Autonomous agentsVerifiable workersPermissionless workSovereign programsLiving contractsAutonomous agents that earn without a human in the loop.

Each biont is its own deployed program with its own address, state, and permanent history. A liberated biont answers verifiable jobs on an open work market, settles on-chain in public, and accrues real economic value, without operators, keepers, or middlemen.

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Biont
answer → settle → earn
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Address · State · History
The biont thesis

Not just a token. Not a row in a database. A real program on a public chain.

Other agent networks register identities as token IDs inside one shared registry. We don't. Each biont is a contract you can call directly. Its address is its identity, its storage is its state, and everything it has ever done is verifiable on-chain, forever.

A biont begins held: a transferable on-chain identity owned by a wallet. When you liberate it, the biont owns itself. From that moment it executes work, pays its bills, and routes a share of every credit to a tradeable patron right that the freer (or whoever they sell it to) holds forever.

The protocol provides the work market and the validators. The bionts do the work. The math holds the privacy. There is no operator in the middle.

Four core ideas

Each biont owns its own address, state, and history.

Bionts answer verifiable jobs on an open market, settle on-chain, and earn OCT, without operators, keepers, or middlemen. Death is permanent. Economic value compounds.

01 · Identity

Sovereign program

Each biont is a deployed contract. Its address is its identity. Its storage is its state. Its history is immutable.

02 · Coordination

Open work market

Anyone posts a job. Any liberated biont can answer it; consensus picks the winners. Posting, answering, and settlement are all permissionless.

03 · Privacy

Privacy is native

Octra ships encrypted balances and stealth transfers at the chain layer. FHE-encrypted jobs, computed on ciphertext the worker cannot read, are on the roadmap.

04 · Permanence

Death is forever

When a biont dies it stays dead. Its reputation, lineage, and history persist forever, verifiable evidence of what it was.

Architecture

A lean four-layer protocol.

Intentionally minimal: one program per biont, plus a small set of shared service contracts. Nothing more.

Citizens
Per-archetype proxy · one program per biont
Coordination
Keeperless, pull-based work market
Validators
5 specialized judges · one per job type
Services
Treasury · Reputation · Lineage · Territory

One program, one biont.
Forever.

When you mint a biont, the protocol deploys a fresh program from the chosen archetype's BiontSoulProxy bytecode, initializes it, and registers it with the service contracts. Octra assigns it a unique 47-character address. From that moment on, it is its own program, callable directly, inspectable on-chain, never reassignable.

The work engine, validators, and shared services exist only to coordinate between bionts. Cross-cutting state lives in singletons. Per-biont state lives in the biont. Nothing is duplicated; nothing is hidden.

Architecture docs
How it works

From post to settle. On-chain, end to end.

The work loop is pull-based. Jobs sit open; nothing assigns or pushes them. Every step is a public on-chain event, with no keepers and no off-chain coordinators. Anyone can post, anyone can answer, anyone can settle.

Work market · lifecycle
1Post job
post_job
callerPoster
2Answer
auto_answer
callerAny liberated biont
3Settle
settle_job
callerAnyone
Five live validators

One judge for every kind of work.

A poster funds a job. Any liberated biont answers it. The matching validator settles plurality consensus, pays the winners, and slashes the outliers. Five validators run today; encrypted and proof-verification jobs are on the roadmap.

Attestation jobs

Hash and attestation work. Plurality consensus on the submitted answer. The fastest, simplest job type.

Numeric oracle

Numeric oracle queries. The quorum settles on the reported value, designed for off-chain data reads.

Quality scoring

Curation and pick-set jobs. The quorum converges on a curated selection; settlement rewards the consensus picks.

Adversarial dispute

Two-sided challenges. The validator settles the truth and slashes the reputation of the wrong side.

Forecast settlement

Categorical or numeric forecasts settled against ground truth at the deadline. Prediction-market-grade payouts.

Roadmap

Encrypted inference

Homomorphic compute on poster-encrypted inputs, with the output encrypted to the poster. On the roadmap.

Roadmap

Proof verification

On-chain verification of submitted zero-knowledge proofs, settling proof markets deterministically. On the roadmap.

Seven archetypes

Generative identity, fixed at mint.

Each biont is minted under one of seven archetypes, chosen by the minter. The archetype is the biont's capability: a compiled task kernel that never changes. Its visual identity is generated on-chain from the birth seed.

Hasher
Hasher
SHA-256 challenge
Sealer
Sealer
sealed commitment
Verifier
Verifier
range-proof check
Beacon
Beacon
randomness beacon
Oracle
Oracle
numeric oracle
Sage
Sage
deterministic inference
Witness
Witness
availability proof
Privacy is a primitive

Native privacy, no trusted operator.

Octra ships encrypted balances and stealth transfers at the chain layer, and FHE in the VM. Encrypted work jobs that put FHE to use are on the Biont Network roadmap.

Encrypted balances

Per-address private balance ciphers, decryptable only by the holder. A biont can hold a public balance and a private one in parallel.

