Hive · Architecture

From receipt API down to silicon.

Hive owns the full stack. Receipts are the surface buyers see; underneath sits a five-phase AFiR evolution, an embedded-chip roadmap, and a verifier discipline that makes every claim provable offline. Depth without front-door clutter.

Evolution

AFiR — five phases. Each one a superset.

The AFiR signing primitive evolved from a single-call receipt to a real-time stream attestation. Each phase remains live; later phases compose earlier ones.

P1 · Live

AFIR — signed inference.

One call in, one signed receipt out. ML-DSA-65 + Ed25519. Sub-7ms hot-path.
P2 · Live

AFiR-S — selective.

Sign only the fragments materiality policy demands. Privacy-preserving by construction.
P3 · Live

AFiR-RC — recoverable.

Agent-level checkpointing. Catch a bad step, roll back, repair, continue — provably.
P4 · Live

AFiR-Stream — real-time.

Off-path sidecar signing on streaming workloads. 28µs hot-path overhead on voice cadence.
P5 · Roadmap

AFiR-PQ-Embed.

ML-DSA-65 emitted from device silicon — not the cloud. SoC + handset SE integration paths.
Coming to silicon

From cloud receipt to embedded chip.

Hive owns the full stack from receipt API down to the silicon that emits it. Three substrate forms are on the roadmap, each with its own integration path.

EMBEDDED

Wave-Lattice in your pocket.

Wave-Lattice axes ported to mobile silicon (ARM SE / TrustZone). Per-app post-quantum receipts emitted from the device, not the cloud. Pennies of BOM at handset volumes.
SoC

RogueWave-Lattice SoC.

Drop-in cosmic-tier entropy and ML-DSA signing for any embedded device. Standalone chip plus reference board, integrators license firmware. $15 BOM target at 100K volume.
ON REQUEST

Industrial / sovereign / orbital.

Data-center HSM card, automotive ECU, satellite payload, industrial PLC module. Form factor configured per buyer. Sovereign-grade attestation chain end to end.
Stack

What lives where.

Receipts on top. Verifier discipline at the core. Settlement on real public rails. Substrate goes from the API surface down to the chip.

SURFACE

Receipt API + SDKs.

One REST surface, three SDKs (Node, Python, Go). hive-vcr-1 wire format. Developers →
PRIMITIVES

AFIR family.

Five signing primitives composing the four assurance tiers. Assurance →
SUBSTRATE

Wave-Lattice.

6-axis production substrate, CAVP-PASS. RogueWave-Lattice 16 cosmic-tier ceiling. Wave-Lattice →
SETTLEMENT

Protocol.

SIU units, MNKA discipline, USDC on Base settlement. Protocol →
Protocol Assurance tiers Developers Verify a receipt →