# REST API

- [Overview](/rest-api/overview.md): The REST API provides a number of resources to manage assets, create marketplaces, consume to check the status of your account, update topics and send messages for generate timestamp consensus.
- [Inscriptions](/rest-api/inscriptions.md): This functionality implements the HCS-20 standard, and evolves with it over time. It provides all the alpha features expected including deploying, minting, burning, and transfer.
- [Deploy an Inscription](/rest-api/inscriptions/deploy-an-inscription.md): Deploy an Inscription with a name, ticker, max, limit, metadata, and memo.
- [Mint an Inscription](/rest-api/inscriptions/mint-an-inscription.md): Mint an Inscription with an amount, ticker, and to address.
- [Burn an Inscription](/rest-api/inscriptions/burn-an-inscription.md): Burn an Inscription with an amount, ticker, and from address.
- [Transfer an Inscription](/rest-api/inscriptions/transfer-an-inscription.md): Transfer an Inscription with an amount, ticker, and from/to addresses.
- [NFT Ecosystem](/rest-api/nft-ecosystem.md): Understand our process for building NFTs ecosystems completely through our API endpoints, from creation, minting, metadata creation, to advanced transfer features.
- [Create an NFT Collection](/rest-api/nft-ecosystem/create-an-nft-collection.md): Create an NFT Collection with a name, symbol, supply, and basic default royalties.
- [Generate Metadata](/rest-api/nft-ecosystem/generate-metadata.md): Helping you to generate and pin HIP412 compliant metadata for your minted NFTs in your collection inside of IPFS through NFT storage.
- [Mint an NFT](/rest-api/nft-ecosystem/mint-an-nft.md): After receiving your Metadata CID you may mint an NFT, based on your collection,
- [Transfer an NFT](/rest-api/nft-ecosystem/transfer-an-nft.md): Attempt a transfer of your NFT, from your treasury, to any account on Hedera
- [Claiming NFTs through Passes](/rest-api/nft-ecosystem/claiming-nfts-through-passes.md): \[pounding on the desk] This is it! I'm telling you this is it! - Jeremy Irons (Margin Call)
- [Accounts](/rest-api/accounts.md): Create a hedera account for a user, this will provide you will the capability to send tokens to a user.
- [Tokens](/rest-api/tokens.md): Manage tokens through minting and sending to your users.
- [Create a token](/rest-api/tokens/create-a-token.md): Create a token with a name, symbol, supply, and memo.
- [Bequesting a token](/rest-api/tokens/bequesting-a-token.md): Send a token to an account that you have previously generated. This feature allows you to create decentralised experiences with onchain proof where a user requires no prior blockchain experience.
- [Token Holdings and Balance](/rest-api/tokens/token-holdings-and-balance.md): There are a couple of requests you can use to check the balance of a given token for a given account or you can check if an account has a number of different tokens.
- [Topics](/rest-api/topics.md): Manage topics for sending consensus messages to the client. You may create, update and read the information of a given topic.
- [Get topic info](/rest-api/topics/get-topic-info.md): Get the information for a given topic.
- [Creating a new topic](/rest-api/topics/creating-a-new-topic.md): Create a topic that automatically has a admin key set, only allowing for the serverless client to update them. You can a topic completely private for writes and updates and sending messages.
- [Updating a topic](/rest-api/topics/updating-a-topic.md): Update a topic with a different memo that is more suitable for your use case.
- [Consensus Messages](/rest-api/consensus-messages.md): Send a consensus message to hedera through your API with the option of using webhooks for waiting synchronously for finality.
- [Balance](/rest-api/balance.md): Get the current account balance of the client
- [Status](/rest-api/status.md): Get the current status of the deployed client
- [Webhooks](/rest-api/webhooks.md): Using webhooks provides a mechanism to be sent consensus responses from your client without having to wait for consensus. Currently in development.