The proof layer for AI systems

AI receipts: signed, verifiable proof of
what your AI actually did.

Hive turns every AI inference, agent action, model call, and agent payment into an AI receipt: an independently signed, portable object that anyone can check offline. It's the proof layer under agent receipts, signed model calls, x402 AI payments, MCP and API agent receipts, and a full AI audit trail. Every receipt carries two signatures, Ed25519 and post-quantum ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204).

A log says “trust us, this happened.” An AI receipt says “check it yourself.” Hive attests what the AI did: the conditions and the action, and nothing more. It never claims the output was correct.

The AI-receipt thread index

Each phrase below points to the same idea: independent, signed proof of AI behavior. Follow any thread to the live page or explainer behind it.

Thread 01

AI receipts

Signed, independently verifiable proof of what an AI system did. The base object: dual-signed, portable, offline-verifiable, and post-quantum under ML-DSA-65.

Cryptographic AI receipts →
Thread 02

Agent receipts

Every route decision, tool call, model choice, and action an AI agent takes, captured as a signed receipt chain: verifiable proof of what an autonomous agent actually did.

Agent receipts, live →
Thread 03

x402 AI payments

Agents pay per action in USDC on Base through the HTTP 402 payment_required flow. Settlement is live today, and every payment emits a signed receipt.

x402 checkout →
Thread 04

AI payment receipts

A signed receipt for each agent payment: what was paid, for which action, on which rail. It's settlement proof that outlives the transaction.

Emit a payment receipt →
Thread 05

Model receipt verification

Independently check the signature on a model call: provider, model, prompt hash, response hash, timing. Hive checks it in your browser and offline.

Verify a model receipt →
Thread 06

Agent provenance

Which agent, which tool, which model, which human: each one bound as a signed field, so proof of origin survives after an artifact leaves your systems.

Verify surface →
Thread 07

AI audit trail

The chain of signed receipts an AI system leaves behind, assembled into an exportable, independently re-verifiable record for an auditor, partner, or regulator.

Assurance postures →
Thread 08

Cryptographic AI receipts

Post-quantum ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204) signatures over AI inference, agent actions, and human-origin data, checkable offline by anyone.

The cryptography →
Thread 09

Verifiable AI agents

Agents whose every action is receipted by default. Choose the agent, the receipt level, the fleet size, and run: from one agent to a hundred.

Agent fleet →
Thread 10

Signed model calls

Prompt through Hive to a model and get the response plus a signed receipt for the call path. Mistral Leanstral is live today; the adapter layer targets more providers.

Signed model calls →
Thread 11

AI action receipts

Each action an AI takes, a route, a tool call, a decision, gets minted as a real ML-DSA-65 receipt and checked right in your browser.

Watch actions receipt →
Thread 12

Agent payment proof

On-rail proof that an agent paid for what it used: x402 settlement in USDC on Base, with each task receipted. Usage you can prove, not just a bill you have to trust.

Agent payment proof →
Thread 13

MCP receipts

When an MCP-compatible agent operates a platform through its tools, each operation becomes a signed receipt: which agent, which tool, against which workspace.

Receipt every agent operation →
Thread 14

API agent receipts

Every API operation an agent performs, each model, tool, and approval stop on the route graph, gets captured as a signed route receipt.

SmartAgent route graph →

Live pages: run a receipt today

Every page below is real and running, not a mock. Start with a free model receipt, pay and prove with x402, or run an agent trip.

live · free demoModel receipts/model-receipts/Signed proof for every model call: provider, model, prompt/response hashes, timing, and a signature that verifies in-browser. live · x402x402 checkout/x402-checkout/Fetch a live USDC quote on Base, prepare a wallet payment, run a signed receipt through the payment_required flow, and provision. live · receipt chainAgent trip/agent-trip/Seven route decisions stream in, each minted as a real ML-DSA-65 agent receipt and verified in your browser. Agent fleet/agent-fleet/Verifiable AI agents by the fleet. Choose the agent, the receipt level, the fleet size, and run. Start with one, scale to one hundred. live · relayReceipt Relay/receipt-relay/Receipt any external action, API call, agent step, payment claim, or chain transaction, with honest evidence tiers so a receipt never claims more than it can prove. Hive Ledger/hive-ledger/The searchable index for every signed receipt: discovery, search, and audit. The ledger is convenience. The receipt is the proof. Payment Healing/payment-healing/Sorts out rail-specific recovery for money movement: pre-broadcast stop or revoke, escrow or quarantine hold, issuer or custodian freeze where integrated, counter-transfer, or evidence-only after settlement. Verify/verify/Check any Hive receipt again, independently and offline. The proof doesn't need access to Hive to check. Activate/activate/Request a tk_live activation key to meter fleet usage and scope a pilot across your own AI-receipt workloads.

Here's the receipted money-movement loop: Receipt Relay signs the event, Hive Ledger searches, exports, and checks it, and Payment Healing sorts out rail-specific recovery. Hive proves what happened early enough to act on it where the rail allows, and proves what happened after the fact when it doesn't. The Circle/USDC-compatible receipt schema is live today. Direct Circle integration comes next.

One curl command: a live AI payment receipt quote

This hits Hive’s public, no-login x402 quote endpoint and returns a live settlement envelope with an ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204) signed quote receipt. No key, no secret, nothing to install.

POST · https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/x402/quote
curl -sS -X POST https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/x402/quote \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"agent_did":"did:example:agent","profile":"nano"}'

Read the thinking

Field notes and explainers on the proof layer for AI, from the Hive blog.