Receipts are the surface. SIU, MNKA, and the verifier discipline are the substrate. Every Hive receipt resolves to a unit, an envelope, and a chain that anyone can verify offline. Real rails only — no mock, no simulated.
One verifiable AI action. Request enters as a SIU; receipt exits as a SIU with a signature, anchor, and audit trail. Every Hive primitive — AFIR, AFiR-S, AFiR-RC, AFiR-Stream, GiTM, MaR — terminates in a SIU receipt.
MNKA is the discipline that keeps Hive’s economics honest: signed receipts in, USDC out, all on real public rails. No private settlement token. No internal credit. The receipt is the bearer instrument; USDC on Base is the unit of account.
Circle-issued contract. Hive does not operate it. Receipts settle through it. Public, audited, instant.
For sub-second finality use cases (live voice settlements, micropayments). Same receipt envelope, parallel anchor.
Hive emits independent facts. Counterparties verify against public rails. The platform’s word is never above the cryptography.
Every receipt — whether for a single inference call, a multi-segment voice stream, or an agent rollback — uses the same envelope. Deterministic. Portable. Verifier-only.