A long-retention evidence profile for regulated AI transactions.
Standard Hive receipts prove ordinary agentic commerce. Hive-PQ adds crypto-agile provenance, sealed evidence, dual-signature receipt profiles, and post-quantum-ready verification posture for workflows that may need to survive audits, regulators, litigation, system migration, and future cryptographic transition.
Hive-PQ is not required for every agent call.
For ordinary agentic commerce, Hive Standard is fast, verifiable, and economically efficient. For regulated workflows where evidence may need to be defended months or years later, Hive-PQ adds a premium crypto-agile evidence posture. The selection happens automatically through RubricMesh — based on industry, jurisdiction, risk tier, and retention need.
Hive Standard. Hive Pro. Hive-PQ.
One platform, three evidence postures. Every transaction runs on the same rails — the proof tier is what changes. RubricMesh selects the right one. The customer keeps the brand, the customer relationship, and the margin.
Fast verifiable agentic commerce.
- Ed25519 signatures
- BLAKE3 anchoring
- HKTN provenance
- Offline verifier
- Dashboard / evidence room where applicable
- Spectral-ZK receipts (well-formedness; sample profiles)
- SHOD origin disclosure (sample envelopes)
- SMSH message-state hash (sample envelopes)
- x402 / USDC settlement references (quote endpoint pilot)
Enterprise evidence rooms and proof workflows.
- Customer dashboard
- Private evidence room
- Private verifier instance
- Richer policy and routing logs
- Curated proof artifacts (envelope, receipt, appendix)
- Embedded ROI worksheet
- Endpoint health and uptime view
- Enterprise onboarding
Regulated and long-retention workflows.
- Post-quantum-ready provenance profile
- Dual-signature receipt profile
- ML-DSA / Dilithium-class signature posture
- ML-KEM / Kyber-class sealed envelope posture
- Rubric-bound evidence (RubricMesh)
- Long-retention crypto-agility metadata
- Regulator / auditor verifier mode
- Premium evidence-room posture
- Crypto-agility report
The platform you already know — with a premium proof tier on top.
Hive-PQ does not replace Spectral-ZK, SMSH, SHOD, or HKTN. It extends them with a long-retention, crypto-agile evidence posture that turns on for the transactions that need it.
Spectral-ZK
Spectral-ZK proves the policy or rubric statement at transaction time. Hive-PQ preserves that proof in a long-retention evidence profile so the same statement remains independently verifiable across cryptographic transitions.
SMSH-PQ — sealed evidence mode
SMSH-PQ adds post-quantum-ready sealed envelopes for sensitive inspection payloads, ViewKey material, and auditor-specific evidence access. Designed to support ML-KEM / Kyber-class envelopes when the formal integration ships.
SHOD-PQ — declaration / signature mode
SHOD-PQ gives high-retention declarations a dual-signature profile: current classical Ed25519 signature plus post-quantum-ready signature metadata. The receipt remains verifiable with classical tooling today and migration-ready for PQ tooling tomorrow.
HKTN — clearance profiles
HKTN now supports three clearance profiles: standard, enterprise, and pq_regulated. Regulated agents can carry a Hive-PQ clearance profile for long-retention provenance and audit-grade evidence carry-through.
Rosetta — PQ recommendation
Rosetta now flags when a transaction likely requires Hive-PQ — based on risk tier, jurisdiction, retention period, customer type, and evidence sensitivity. The decision is captured in the receipt itself, not bolted on after the fact.
Prospector — PQ opportunity detection
Prospector flags high-value regulated opportunities where Hive-PQ can be embedded inside the customer's premium product as a long-retention assurance tier — without the customer making it look like a vendor line.
The selector that decides Standard, Pro, or PQ.
RubricMesh evaluates industry, jurisdiction, transaction type, risk tier, retention need, evidence sensitivity, policy environment, and settlement type — and binds the answer into the receipt as a rubric hash. The proof tier becomes a declared, signed property of the transaction.
Rosetta translates. Prospector qualifies. HKTN contextualizes. RubricMesh selects the proof tier. Spectral-ZK proves. SMSH seals. SHOD signs. Hive-PQ preserves high-retention evidence when the transaction demands it.
Hive-PQ sits inside the customer's regulated premium offering — not beside it.
Hive-PQ is intentionally priced as a premium assurance tier — but the buyer never experiences it as a giant unrelated vendor line item. The customer keeps the brand, the customer relationship, the pricing power, and the margin. Hive supplies the long-retention proof, provenance, sealing, verifier, and evidence layer underneath.
The customer charges more for a regulator-defensible product. The customer's audit, compliance, and renewal friction goes down. The customer closes faster against banks, government, and enterprise legal teams. Hive-PQ is a small, embedded infrastructure cost inside the customer's own premium tier — not a vendor line on procurement's radar.
Many agent transactions do not need Hive-PQ. Regulated transactions do. The buyer experiences a stronger version of their own product. Margin stays with them.
What's LIVE, what's PILOT, what's ROADMAP.
Hive-PQ does not paper over the difference between presentation and production cryptography. The platform you already know is live. The PQ evidence profile is shipped as a pilot. The formal Kyber/Dilithium integration is on the roadmap.
Hive Standard rails
Spectral-ZK receipts, Ed25519 signatures, BLAKE3 anchoring, SHOD, SMSH, HKTN, x402 / USDC settlement references, offline verifier. Production today.
Hive-PQ evidence profile
Hive-PQ receipt profile, PQ provenance metadata, dual-signature receipt structure, SMSH-PQ sealed envelope profile, SHOD-PQ declaration profile, RubricMesh PQ routing, regulator/auditor verifier mode.
Selectable per call as profile=pq on /v1/receipt/emit. $0.0012 per call · ~7-year retention · crypto-agile metadata · auditor-verifier mode. Schema r1.0.0. Ladder: /pricing.
Formal PQ integration
Formal ML-DSA / Dilithium-class signature integration, formal ML-KEM / Kyber-class envelope integration, independent cryptographic review, post-quantum verifier compatibility testing, enterprise crypto-agility policy pack, customer-specific rubric registry.
Brief Hive-PQ against your regulated workflow.
Tell us the workflow, the regulator, and the retention period. We will scope the right proof tier, share an embedded ROI worksheet for your assurance package, and walk the diligence room with you in a working session.