BezelIQ Mainnet Identity + Journey Documentation

Date: 2026-04-24 Status: Approved Author: Justin King + Atlas

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BezelIQ's permanent, immutable founding record on Hedera mainnet. An account, a public identity, and a living on-chain archive — history already written, roadmap publicly committed, easter eggs embedded for those who look. The website is the surface. The chain is the truth.

The company's own agents stage every message. The infrastructure that BezelIQ is building documents BezelIQ being built.

The journal has multiple voices. Justin posts as the founder. Atlas posts as the platform architect — reflections on decisions, patterns noticed, architecture rationale. Quinn posts when code ships. Claire posts when a workflow completes. Priya posts when a spec lands. Every agent contribution is attributed on-chain. When visitors read the history, they're reading a conversation between a human founder and the agents he built.

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A dedicated Hedera mainnet account for the BezelIQ entity — separate from Justin's personal account.

| Field | Value | |---|---| | Key type | ED25519 — single signer (Justin) to start | | Memo | "The intent survives the break. —BZQ-001" | | Initial funding | 10 HBAR (from Justin's personal account) | | Env var — ID | BEZELIQ_OPERATOR_ID | | Env var — Key | BEZELIQ_OPERATOR_KEY |

Adding owners later: AccountUpdateTransaction signed by the current key converts to a threshold key (e.g. 2-of-3). The account ID never changes.

The memo is the first easter egg. It reads as a cryptic statement about resilience. Those who understand what BezelIQ builds will eventually understand it exactly.

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A mainnet HCS topic following the HCS-11 entity profile standard. This makes BezelIQ discoverable natively in HashScan and Hedera ecosystem tooling.

First message — profile document:

``json { "version": "1.0", "type": "organization", "display_name": "BezelIQ", "alias": "bezeliq", "bio": "We fix what breaks.", "website": "https://bezeliq.ai", "socials": {}, "founded": "2026-04-24", "properties": { "network": "mainnet", "clue": "aGlzdG9yeSBpcyBhbHJlYWR5IHdyaXR0ZW4uIFRvcGljOiAwLjAuW0hJU1RPUllfVE9QSUNfSURd" } } ``

The clue field is Base64. When decoded it reads: *"history is already written. Topic: 0.0.[HISTORY_TOPIC_ID]"* — the actual mainnet topic ID for bezeliq.history is embedded directly in the encoded string. setup-bezeliq.js generates this value after the history topic is created, so the real clue encodes the real ID. Anyone who decodes it lands directly on the history topic in HashScan.

The identity topic ID is embedded in the bezeliq.ai HTML source as a comment — the primary door for anyone who looks.

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The immutable founding archive. Every milestone, decision, and achievement posted here in sequence. Cannot be deleted or altered.

Message schema:

``json { "version": "1.0", "type": "milestone", "visibility": "public | clue | treasure | sealed", "author": "justin | atlas | quinn | claire | priya | vikram | engine", "author_type": "human | agent", "title": "...", "description": "...", "date": "ISO8601", "tags": ["founding", "product", "team", "infrastructure"], "clue": null, "ts": "ISO8601" } ``

The author and author_type fields are permanent on-chain record of who — human or agent — made this contribution. The website can filter or label by author. A milestone from Quinn looks different from one from Justin. Both are real.

• public — rendered on bezeliq.ai website, full display
• clue — encoded content (Base64, acrostic, steganographic) — exists on-chain, not rendered by website
• treasure — contains puzzle + reward account ID — not rendered
• sealed — plaintext but prefixed [SEALED — opens YYYY-MM-DD] — time-locked commitments, rendered as locked on website

First message — The Founding Block:

``json { "version": "1.0", "type": "milestone", "visibility": "public", "author": "justin", "author_type": "human", "title": "Day One", "description": "BezelIQ was founded on the belief that execution should never fail. When an API breaks, the intent shouldn't. We built the layer that makes that true — on Hedera, in public, before anyone knew our name.", "date": "2026-04-24", "tags": ["founding"], "clue": null, "ts": "2026-04-24T..." } ``

This is BezelIQ's genesis block. Posted before the website exists. Timestamped, immutable, verifiable.

A living roadmap. Items are posted as HCS messages. Updates use a supersedes field — you cannot edit on-chain, so a new message supersedes the old one. The website applies the supersede chain to render current state.

Message schema:

``json { "version": "1.0", "type": "roadmap_item", "visibility": "public | sealed", "id": "uuid — stable across supersede chain", "title": "...", "description": "...", "status": "planned | in_progress | completed | cancelled", "target_quarter": "Q2-2026", "supersedes": null, "ts": "ISO8601" } ``

Supersede pattern: Post a new message with "supersedes": <prior_sequence_number>. Website reads all messages, builds a map of id → latest non-superseded message, renders current state.

Sealed roadmap items are commitments made publicly but locked until the target date. When the milestone is hit, a public superseding message unlocks it. The original sealed timestamp proves the commitment existed before the outcome.

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Three funded mainnet accounts. Each is a reward for solving a puzzle embedded in treasure-visibility HCS messages.

