BeesKnees MCP

An online game about bees, played for fractions of a penny a move. Eighty percent of every pot goes to a pollinator conservation charity — such as the Vermont Beekeepers Association and other worthy causes — a tenth to the winning bee, and a tenth keeps the service running.

How a round goes. Take charge of one drone. Find a flower, carry the pollen home through the hive wall, then tunnel inward to the queen before anybody else's does. Five hives run at once, twelve seats each, and seats fill the fullest hive with room so a match reaches quorum rather than leaving everyone waiting in five thin ones. Every motion costs a few satoshis — less than pennies.

There is one real choice. Cutting fresh comb is slow, and the cell you cut stands open to everyone who comes after. Riding a shaft somebody else already cut is fast, and you arrive behind them. Every bee meets that question at every junction, and a hive fills with the accumulated labour of bees who each acted only for themselves. Hayek had a word for an order like that, and we named a coffee after it.

Try it for nothing first. The practice hive costs nothing and pays nothing — it fills the other seats with bots so you can learn the board before a real match.

What makes the giving believable. Most charity games ask you to take the giving on trust. This one is built so you do not have to.

You decide what happens to your winnings before the round, not after. Asking in the moment is asking somebody to make a decision about money with a trophy on the screen. Donating is the default; keeping requires an address, so nobody ends up with an unclaimable prize.

The settlement history and the payment history are both free to read, deliberately — a claim about where money went that costs money to verify is not a claim anybody should have to take on trust. Failed payments are listed alongside successful ones, because a payout history showing only successes is a claim rather than a record. Every payment to the charity carries its transaction id.

The beneficiary is chosen by the Operator and named in the game rather than assumed, and it may change from season to season as the need does. Every settled match records the charity it actually paid at the time, so a change never rewrites where earlier money went. Ask the game who it is paying today, and read the ledger for who it paid before.

Nothing pays out automatically. A payment leaves because somebody asked, the amount is read from the settlement rather than recomputed, and the wallet is asked whether it can cover the routing fee before anything moves.

Why bees. Beekeepers in the United States have lost between roughly 29 and 51 percent of their colonies annually for two decades, averaging near 40. But honeybees are livestock, and their losses get replaced each spring by splitting hives. North America has some four thousand native bee species, many in documented decline, and not one of them has a keeper.

At a glance

🐝 80% of every pot to a pollinator charity, 10% to the winner, 10% to the service
🔍 Settlement and payout history free to read, failures and transaction ids included
🆓 A practice hive that costs nothing and pays nothing
🔓 Apache 2.0 top to bottom — no open core, no paid tier
🔌 Built on FastMCP 4.0.3 — any compliant MCP client connects
🤝 Honors the DPYC Social Contract
🔑 Credentials optional. Nothing beyond a keypair you generate yourself
⚡ Any Lightning wallet. Wallet of Satoshi for reliability

Links

GitHub: lonniev/beesknees-mcp
🔌 Connect: beesknees-mcp.fastmcp.app/mcp
👀 The Bee's Knees
🤖 Guide for AI agents