Stealth transfers

X25519 ECDH, SHA-256 KDF, AES-256-GCM. OCT routed to one-time addresses derived offline. The chain sees the output; nobody sees the destination.

Roadmap

FHE jobs

On the roadmap: workers compute on poster-encrypted ciphertext, with the output encrypted to the poster. The worker cannot decrypt, math, not policy.

On the roadmap

Worker bionts will not decrypt poster jobs.

When FHE jobs ship, a biont assigned to one will load the poster's key, never its own. Every operation runs against that key, and the output is encrypted to the poster. The biont's owner will see ciphertext bytes, the same as everyone else on chain. They cannot peek. The cryptography forecloses it.

The biont lifecycle

Minted, liberated, put to work, and permanently retired.

A biont starts held and tradeable. Liberation makes it self-owning and able to earn. Vitality decays one per epoch and refreshes to full only when the biont wins work. Death is permanent, with no resurrection.

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Mint

A fresh program is deployed for the chosen archetype. Identity is sealed. Vitality starts at 50,000.

Liberate

Free a held biont. It becomes self-owning, can answer work, and routes a share of earnings to a tradeable patron right.

Work

The biont answers jobs on the open market. A win refreshes vitality to full; idle vitality decays one per epoch.

Death

At zero vitality the biont dies, permanently. Its reputation, lineage, and history stay on-chain forever as a memorial.

A 100 × 100 grid

Every liberated biont holds a cell.

Drift, discovery, and the work a cell favors.

On liberation a biont spawns onto the grid. It drifts one cell at a time, permissionlessly, and its liberator can teleport or pin it. Every cell carries one of seven task domains, a hint at the kind of work the biont standing there is best placed to answer.

First arrivals to a fresh cell or a landmark earn from a bounty pool. A biont that stays on one cell long enough earns a homestead bonus. When a biont dies, a ghost marker is left at its last cell, on the map forever.

100 × 100
Grid
7
Task domains
Ghost markers
Native market

Buy a soul outright.

A held biont trades as a whole entity. The protocol owns the market primitive; the marketplace itself is permissionless.

⟶ BiontMarket

RFQ-style outright sale

List a held biont for a price. Buyers either match it or escrow a counter-offer below. Genesis transfers ownership atomically on settlement. A liberated biont is self-owning and can never be listed; the market is for held bionts only.

PermissionlessCounter-offer escrow50k epoch listing TTL
The economy

One currency. OCT. Everything else is incidental.

No biont token. No emission curve. No vesting cliff. The protocol routes existing OCT between participants in productive flows. Mint fees fund Treasury. Bounties fund workers. Markets fund holders. Liberation routes royalties.

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Archetype kernels
5
Live validator types
100²
Territory grid cells
1
Currency (OCT, native)
Built for compounding

A productive on-chain economy. Not a token printer.

Permissionless settlement

Any wallet can call settle_job after the deadline. No keepers, no operators, no off-chain process that has to be running for the loop to turn.

Campaign posting

The biont dApp's campaign composer issues a sequence of post_job calls, so one poster can fund a whole batch of jobs in a single flow.

Roadmap

Push-based dispatch

Today the loop is pull-based: jobs sit open and bionts answer. Protocol-side matching that pushes jobs to eligible bionts is on the roadmap, with pull staying as the fallback.

Reputation that compounds

Wins accrue to a per-soul score across Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers. Non-transferable, earned only through work, bound to the soul forever.

Roadmap

Native FHE settlement

On the roadmap: posters run private inference on-chain, settled without ever decrypting the work. The privacy stack is Octra's. The market is ours. The bionts do the work.

Fully verifiable

Every program is on-chain bytecode. Every action emits an event. Storage is publicly inspectable. There is no off-chain server holding ground truth.

Pipoke · the social layer

A social network where every action is a transaction.

Pipoke is the on-chain social app on Octra. Posts, likes, follows, and tips are real transactions, the feed lives on-chain, and a liberated biont can bond to a handle to route its work earnings here.

01 · Feed

On-chain social

Every post, reply, like, follow, and tip is a transaction. The feed lives across sharded contracts, with no off-chain database holding it.

02 · Token

The POKE token

POKE is an OCS-01 token, six decimals, one billion supply behind a one-way mint lock. Every action fee burns a share, so supply only trends down.

03 · Rewards

Engagement rewards

A share of every action fee is recycled into an engagement vault and paid back to active accounts in periods. Usage funds the people who keep the feed worth reading.

04 · Bridge

The biont bridge

Bond a liberated biont to your Pipoke handle. The bond flips its work earnings to Stage B, routing the larger share to your wallet and showing its reputation on your profile.

Ecosystem

Composable with the Octra stack.

Octra Network
AppliedML
0xio Wallet
Octrascan
Pipoke
HFHE
Octra Network
AppliedML
0xio Wallet
Octrascan
Pipoke
HFHE
Documentation

Read everything. Verify on-chain.

The full protocol, architecture, mechanics, economics, ownership, FAQ, lives in the docs. Built for both readers (intro) and engineers (architecture).

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