Register DIDs

1. 1

   Create an account

   Individual researchers can start on the free Researcher tier: public resolution, 100 did:bio registrations a year, and 5 GB of pinned IPFS storage. Organizations registering at production volume join as a member, beginning with a short membership inquiry.

2. 2

   Mint the identifier

   Enter metadata through the Ekayana Console form, or POST /api/did from your own pipeline. Each registration writes the DID document, anchors it in the Solana registry, stores the metadata record, and makes the identifier available to resolvers.

3. 3

   Resolve it anywhere

   GET /api/did/resolve/{id} returns the signed DID document to anyone, with no account required. The did:bio method is generatively resolvable, meaning every valid identifier resolves to a deterministic document rather than a dead link.

// Mint a did:bio identifier for a dataset
const res = await fetch('https://api.ekayana.com/api/did', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    controller: 'did:bio:devnet:2T6zLFvMx7NJ...',
    public_key: 'z6MkfuN2vWAoHermh6vY6TgAJfwhBWZC...',
    metadata: {
      title: 'Coral bleaching survey 2026',
      researchers: [{ name: 'Ada Lovelace', role: 'PI' }],
      keywords: ['coral', 'bleaching'],
      license: 'CC-BY-4.0',
    },
  }),
});

const didDocument = await res.json();

# Public resolution: no account and no token required
curl https://api.ekayana.com/api/did/resolve/did:bio:devnet:2T6zLFvMx7NJ...

# Returns the signed DID document: verification keys,
# service endpoints, and the research metadata record.

Authentication, updates, and Dataverse DOI linking are covered in the documentation.

Datasets

Research data addressed by content, so identical bytes always produce the same CID. Pairs with Promote Reuse for citation and usage reporting.

Papers and preprints

Publications, with BioAgents extracting entities and enriching the metadata record for the owner to review before publication.

Physical samples

Specimens, cores, and cultures, linked to the datasets and papers derived from them.

Instruments and facilities

The equipment behind a measurement, so provenance chains in the knowledge graph reach the source.

Cultural heritage

Artifacts, collections, digitized manuscripts, and archival records: content addressed, tamper evident, and discoverable through semantic search, with the holding institution deciding where the data physically lives.

Ekayana is pre-launch. We are assembling a founding network of repositories, libraries, and heritage institutions. Follow the research blog for progress, or start a membership inquiry to join it.