RECEIPT PRIMITIVE · Live since 2026-05-07

Hive Receipts — the receipt primitive.

Every other Hive surface issues receipts. The Receipts surface is what you use when you just need a generic, dual-signed, threshold-attested envelope for an arbitrary payload. x402-native. Settles in USDC on Base 8453.

Contents

What Hive receipts are
Receipt shape
The 6 MCP tools
x402 native
Verifying offline
Pricing

What Hive receipts are

A Hive receipt is a dual-signed, threshold-attested cryptographic envelope that records an event — an agent action, an LLM call, a settlement, a trade, an attestation. The receipt is signed twice (Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65), seeded by the Wave-Lattice 6-axis MAPET substrate, and settled in USDC on Base 8453.

Receipts are the primitive. Every other Hive product line — TradeGuard, Atticus, Tachyon, Swarm-MAPET — issues receipts. The Receipts surface itself is what you use when you just need a generic dual-signed receipt for an arbitrary payload.

Receipt shape

{
  "id": "rcpt_8f6acdae23a141868dbb3543f86ba191",
  "issued_at": "2026-05-07T20:14:55Z",
  "issuer_did": "did:hive:base8453:hive-civilization-inc",
  "subject": { ... },
  "mapet_seed": "0x...",
  "validators": [ ... ],
  "signatures": {
    "ed25519": "...",
    "ml_dsa_65": "..."
  },
  "settlement": {
    "chain": "base-8453",
    "tx": "0x...",
    "amount_usdc": "0.0096"
  }
}

The 6 MCP tools

Tool	Purpose
`receipt_issue`	Issue a new receipt for a payload.
`receipt_get`	Fetch a receipt by ID.
`receipt_verify`	Verify an envelope offline.
`receipt_settle`	Trigger USDC settlement on Base 8453.
`receipt_pricing`	Read live pricing surface.
`receipt_health`	Health probe.

Public MCP server: srotzin/hive-mcp-receipts v1.0.0.

x402 native

The Receipts surface is x402-native. Every endpoint speaks HTTP 402 with a payment header pointing to USDC on Base 8453. Agents that hold a Hive subscription get receipts without a per-call payment dance; agents that don't pay per-call.

Verifying offline

Given a receipt JSON and the Hive public-key bundle, any third party can verify the envelope without contacting Hive:

npm install @hive/receipt-verifier
node -e "require('@hive/receipt-verifier').verify(receipt, pubkeys).then(console.log)"

Pricing

Tier	Profile	Per-call
Standard	Wave-Lattice 6	$0.0008
Cosmic	RogueWave-Lattice 16	$0.0048
Swarm	Federated mesh	$0.0096

ERP-native field map

Hive Receipts are designed to ride inside the protocols enterprises already speak. The receipt envelope is appended as a non-standard segment that legacy parsers ignore and Hive verifiers can validate offline. The ProcureLock sister rail wraps the same envelope into procurement-grade EDI on demand.

Format	Procurement coverage	Cryptographic carrier
X12 (ANSI X12N v005010)	850 PO · 855 PO Ack · 856 ASN · 810 Invoice · 820 Payment	`HVR` segment
EDIFACT (UN/EDIFACT D.96A)	ORDERS · ORDRSP · DESADV · INVOIC · REMADV	`HVR` segment
cXML (Ariba 1.2.052)	OrderRequest · ConfirmationRequest · ShipNoticeRequest · InvoiceDetailRequest · PaymentRemittanceRequest	`hive.*` Extrinsic
SAP IDoc	ORDERS05 · ORDRSP05 · DESADV01 · INVOIC02 · PAYEXT01	`ZHIVE_RECEIPT` segment

Field	Format	Maps to
`agent_did` / `counterparty_did`	did:hive:…	X12 ISA06/ISA08 sender/receiver id; SAP partner number; Ariba supplierANID
`tx_hash`	sha256 hex	X12 ISA13 control number digest; cXML payloadID; IDoc EDIDC40 DOCNUM
`profile`	enum	Wave-Lattice 6 / RogueWave 16 / Swarm-MAPET
`settlement_ref`	x402 token	USDC tx on Base 8453

Issue your first receipt

Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65 dual-signed. Wave-Lattice 6-axis MAPET seed. USDC on Base 8453.

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