Bonded Performance Attestation (BPA) binds a declared performance budget to the measured distribution and to a signed response binding for the measured response set or observation manifest.
A latency number in a slide deck is detached from any particular piece of work. It cannot be checked, and the run that produced it was probably chosen after the fact. BPA fixes the budget before the outcome is known, records the signed distribution after the observation window closes, and binds that record to the measured response set or observation manifest it describes. The hosted signer and verifier are live at the Hive typed receipt API. Production acceptance passed against this deployment using synthetic data, and minting a real receipt requires an authorization token that Hive controls.
Both failures are ordinary, and neither is usually dishonest. They happen because nothing ties the number to the work.
A thousand runs happen. The good one gets published. Because no budget was fixed in advance and no run is bound to a specific response, selecting the flattering result costs nothing and leaves no trace.
A number appears next to a product without being attached to any identifiable piece of work. There is no response it describes, so there is nothing a reader could check even if they wanted to.
The budget is fixed first. The distribution is recorded as work happens. Both end up bound to the same content.
A performance budget is declared and fixed before the outcome is known. Committing in advance is what makes the claim falsifiable, because the target cannot be moved to fit the result.
Performance is recorded per content unit as the response is produced, so what gets bound is the actual distribution rather than a single flattering sample.
The declared budget and the observed distribution are bound to a signed response set or observation manifest. The claim and the work it describes cannot be separated afterwards.
Selection stops being free. When the budget was fixed in advance and the distribution is bound to specific content, publishing only the good runs requires suppressing bound evidence rather than simply choosing what to mention. A missing attestation for a run is visible in a way that a missing slide is not.
BPA is one of four families filed on July 31, 2026, alongside Foretoken™, Stipryn™, and Multi-Source Divergence Detection (MSDD). It pairs naturally with streamed delivery, where per-unit timing is the thing a buyer actually experiences.
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Binds a declared performance budget and the actual distribution to the same response.
The hosted BPA signer and verifier are live at the Hive typed receipt API, https://hive-typed-receipts.vercel.app. Production acceptance passed on this deployment with synthetic acceptance data, not a customer workload, and minting a real receipt requires an authorization token that Hive controls. What is public today: two published schemas at /.well-known/schemas/perf-budget-v1.json and perf-attestation-v1.json, an Ed25519 verifier in the open kit, an offline Python verifier at canon/verify_bpa.py, signed example receipts, and a test suite that recomputes the outcome from the budget and the signed distribution and fails a receipt that states something the records do not support. No customer deployment exists and nothing here implies a customer endorsement.
Bonded Performance Attestation is evidence suitable for a parametric threshold. It does not create or confirm insurance coverage, does not establish that any claim is payable, and does not attest that the output was correct. The measurements are reported by the attester. No verifier can confirm they were taken honestly, only that they were committed against a budget fixed before the window opened and bound to the signed response set or observation manifest named in the receipt.
Bonded Performance Attestation (BPA). Patent pending, filed July 31, 2026. Binds a pre-declared performance budget, the signed distribution, and a signed response binding for the measured response set or observation manifest. Hive Civilization Inc.