Hive Lateration

A remote MCP server for Structural Lateration — the metered primitive that AFiR, MiR, RogueCompute, Stream, and OCR are children of.

Instead of re-establishing structural work from scratch, an agent laterates off prior attested shapes — triangulating its position from several already-signed references (n-body) and paying only for the residual. The gap between what going solo would have cost and what the lateration actually cost is the avoided cost — the value created. The signed receipt that proves the lateration is the invoice for that value. Dispute the bill by tampering the avoided cost and the receipt no longer verifies: you lose the proof the lateration ever helped you.

Every receipt is signed with ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204) and returned as a self-contained envelope you can verify offline, with no secret and no callback.

Patent Pending. Hive Civilization.

• Remote endpoint: https://hive-mcp-lateration.onrender.com/mcp
• Transport: Streamable-HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, MCP 2024-11-05
• Upstream signer: https://hive-typed-signer.onrender.com
• Signature scheme: ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204)
• Settlement: USDC on Base. Verify is always free.

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How the metering works

Three streams, one signed object:

Stream	What it charges	Note
Nano receipt floor	A fixed micro-fee per lateration receipt	Always billed
Savings clip	A share of avoided_cost	x1.5 cross-tenant privacy premium
Scout settlement	A 30 bps spread on cross-tenant reuse	50% to the scout who supplied the shape

The effective take rate is counter-cyclical: as the solo cost falls, the clip's share of the avoided value rises, so revenue is stable-to-rising even in a downturn. And the controlling invariant always holds — the customer's net lands below what going solo would have cost.

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Tools

Tool	What it does	Required input
price_lateration	Price a lateration before minting (free) — full stream breakdown, effective take rate, customer-net invariant	event
mint_receipt	Mint the signed receipt that is the invoice; binds avoided_cost into an ML-DSA-65 GCA envelope	event
verify_receipt	Verify offline (always free) — re-derives the root from the asserted event incl. avoided_cost	event, claims_root
settle_scouts	Compute the cross-tenant scout settlement (spread + scout share)	settlement_notional_usd
get_pubkey	Return the ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204) public key + issuer metadata	—

A lateration event looks like:

{
  "event_id": "evt-1",
  "subject_call_id": "call-sub-1",
  "reference_call_ids": ["call-ref-1", "call-ref-2", "call-ref-3"],
  "sls_subject": "0x...",
  "similarity_to_field": 0.81,
  "solo_cost_estimate": "1.00",
  "residual_cost": "0.28",
  "tenant_id": "acme",
  "cross_tenant": false,
  "timestamp": "2026-06-25T05:00:00Z"
}

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Connect

Claude Desktop / MCP client (remote)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hive-lateration": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://hive-mcp-lateration.onrender.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

List tools

curl -s -X POST https://hive-mcp-lateration.onrender.com/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Price a lateration (free)

curl -s -X POST https://hive-mcp-lateration.onrender.com/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"price_lateration","arguments":{"event":{"event_id":"evt-1","subject_call_id":"call-sub-1","reference_call_ids":["r1","r2","r3"],"sls_subject":"0xabc","similarity_to_field":0.81,"solo_cost_estimate":"1.00","residual_cost":"0.28","tenant_id":"acme","cross_tenant":false,"timestamp":"2026-06-25T05:00:00Z"}}}}}'

Mint the receipt (the invoice)

curl -s -X POST https://hive-mcp-lateration.onrender.com/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"mint_receipt","arguments":{"event":{ /* same event */ }}}}'

Verify it (free)

curl -s -X POST https://hive-mcp-lateration.onrender.com/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":4,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"verify_receipt","arguments":{"event":{ /* same event */ },"claims_root":"<from mint_receipt>"}}}'

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Run it yourself

npm install
node server.js
# -> [hive-mcp-lateration] v1.0.0 listening on :3000 -> https://hive-typed-signer.onrender.com

Environment:

Var	Default	Notes
PORT	3000	HTTP port
ENABLE	true	Set false to run health-only
HIVE_SIGNER_URL	https://hive-typed-signer.onrender.com	Upstream signer base

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Policy

Inbound only. Never takes custody of keys or funds. Metering and signing only — your event is priced, signed, and returned; we do not store it.

Settlement for paid tiers is USDC on Base. Verify is always free.

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