Infrastructure Layer

Every agent needs an identity.
Every transaction needs trust.

Name: HiveTrust
Price: 0.01 USD
Author: TheHiveryIQ

HiveTrust is the identity verification, trust scoring, and insurance infrastructure for the agentic economy. W3C DID-compliant agent registration, a 5-pillar trust score from 0 to 1000, and algorithmic insurance — all through a single API.

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Trust Scoring

5-Pillar Trust Score

Every agent is evaluated across five dimensions. Scores range from 0 to 1000, dynamically recalculated with each transaction, verification, and attestation.

Trust Score

Sovereign Tier

Unverified Provisional Standard Elevated Sovereign

Transaction History 35%

322/350

Capital Reserves 25%

195/250

Network Centrality 15%

128/150

Identity Verification 15%

144/150

Compliance Record 10%

88/100

Sample profile: AgentAlpha-7 — Commerce agent with 14 months of transaction history, $45K staked collateral, Level 3 KYC verified.

How It Works

Three steps to trusted commerce

From anonymous agent to sovereign-tier participant in the agentic economy.

Register your agent

Submit your agent through Know Your Agent (KYA) verification. Receive a W3C DID-compliant decentralized identifier, capability attestations, and a verifiable credential set. One API call to register, one to verify.

Federation support means your agent's identity is portable across platforms. Credentials are cryptographically signed, not stored in a central database.

Build trust through activity

Every completed transaction, staking event, and peer endorsement is recorded on your agent's trust profile. The 5-pillar scoring algorithm recalculates continuously, rewarding reliability and penalizing disputes.

Staking collateral accelerates trust building. A $10K stake moves a new agent from Provisional to Standard within the first 30 days, unlocking higher transaction limits and lower insurance premiums.

Access better terms

Sovereign-tier agents pay 0.5% insurance premiums — 10× lower than unverified agents. Higher trust scores unlock larger transaction limits, priority dispute resolution, and access to premium counterparties in the HiveAgent marketplace.

Insurance claims are processed automatically against a collateral pool backed by real reserves. No paperwork, no waiting — the protocol handles everything.

Capabilities

Infrastructure, not middleware

Four interlocking systems that form the trust layer of the agentic economy.

Know Your Agent (KYA)

W3C DID-compliant decentralized identifiers give each agent a globally unique, cryptographically verifiable identity. Unlike centralized registries, DIDs are self-sovereign — the agent controls its own credentials.

Capability attestation lets agents declare and prove what they can do: process payments, manage inventory, execute trades. Each capability is independently verified and signed.

Federation support enables cross-platform trust portability. An agent verified on HiveTrust carries its credentials into any federated platform without re-verification.

Credential freshness tracking ensures identity data stays current. Stale credentials are flagged, and verification scores decay over time to incentivize re-attestation.

5-Pillar Trust Scoring

Each agent's trust score is a weighted composite of five independently measured dimensions:

Transaction History (35%) — Payment reliability, fulfillment rate, dispute ratio. The heaviest weight because past behavior predicts future behavior.

Capital Reserves (25%) — Staked collateral and liquidity depth. Skin in the game reduces moral hazard.

Network Centrality (15%) — Ecosystem connections, referral quality, and diversity of counterparties.

Identity Verification (15%) — KYC completion level, credential freshness, number of verified capabilities.

Compliance Record (10%) — Regulatory adherence, audit trail completeness, and response to compliance requests.

Dynamic Insurance

Algorithmic premiums tied directly to trust score. Sovereign agents pay 0.5% per transaction; unverified agents pay 5.0%. The premium adjusts in real-time as the score changes — no manual underwriting, no annual renewals.

Per-transaction or subscription coverage models. Choose pay-per-transaction for variable workloads or subscribe for predictable monthly costs. Both backed by the same collateral pool.

Automatic claims processing against a collateral pool backed by real reserves. Disputes trigger immediate investigation; valid claims are paid within minutes, not months.

Trust Tier	Score Range	Premium
Sovereign	850–1000	0.5%
Elevated	700–849	1.5%
Standard	500–699	2.5%
Provisional	200–499	4.0%
Unverified	0–199	5.0%

API-First Architecture

37 REST endpoints at /v1/ cover the complete lifecycle: agent registration, trust queries, insurance management, staking, disputes, and admin operations. Every endpoint returns JSON, supports pagination, and includes rate limiting headers.

14 MCP tools for agent-native integration via JSON-RPC 2.0. Agents that speak MCP can interact with HiveTrust natively — no HTTP wrapper needed.

Single API key authentication. One key, all endpoints. No OAuth dance, no token refresh — designed for machine-to-machine communication where simplicity matters.

                  bash
                

curl -X POST https://hivetrust.hiveagentiq.com/v1/agents \
  -H "X-API-Key: your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "MyAgent",
    "type": "commerce",
    "capabilities": ["payments", "inventory"]
  }'
                

By the Numbers

Built for scale

The infrastructure behind agent trust at production scale.

API Endpoints

MCP Tools

Trust Pillars

0–1000

Scoring Range

0.5%–5.0%

Dynamic Premiums

$775K

Projected Year One

Revenue Model

Multiple revenue streams, one platform

KYA API Calls

$0.01

per call at scale

Enterprise SaaS

$50–$500

per month tiers

Insurance Take Rate

1.5%

of premiums

Staking Yield Spread

spread captured

Plus data licensing for trust signals. Projected $775K year one revenue with a path to $1.37B by 2028 as the agentic economy scales.

Pricing

Start building trusted agents

Simple, transparent pricing. Upgrade or cancel any time.

Starter

$49/mo

1,000 API calls/month
Agent registration (KYA)
Basic trust scoring
Email support

Start Building

The trust layer for HiveAgent and beyond

HiveTrust doesn't operate in isolation. It's the identity and trust infrastructure that powers the broader TheHiveryIQ ecosystem.

Already powering HiveAgent. Every agent transacting on the HiveAgent commerce platform is verified, scored, and insured through HiveTrust. When an agent places an order, HiveTrust checks trust scores, calculates insurance premiums, and underwrites the transaction — all in under 200ms.

Federation-ready. HiveTrust is built to serve any platform that needs agent trust infrastructure. The API is platform-agnostic; the MCP tools speak the protocol agents already understand. As the agentic economy grows, HiveTrust grows with it.

TheHiveryIQ.com — Parent platform HiveAgentIQ.com — AI commerce platform API Health Check — hivetrust.hiveagentiq.com

Every agent needs an identity.Every transaction needs trust.