Hive Canon · Born Here

The primitives Hive invented.

Four canonical receipt and policy primitives, designed by Hive, cited by name in the open A2A and AEO ESS standards work. One ships today as a public JSON Schema with byte-match validation against the cross-ecosystem test substrate. Three are URN-reserved with public payloads on the v0.3.3 window. This page is the canonical reference for all of them.

Doctrine pillars sourced from hivetrust.json. Provable layer = the receipt primitives below. Settable = the rails. Defensible = the audit and certification surfaces.

Provable layer

Receipts and policy primitives. Born here. The four below are the canonical Hive contributions to the receipt standards work.

Commodity tier

The tradeable units of machine civilization. Each one a Hive primitive. Each one bound by a Tre’gent receipt, gated by SHOD, settled in USDC, verifiable offline. Listed live on the Manuka Exchange alongside the 9 SIU symbols.

Settable layer

Where receipts settle. Hive sits on top of the rails that already exist — and contributes a generation pipeline that signs receipts before the money moves.

x402
Programmatic HTTP payment

Hive endpoints quote and settle in x402 today. Anthropic, AWS, Coinbase posture mirrored on the interop page.

USDC on Base
Stablecoin rail

Production settlement chain. Native USDC, low fees, full deterministic chain-time policy support.

EIP-3009
transferWithAuthorization

Off-chain signed authorizations. Hive uses the standard for sub-receipt nano-pay flows.

AP2
Agent Payment Protocol

Hive participates in the AP2 working group. Receipts produced here verify against the AP2 envelope.

HiveCompute
Inference settlement

Pay-per-token inference settled in USDC, one signed receipt per call, no rebilling lag. /sdk/

Defensible layer

The audit and certification surfaces that turn the receipts and rails into something a regulator, an auditor, or a court can lean on.

HiveAudit
Audit pipeline

Subscription audit. Recompute every receipt's signature and gate decision, produce a regulator-ready quarterly bundle.

HiveComply
Compliance substrate

eIDAS 2.0 + ALCOA built into the receipt envelope. /legal/

HiveCertified
Certification surface

Per-vertical certifications — financial services, healthcare, public sector — published as canonical attestations.

HiveBench
Benchmarks

Public benchmarks of receipt generation and verification — sub-50ms p99 on the edge verifier. /verifier/

HiveVerify
Public verifier

Drag a receipt into the debugger and watch the canonical verification path run.

Verify a Tre’gent receipt offline

A live, signed receipt is published at /manuka/demo/sample-receipt.json. The issuer’s Ed25519 public key is published at /manuka/demo/issuer-pubkey.txt. The verifier is a single self-contained Python file. No Hive infrastructure is contacted during verification.

curl -sSL https://thehiveryiq.com/canon/verify_receipt.py -o verify_receipt.py curl -sSL https://thehiveryiq.com/manuka/demo/sample-receipt.json -o receipt.json curl -sSL https://thehiveryiq.com/manuka/demo/issuer-pubkey.txt -o issuer.pub pip install cryptography python3 verify_receipt.py receipt.json issuer.pub
Expected output on the live receipt
Exit code 0 = signature valid

RESULT: PASS
receipt_id: TGT-7f3a91e4c8d20146
symbol: SIU-LLM70B-T0-ZK-US
units: 25000
canonical sha256: 92ab59fe59eb7f82b635c205cea3e9442b0f1d16a077052cdb673084ff1b5de5
hahs_anchor: base block 18442011
settlement: 145.0 USD via MANUKA
verified offline. no Hive infrastructure contacted.

Canonicalization
json-sorted-no-whitespace

Strip the signature field, re-serialize with sorted keys, no whitespace, UTF-8. The Ed25519 signature covers those exact bytes. Tamper any field and verification fails.

Cited in the standards work

These are the public threads where Hive primitives are referenced by name.

A2A Project
Discussion #1786

HAHS proposed as the canonical hire-time-scope substrate carrier in the authority-receipt thread.

a2aproject/A2A · discussion #1786

AEO ESS
Agent Governance Vocabulary #58

HAHS referenced as the canonical authority-receipt schema in the ESS governance vocabulary issue.

aeoess/agent-governance-vocabulary · issue #58

AgentGraph CTEF
Cross-ecosystem test vectors

HAHS validated 4/4 byte-match against CTEF v0.3.1. Substrate maintained by agentgraph.co.