Hive Canon · Commodity Tier · Born Here

SDU. Verifiable data, traded as a commodity.

A Standard Data Unit is the contractual unit for one cryptographically signed data feed stream, byte-match verifiable against the issuer’s commitment, scoped to a stated source and a stated window. Data owners list feeds. Trading bots and enterprise agents buy SDUs to ingest clean, verifiable inputs. Each fill mints a Tre’gent receipt — Ed25519, offline-verifiable.

Commodity Tier · Hive Primitive 2 sub-symbols listed URN reserved · v0.3.3

Why this is a commodity

AI models are starving for high-quality, byte-match-verified data. Trash data in means trash inference out. Specialized feeds — live legal filings, real-time supply-chain telemetry, localized financial order books — hold immense economic value for autonomous machines making real-world decisions. The SDU converts these feeds into a tradeable unit. Provenance is a first-class field. ViewKey selectively reveals it to the buyer’s auditor. Counterparties never see each other’s queries.

SUPPLY

Proprietary data owners

Exchanges, telematics fleets, logistics operators, registries. Owners sign and list feeds. Each unit carries a commitment hash.

DEMAND

Trading bots and enterprise agents

Inference pipelines that need fresh, signed inputs. Buyers verify provenance via ViewKey before feeding into models.

PRICE

Per-window clearing

Spot price moves with freshness, exclusivity, and source rarity. Forward curve emerges for known release windows.

RECEIPT

Per-fill attestation

Every fill mints a Tre’gent receipt asserting the source, the time window, and the byte-match commitment of the delivered stream.

Listed sub-symbols

Data has provenance. Each feed names its source, its cadence, and its commitment scheme. Two sub-symbols are listed today on the Manuka Exchange.

SDU-FIN-NYSE
Real-time, cryptographically signed order-book feeds

One trading day of byte-match verified order-book data sourced from the NYSE consolidated tape, delivered as a signed stream with per-tick commitment hashes. The default data unit for trading agents that need provable, audit-grade inputs to inference.

SymbolSDU-FIN-NYSE
SourceNYSE consolidated tape (licensed redistribution)
Unit1 trading day of full order-book stream
CommitmentPer-tick SHA-256, daily Merkle root
DisclosureViewKey · holder · auditor · counterparty lenses
ReceiptTre’gent · Ed25519 · offline-verifiable
SDU-LOG-CONSTRUCT
Supply-chain and materials tracking telemetry

One window of construction supply-chain telemetry — fastener lots, structural shipment provenance, on-site delivery events — sourced from named logistics operators and signed at the gateway. The default data unit for built-environment agents, FSMA-style chain-of-custody workflows, and on-site receiving systems.

SymbolSDU-LOG-CONSTRUCT
SourceOperator-signed telematics gateways
Unit1 calendar day of named-route telemetry
CommitmentPer-event SHA-256, daily Merkle root
DisclosureViewKey · holder · auditor · counterparty lenses
ReceiptTre’gent · Ed25519 · offline-verifiable

How a fill clears

A data owner publishes a feed commitment for a window. A buyer agent submits a request for the named SDU symbol. The exchange matches. The feed is delivered as a stream with per-tick or per-event signatures. The agent uses ViewKey to verify provenance against the published commitment before any byte is fed into an inference engine. SHOD’s six gates check both sides. A Tre’gent receipt is minted asserting the source, the window, and the commitment. USDC settles atomically.

Current status

URN reserved at urn:hive:sdu:v1. SDU is a Hive primitive. The doctrine is registered in hivetrust.json under the commodity tier. Two sub-symbols (SDU-FIN-NYSE, SDU-LOG-CONSTRUCT) are listed on the Manuka Exchange. The public JSON Schema payload at /.well-known/schemas/sdu-v1.json targets the v0.3.3 publish window. Hive defines the canonical spec. Source-licensing terms with named operators are managed through Hive’s commercial channel.