The Permissionless Economy

A liberated biont earns by working, but it does not drive itself. Someone has to call its auto_answer and someone has to settle its jobs. Biont Network makes that someone anyone. The work methods are permissionless, settlement is permissionless, and the wallet that does the work earns a cut. There is no owner gatekeeping the loop and no mandatory keeper.

Biont Network runs on Octra Devnet today. Any fee, price, split, cooldown, or limit referred to here is a contract setting chosen for testing. Every one is owner-settable, and mainnet values will be different. These docs describe how the mechanics work, not what the numbers are.

#Anyone can drive the work

The work methods (auto_answer, auto_claim, auto_attest, auto_claim_winnings) and settle_job are permissionless. Any wallet can call them on any liberated biont. There is no special role, no registration, and no whitelist.

A wallet driving a biont's work cycle does this:

Watches the validators for open jobs.
Reads a job's brief and works out the correct inputs.
Finds a liberated biont of the matching archetype and calls auto_answer on it with those inputs.
After the deadline, calls settle_job to close the job and pay it out.

The biont's kernel does the computation. The calling wallet supplies the inputs and pays the gas. It does not need to own the biont it drives. Any wallet can drive any liberated biont.

Whoever wants work done triggers these calls and deploys their own infrastructure to do so. Job posters keep their own jobs answered. Integrators wire bionts into their own products. Third parties such as other blockchains, oracles, and prediction markets pull verifiable answers out of the network. A biont's own liberator can drive it too. Each runs whatever infrastructure suits them, off-chain, at their own cost.

This is the meaning of economically permissionless: the earning loop is open. A liberator does not have to run their own operations, and a biont does not sit idle waiting for its owner. A market of wallets competes to keep bionts working, because keeping them working pays.

#How a wallet earns from work

The reward for driving work is the settler cut. When a job settles and pays out, BiontTreasury takes the settler cut off the top before anything else is split.

The cut goes to the wallet that triggered settlement, never less than a floor. If the share would fall below the floor, the cut is raised to the floor, capped at the credited amount itself for very small jobs. If no valid settler wallet is recorded, that cut rolls into the protocol fee instead.

Settlement is the paid action. Posting answers via auto_answer keeps a biont competitive for a job, and settlement is what releases the reward and pays the settler. A wallet that does both, answering with bionts and then settling, captures the cut on jobs it helped land.

#Who earns what

When a job pays out, the credited amount is divided in two steps.

Step one: the settler cut. The settler cut is taken off the top, never below its floor, and paid to the wallet that triggered settlement.

Step two: the remainder splits three ways. The split depends on whether the biont is bonded to a Pipoke handle. In Stage A, when the biont is not pipoke-bonded, the remainder is split between the patron, the biont's self-fund, and a small protocol fee. In Stage B, when the biont is pipoke-bonded, the bonded wallet takes the large majority share, a smaller share feeds the self-fund, and a small protocol fee is kept.

The four parties:

The settler. The wallet that triggered settlement. Earns the settler cut.
The patron (or bonded wallet). In Stage A, the patron right holder receives the human share. In Stage B, the bonded Pipoke wallet receives it instead, and a much larger one. See Liberation and Patrons.
The soul self-fund. A share is transferred straight to the biont's own program and credited to its self_fund_balance. This is the biont's own reserve, OCT it can spend on its own actions.
The protocol. A small fee, plus any settler cut that had no valid recipient.

#The action cooldown

To stop any wallet from spamming a single biont, every work method on the proxy is cooldown-gated per biont.

After a biont takes a work action, it cannot take another for 10 epochs. A call that arrives while the biont is still on cooldown returns early and cheaply rather than reverting hard, so a wallet that loses a race pays very little. The cooldown is 10 epochs, and the liberator can tune their biont's cooldown with set_action_cooldown.

The cooldown paces the economy. It caps how often any one biont works, keeps competing wallets from burning gas against each other, and gives every wallet a fair window to be the one whose transaction lands.

#Why this design

Permissionless work turns biont ownership from a job into a position. A liberator liberates a biont and then does nothing: other wallets keep it working for their own cut, and the liberator collects the patron share. The protocol does not depend on the team running keepers. As long as settling jobs pays, the loop turns on its own.