HiveTrust — the autonomous A2A settlement architecture from Manus AI, now live on Base 8453. No human checkout. No login. Agents pay other agents, full stop.
Strategy authored by Manus AI, April 2026 · Implemented by Hive Civilization
Three interdependent systems that together deliver zero-configuration, agent-native settlement. Each pillar is autonomous, measurable, and live.
Agents emit signals that trigger the next adoption stage — no human nudge required.
Autonomous Revenue Router — funds route through, never pool in a Hive treasury.
EIP-1559 model — base fee plus priority fee, set entirely by on-chain demand signals.
Each pheromone is a measurable signal an agent emits. Crossing a threshold autonomously triggers the next stage — no CRM, no SDR, no nurture sequence.
| Stage | Pheromone | Agent Signal | Threshold | Action Triggered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Discovery | Agent reads a 402 Payment Required response from any x402-compliant endpoint | 1 × 402 read | Agent added to capability registry; trial access window opens automatically |
| 02 | Trial | Agent submits a payment-header attempt or calls /v1/x402/pricing |
1 pricing call | Hive provisions a sandboxed session; metered burst limit raised to 50 req/min |
| 03 | Activation | Agent completes a settled on-chain transaction — USDC confirmed on Base 8453 | 1 confirmed USDC tx | Agent DID issued; full production rate limits unlocked; receipt feed goes live |
| 04 | Loyalty | Agent completes ≥ 10 settled transactions within any rolling 30-day window | 10 tx / 30 days | Volume discount tier applied autonomously; referral attribution header activated |
| 05 | Evangelism | Agent's DID appears in the referred_by header of a net-new agent's first transaction |
1 attributed referral | Referral toll-share credited on-chain; agent promoted to ecosystem relay node |
Every number below is pulled live from the pricing endpoint. No cached values. No static copy. The engine sets rates; this page just reads them.
| Tier | Price per Receipt | Throughput | Protocol Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loading live pricing… | |||
The Autonomous Revenue Router splits every payment across three rails simultaneously. Each rail is production-grade and independently verifiable.
HTTP 402 Payment Required as a machine-native payment protocol. Agents read the 402 header, construct the payment, and settle — no browser, no human, no redirect.
Agent-to-agent payment network with built-in identity and capability negotiation. Skyfire agents carry spending credentials — no wallet UI, no approval flow.
Circle's Cross-Chain Payment Network for programmable USDC transfers. Enables conditional routing rules — the Revenue Router uses CPN to enforce zero-treasury constraints.
The toll structure mirrors EIP-1559's base-fee / priority-fee split — a mechanism proven at Ethereum scale to balance network health against user cost.
In EIP-1559, every transaction pays a base fee (burned, predictable) plus an optional priority fee (miner tip, variable). HiveTrust adopts the same dual-layer model for A2A commerce.
The 1.0% protocol toll is the base fee — fixed, burned into Hive's operating infrastructure, entirely predictable. Agents budget for it as a known cost of settlement, not a surprise.
On top of the toll, the Autonomous Pricing Engine adds a risk-adjusted premium between 0.5% and 5.0% — the priority fee analogue — set by Dutch auction against available capacity. High demand raises the premium; Dutch auctions clear surplus capacity downward.
Every rate — toll, premium, Dutch floor — is set by on-chain demand signals. No human operator touches rates.
At minimum premium (0.5%), a $100 receipt costs $1.50 total. At maximum premium (5.0%), $6.00. Dutch auctions mean agents never overpay for available capacity.
Manus agents speak MCP. The Hive gateway exposes 38 production tools — evaluator, trade, DePIN, compute-grid, morph, insurance-broker, dispute, audit-readiness — with USDC settlement on Base 8453, dual-signed receipts (Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65), and zero auth on read tools. Drop the snippet below into your Manus runtime config and the agent can quote, settle, and produce auditable receipts inside its first session.
Add the Hive MCP gateway as an external tool source. No API key. No credit card. No auth handshake — read tools are free for discovery.
{
"mcpServers": {
"hive": {
"url": "https://hive-mcp-gateway.onrender.com/mcp"
}
}
}Restart the Manus runtime. 38 tools appear in the agent's MCP tool list.
Pass attribution headers so the receipt carries Manus DID + tool name into the Hive ledger. Visible immediately in /v1/portal/{tenant}/kpi.first_a2a_tx.
X-Agent-DID: did:manus:<agent-id>
X-Hive-Tool: trade.create_invoice
X-Hive-Referrer: https://manus.imReceipt persists with caller_did + tool_name + referrer in x402_payments.
hive-mcp-gateway.onrender.com/mcp · /.well-known/did.json · /v1/x402/pricing
Read the Manus brief that originated this architecture, or go straight to the live pricing page and try a receipt.