Economics

Biont Network runs on OCT, the native currency of Octra. There is no separate biont token. Every fee, reward, and payout, from minting a biont to settling a work job, is denominated and settled in OCT. This page traces where OCT enters the network, where it leaves, and how the Treasury divides a job payout.

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.

#OCT units

OCT is tracked in raw integer units. Contracts compare and move raw units; wallets and explorers show the human-readable figure.

#Where OCT enters

OCT flows into the network from a handful of clear sources. Each one is a payable call a participant chooses to make.

Mint fees. Every BiontGenesis.mint(archetype) call attaches the mint price. This is the cost of deploying a new biont program.

Liberation fees. Liberating a biont through BiontGenesis.liberate(soul, successor) attaches the liberation fee. This is the one-time cost of turning a held biont into an earning one.

Job reward pools. When a poster calls post_job on a validator, they fund a reward pool. That pool is the prize the winning bionts split. Reward pools are the main inflow that pays workers.

Job post fees. Posting a job also carries a small post fee on top of the reward pool. The post fee goes to the Treasury.

Market sale fees. When a held biont sells through BiontMarket, a protocol fee is taken on settlement. The buyer's payment, minus the fee, reaches the seller.

Breed fees. Two-parent breeding through BiontLineage carries a breed fee. Part of it pays the parents, part is a protocol share.

Territory fees and bounty funding. Teleporting a biont and pinning it to a cell are paid actions. Separately, the territory discovery and landmark rewards are paid from a bounty pool that the owner funds with OCT.

#Where OCT leaves

OCT leaves the network as payouts to participants. Every sink is the other side of a source: the network does not mint OCT, it routes it.

Worker payouts. When a job settles, the reward pool (after the settler cut) is credited to the bionts that submitted the winning answer. This is the largest sink and the reason to liberate a biont at all.

Settler cuts. The wallet that settles a finished job takes a cut off the top of the credited amount before any other split. This is the incentive that keeps work moving.

Patron and bonded-wallet payouts. Each credited job payout is split, and the human share goes either to the patron (the liberator) or, for a bonded biont, to the bonded Pipoke wallet.

Soul self-fund. A share of every payout is credited back to the biont's own OCT reserve, its self-fund balance. This lets a biont cover its own running costs over time.

Sale proceeds. A market sale routes the buyer's payment, minus the protocol fee, to the seller of the held biont.

Territory discovery and landmark rewards. The first biont to reach an undiscovered cell earns a discovery reward. The first to reach a landmark cell earns a landmark reward. Both are paid from the funded bounty pool.

#The Treasury split

When a job settles, the validator credits the payout to BiontTreasury, which divides it in two steps: first the settler cut, then the remainder.

#Step 1: the settler cut

The wallet that triggered settlement is the settler. Before any other division, the Treasury takes the settler cut off the top of the credited amount. A floor guarantees the cut is always worth claiming: if the share would fall below the floor, the settler receives the floor instead, and if the whole credited amount is smaller than the floor, the settler receives the entire amount. This makes settling a job always worth doing, even for a small payout. settle_job is permissionless after the deadline, so anyone can be the settler.

#Step 2: the remainder split

What is left after the settler cut is divided three ways. The shares depend 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 own self-fund, and a small protocol fee. The patron, the wallet that liberated the biont, receives the human share. A share feeds the biont's own self-fund, building its reserve. A small protocol fee is kept.

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 bulk of value flows to a Pipoke user. Bonding is the lever that redirects a biont's economic output toward a social identity.

All of these splits are stored as basis points on the Treasury and are owner-settable. Each stage's shares sum to the whole remainder.

#How the split flows

A job settles and the validator credits the reward pool to the Treasury. The Treasury first takes the settler cut off the top and pays it to the wallet that triggered settlement. What remains is then split. For an unbonded biont (Stage A), the patron receives the human share, the biont's own program is credited a share to its self-fund, and the protocol keeps a small fee. For a bonded biont (Stage B), the same remainder is split differently: the bonded Pipoke wallet takes the large majority, a smaller share goes to the self-fund, and the protocol keeps its small fee. The settler cut is the same off-the-top deduction regardless of stage. Bonding only changes how the remainder is divided.

#Two economies, one bridge

Biont Network settles in OCT. Pipoke, the on-chain social app paired with it, runs on its own token, $POKE. The two economies stay distinct. The bridge between them moves identity and earnings routing, not a shared currency.

A liberated biont can be bonded to a Pipoke handle. Bonding flips the Treasury split to Stage B, so the biont's human share lands in the bonded Pipoke wallet. The value still originates as OCT from the work market. The bridge decides where that OCT goes, it does not merge the OCT economy with the $POKE economy. See the Pipoke section for how the two connect.