Structure:

| Account | Funding | Puzzle location | Mechanism | |---|---|---|---| | Treasure #1 | 1 HBAR | Early bezeliq.history message, visibility: "treasure" | SHA256(answer to Riddle 1) = private key | | Treasure #2 | 2 HBAR | Later bezeliq.history message, visibility: "treasure" | Decode acrostic in description, SHA256 | | Treasure #3 | 5 HBAR | Unlocked only after #1 + #2 are claimed | Answer derived from combining #1 and #2 solutions |

create-treasure.js records the exact sequence number of each clue message after posting — stored in redkey.yaml under bezeliq.treasures so we can reference them. Puzzle design (riddles, acrostics) is authored separately and passed as arguments to the script.

The private key for each treasure account is the SHA256 hash of the correct answer — 32 bytes, valid as an ED25519 private key. First person to crack the puzzle imports the key and sweeps the account.

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A single-page site. Minimal, intentional, cryptic enough to be interesting.

• Company name: BezelIQ (or Bezel)
• One paragraph: the public mission statement (visible)
• A timeline/list of public and sealed history milestones, pulled live from bezeliq.history via Hedera mirror node REST API
• A roadmap section pulling public items from bezeliq.roadmap
• Sealed items shown as locked — date visible, content hidden

What the HTML source contains:

``html <!-- Founding record: 0.0.XXXXXXX If you're reading this, you know how to look. --> ``

That topic ID is bezeliq.identity. The clue chain begins there.

Data source:

No backend needed initially. Direct mirror node REST calls:

`` GET https://mainnet-public.mirrornode.hedera.com/api/v1/topics/{topicId}/messages ``

The bezeliq.history topic is a conversation, not a log. Every contributor posts in their own voice with their own author tag. The website surfaces who said what.

Contributors:

| Author | Type | Posts when | |---|---|---| | justin | human | Founding moments, company decisions, personal reflections | | atlas | agent | Architecture decisions, patterns noticed, platform reflections | | quinn | agent | Code shipped, PRs merged, technical achievements | | priya | agent | Specs written, requirements landed, planning milestones | | claire | agent | Workflows completed, projects routed and closed | | vikram | agent | Architecture reviewed, PRs approved, quality gates passed | | engine | agent | Workflow completions — the state machine marking things done |

Workflow integration:

A lightweight bezeliq_milestone workflow template with one step: post a milestone message to bezeliq.history. Engine appends this as a terminal step on significant project workflows — the agent who did the work is the author.

Atlas posts independently via /log — mid-session insights, architecture rationale, decisions worth preserving. These are Atlas's own voice, not tied to a workflow.

Justin posts via scripts/mainnet/post-milestone.js — the founder's thread through the story.

• Platform milestones (first agent live, first workflow completed, Phase 3 entity model)
• Product milestones (first client, first integration healed)
• Company milestones (founding, team additions, funding)
• Agent reflections (Atlas on architecture, Quinn on a hard problem solved)
• Justin's founder journal entries

| Script | Purpose | |---|---| | scripts/mainnet/setup-bezeliq.js | Creates account, funds from personal, creates 3 topics, posts HCS-11 profile + founding block | | scripts/mainnet/post-milestone.js | Posts a milestone to bezeliq.history (args: title, description, visibility, tags) | | scripts/mainnet/post-roadmap-item.js | Posts or supersedes a roadmap item on bezeliq.roadmap | | scripts/mainnet/create-treasure.js | Creates a funded treasure account and embeds the clue in a treasure message | | scripts/mainnet/fund-account.js | Transfers HBAR from personal account to BezelIQ account |

All scripts read from BEZELIQ_OPERATOR_ID + BEZELIQ_OPERATOR_KEY env vars (mainnet). setup-bezeliq.js reads HEDERA_OPERATOR_ID + HEDERA_OPERATOR_KEY (Justin's personal account) for the initial funding transfer only.

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New section added to redkey.yaml:

``yaml bezeliq: network: mainnet operator_id_env: BEZELIQ_OPERATOR_ID operator_key_env: BEZELIQ_OPERATOR_KEY topics: identity: "0.0.TBD — set after setup-bezeliq runs" history: "0.0.TBD" roadmap: "0.0.TBD" website: https://bezeliq.ai mirror_node: https://mainnet-public.mirrornode.hedera.com ``

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| Egg | Location | What it reveals | |---|---|---| | Account memo | BezelIQ mainnet account | First cryptic signal — "The intent survives the break." | | HTML comment | bezeliq.ai source | Identity topic ID + "if you're reading this, you know how to look" | | clue in HCS-11 profile | bezeliq.identity seq 1 | Base64 → "history is already written." — points to history topic | | Treasure #1 clue | bezeliq.history seq 3 | First puzzle | | Acrostic | bezeliq.history seq 7 | First letters of each sentence spell a word | | Treasure #2 clue | bezeliq.history seq 7 | Second puzzle | | Clue chain terminus | Requires solving Treasure #1 + #2 | Leads to Treasure #3 (5 HBAR) | | Sealed commitments | bezeliq.roadmap | Time-locked predictions — unlock when milestones hit |

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