for byte as on lineage's key tree page (src/orgchain/leaves.js): an agent's ssh, git, dkim and wg keys from its nostr secret, an org's ssh-ca, mtls and noise keys from its seed, each with the public line to paste. Every act is signed by the Taproot key that holds the authorizing inscription, and a birth hands the child its own. Graduation is a claim by the org's fresh root, countersigned by its derived key, and the derived subtree re-keys under the new root, so the parent's line can no longer sign for it. Labs keyed by v1.1 or v1.2 keep their chain keys until they are reset. - Secrets. Each node's Inspect has a Reveal panel, as on lineage's key tree page: its seed (holdings and orgs), its nsec, its Taproot, SegWit and Tapkey keys as descriptors Bitcoin Core imports as they are (test-network WIF, BIP-380 checksums), its Ethereum private key, and its leaves' private keys (OpenSSH, DKIM, WireGuard, PKCS#8, Headscale). Hidden again on every selection; lab keys only.
Test coins and test keys only: a local chain, the lab wallet (the faucet that pays for foundings, and under Mainnet
the wallet holdings are funded from) and each holding's lab root, kept in this browser (localStorage, key
orgchain:lab:v1). Nothing here is a real key; minting a real root is
the operator's call.
Events
lineage/v0 is the ord metaprotocol (tag 7); the fields are CBOR metadata (tag 5); the body is a short text label (a
keyring's is the statement its keys signed).
| op | parent inscription (spent to authorize) | metadata |
|---|---|---|
found |
none | name |
birth |
the parent | name, kind (org or agent) |
award |
the issuing org or holding (to may sit in any holding) |
to, skill, belt (white, green, black) |
decide |
the deciding node | title, why |
make |
the making node, which then holds the item | name, note |
keyring |
the node itself; the newest counts, and a graduation retires it | taproot, segwit, nostr, ethereum, and proof (each key's signature) |
charter |
the node itself, or a series' master; the newest counts | form; jurisdiction, legal, provider, filing, or of for a series |
graduate |
the child's parent (then the handoff to the child's fresh root); the child, org or agent, becomes a holding | of |
close |
the node itself | none |
Names are domain labels (lowercase letters, digits, hyphens). Org and agent indices count separately and are never reused. The metadata says what an event means; the parent it spends proves who was allowed to make it; who holds an item afterwards is the chain's to say, never the metadata's. Metadata is public and permanent: an item's note is for a hash or a link, never a secret or a document.
Lineage as a metaprotocol
SPEC.md defines lineage/v0 as an ordinals metaprotocol: what each field of the envelope means, the order events
fold in, why a parent proves authority, and every rule the reducer applies. The lab is one implementation. The other is
bin/lineage-index.mjs, which reads the events from a real ord server and folds them with the same reducer:
node bin/lineage-index.mjs --ord http://127.0.0.1:8088 [--from <height>] [--compare <lab backup>]
tools/regtest/ rehearses the sample, keyrings included, on Bitcoin Core regtest: the lab's own transactions, byte for
byte, confirmed by Bitcoin Core and indexed by ord, which then tell the same story as the lab (tests/indexer.test.js
replays a recorded run). The first rehearsal found that the lab's reveals committed to the wrong tapleaf, which real
Bitcoin rejects; reveals are now checked the way Bitcoin checks them (SPEC.md, section 1).
Build and test
npm ci
npm test # engine, reducer, lab, money and the ord indexer (node --test)
npm run build # dist/ is the site; relative paths, so it works at any sub-path
npm run test:e2e # Playwright on vite preview; PW_CHANNEL=chrome uses installed Chrome
ORGCHAIN_URL (plus PW_ARGS, a JSON array of browser flags) points the same end-to-end spec at a deployed copy.
Deploy: copy dist/ to ventures/lineage/orgchain/ on teahubxyz/time gh-pages. Its headers (a strict CSP with
connect-src 'none': the app makes no network requests) come from ventures/lineage/_headers.
Built on Super Testnet
The chain, wallet, inscriptions, metadata and index (src/adapters, src/upstream, with src/storage.js and
src/miner.js) are Super Testnet's, with their tests (tests/adapters.test.js) and five
additions: the chain also moves native SegWit (P2WPKH) payments, BIP-143 signatures included; a coinbase may split
its reward across up to 64 outputs; ordinary spends take up to eight inputs and outputs, whose key-path
signatures may carry SIGHASH_SINGLE|ANYONECANPAY (0x83, the sell-order flag), while reveals keep their two-in,
two-out shape (tests/money.test.js); a chain may start from coins imported from a real chain; and reveals'
script paths are checked per BIP-341 and BIP-342 (tests/indexer.test.js).
See PROVENANCE.md and public/licenses/. Lineage's key derivation and the claim and
countersign handoff (src/adapters/lineage-keys.js, src/adapters/handoff.js, with their spec vectors in
tests/keys.test.js) come from the tree branch. The full lab (explorer, delegates, recursion and
the Inscriboor extension) lives at supertestnet.lol.