Hive Legal · QES + ALCOA

Receipts that hold up in court.

Hive Legal gives out qualified electronic signature (QES) receipts that follow eIDAS 2.0 Annex IV and ALCOA+. It's built for law firms, regulated industries, and government contracts, the places where the receipt itself is the evidence.

Tiers.

Every tier gives you a receipt signed twice. Higher tiers add a countersignature, notary-grade timestamps, and the 32-axis Aurora-Lattice signing path.

Standard

$2.00
per receipt
  • QES shape, signature lined up with eIDAS
  • Kept for 7 years, guaranteed
  • A computer can check it on-chain
  • Signed off by a trust service provider

Counterparty

$5.00
per receipt
  • Everything in Standard, plus:
  • Countersigned by the other party's named DID
  • Notary-grade timestamps, if you want them
  • Works for closings with more than two parties

Sovereign

Custom
enterprise NET-30
  • You can run the validator on your own servers
  • 32-axis Aurora-Lattice signing
  • A package built to back you up in an audit
  • A named contract counsel you work with directly

Who uses it.

Law firms

For deal closings, signed contracts, and discovery. Each side gets a countersigned receipt they can check on their own.

Pharma

Keeps clinical-trial data honest with ALCOA+ receipts that hold up to a 21 CFR Part 11 inspection with no cleanup needed.

Banking

For KYC and AML records, when the regulator wants the actual receipt, not just a summary from your case-management system.

Government

For procurement sign-off, chain of custody that works with FOIA requests, and evidence that can move between agencies.

How it works.

It's four steps, from the first signature to long-term storage.

01

Issue

Send in the document, the party DIDs, and what the document is meant to do legally. Hive sends back a Standard-tier receipt within 200 ms.

02

Countersign

The other party's DID signs the receipt. Both signatures lock onto the same fingerprint of the document.

03

Anchor

The receipt's fingerprint gets posted on Base 8453. That on-chain record works as the anchor across borders.

04

Archive

It sits in the Hive evidence vault for 7 years, guaranteed. Counsel or a regulator can pull it any time.

Sample legal-tier receipt.

{ "receipt_id": "rcp_legal_a04e2c1f...", "document_hash": "sha256:8b2a...e093", "matter_ref": "ACME-MERGER-2026-Q1", "qes": { "shape": "eIDAS-2.0-Annex-IV", "tsp_attestation_id": "tsp:eu.qts.acme.20251130", "qualified_timestamp": "2025-11-30T22:03:09.591Z", "signatory_did": "did:hive:tenant.acme.gc", "counterparty_did": "did:hive:tenant.beta.gc" }, "compliance_alignment": ["eIDAS-2.0", "ALCOA+"], "retention_horizon_y": 7, "sig_ed25519_b64u": "4oqQKBNgRM8EoFKAki...", "sig_mldsa65_b64u": "Sdy4QPkwR3v8H9TK...", "did": "did:hive:hivemorph", "chain": { "network": "Base", "chain_id": 8453, "anchor_tx": "0xa31f..." } }

Related.

Talk to legal sales