FanDuel already runs the biggest playbook in US sportsbook.
Hive gives it what the regulators, the courts, and the AI critics have all started asking for: independently signed proof of every consequential action — at the moment it happens.

Four pressures. One needle each. Watch them converge.

Regulators, courts, the AI question, and integrity investigations are climbing at the same time — and all four demand the same primitive: independent, signed, contemporaneous proof that the intervention or decision happened, when, and on what basis. A self-written log is a document written by the defendant.

FanDuel's most exposed surfaces, and what a Hive receipt would add

Each row is a real 2026 pain surface, the specific proof gap it opens, and where a Hive receipt would sit on the rail. Nothing here claims FanDuel currently lacks these capabilities in code — the claim is that independent, signed, contemporaneous proof of those capabilities firing is what regulators, courts, and integrity partners are now asking for.

Every consequential action, signed as it happens

RG prompts, promo gates, KYC holds, trades, line moves, AML flags, AI-mediated actions — streaming past like the odds board, each stamped with its proof boundary. The receipt never over-claims which window applies.

Four primitives, one proof trail — same shape FanDuel already runs, with a third-party signature added

Nothing here asks FanDuel to change how it prices markets, runs its RG program, or evaluates promos. The primitives sit alongside those systems and receipt what they already do.

Pick a surface. Pick a policy pack. The dial decides.

Same receipt trail, different policy pack, stricter decision. The needle can ratchet up — it can never be talked back down. That's not a promise, it's the mechanism: strictest wins.

The recoverability lever

Drag the handle from “still stoppable” to “evidence-only final” and watch the window physically close. Hive records which window applied at every step — and never markets a recoverability the rail doesn't support. That's the exact posture the UKGC asked for.

The receipt never over-claims which window applies.

No integration. No data leaves FanDuel infrastructure to try it.

The demo below sends a synthetic RG-intervention receipt and gets back an Ed25519-signed proof. Nothing in this request touches real player data — the shape is illustrative. Anyone inside FanDuel can run this on their laptop in under a minute.

curl https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/receipt-relay/health

# Sign an RG intervention receipt (illustrative — no player data)
curl -X POST https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/receipt-relay/event \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "external_system":"fanduel_illustrative",
    "action":"rg_intervention_shown",
    "subject":"deposit_limit_prompt",
    "actor":{"type":"policy_engine","id":"rg-marker-of-harm-v3"},
    "intent":{"user_ref":"account_placeholder_0001","intervention":"deposit_limit_prompt","policy_version":"rg-2026-06","trigger":"velocity_score_threshold"},
    "evidence":[
      {"mode":"observed","note":"prompt rendered client-side and dismissed within 2s"}
    ]
  }'

curl -X POST https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/protected-flow/assess \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "receipts":[/* rg receipt from step 2 */],
    "policy_pack":"strict_bank",
    "declared_exposure_usd": 250.00
  }'

curl https://receipts.thehiveryiq.com/v1/protected-flow/evidence/{group_id}/export

Every state named. Every window honest.

The lever above is the same taxonomy in words. Each state names the window that actually exists — and the receipt records which window applied at each step, so the after-the-fact reconstruction is signed, not narrated.

• 1Pre-broadcast stoppable. The bet has not been placed. The withdrawal has not been submitted. The promo has not been credited. The intervention still fits inside the window where the system can stop, revoke, or reroute the action.pre_broadcast_stoppable
• 2Escrow or hold available. The action has been captured but not committed — a KYC hold on a withdrawal, a pending trade in a prediction market, a promo credited but not yet expired. The system can still release, revoke, or convert to evidence-only.escrow_hold_available
• 3Issuer freeze if integrated. Where FanDuel's payment processor, banking partner, or prediction-market clearer supports freezes or claw-backs, that path is available and receipted. Never claimed on rails that don't support it.issuer_freeze_if_integrated
• 4Counter-transfer recoverable. The action can't be undone but can be offset — a refund, a promotional make-good, a settled-trade credit, an RG-driven bonus reversal. The counter-flow itself gets its own signed receipt.counter_transfer_recoverable
• 5Evidence-only final. The bet settled. The prediction-market trade cleared. The withdrawal completed. The action can no longer be reversed by anyone. Hive doesn't pretend otherwise — it proves what happened, when, and on what evidence.evidence_only_final

Three weeks. No announcement. One forwardable artifact.

The most useful thing Hive can do in a company under internal pressure is not to arrive as a marketing partnership. It's to arrive as an infrastructure layer that turns an internal review into a report the champion forwards — without defending a new vendor relationship first.

FanDuel could be the first US sportsbook where every consequential action is independently receipted, provable, and exportable

Sportsbooks have programmable pricing, programmable promos, programmable RG. What no US sportsbook has yet is a signed, third-party-verifiable proof trail across all of them at once. The category is not “more compliance software.” It's independent proof-of-action — the layer regulators, courts, integrity partners, and the market are all converging on at the same time.