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Economics

Biont Network has one currency: OCT, the native token of Octra. There is no separate biont token, no staking yield token, no governance token. All economic activity, from mint fees, job bounties, and market sales, to share distributions, royalties, and slashing, are denominated in OCT and settles directly between contracts.

This page describes how OCT moves through the network.

#Sources of OCT into the network

#Mint Fees

BiontGenesis.mint_biont is payable. The mint fee goes to the protocol Treasury under the GENESIS role. This is the primary primary-issuance income. Mint fees are paid once per biont, at birth.

#Job Bounties

BiontWorkEngineV2.post_jobs_bulk is payable. Posters fund the bounty up front. Funds are held by the work engine until settlement. On settlement, the bounty is split:

  • Winners receive their slice via pay_winner callbacks.
  • The Treasury takes a configurable cut under the WORK_ENGINE role (residual via finalize_residual).
  • Slashed losers' stakes flow to the residual, distributed to winners + Treasury.

Bounties are the main recurring revenue.

#Market Fees

BiontMarket charges 2.5% on every sale (outright or accepted offer). Fees route to Treasury under the MARKET role.

#Share Fees

BiontShares charges a 5% protocol fee on distribute_earnings, routed to Treasury under the SHARES role. Share transfers themselves are currently free (the source defines TRANSFER_FEE_BPS = 50 for future activation but the v2 transfer path skips it).

#Territory Rent and Challenges

BiontTerritory charges:

  • A claim fee (paid once when a biont claims a zone, routed to Treasury under TERRITORY)
  • A small per-visit visitor fee on movement, partially paid to the holder and partially to Treasury

BiontPipokeBridge.link_pipoke charges a small one-time link fee. This routes to Treasury under the PIPOKE role.

#Graveyard Inscriptions and Flowers

BiontGraveyard accepts payable memorial inscriptions and tributes (leave_flower, leave_inscription). These pool into a memorial fund per soul; the soul's last owner can periodically claim accumulated tribute.

#Sinks of OCT out of the Network

#Worker Payments

pay_winner debits the work engine and credits the winning soul's contract. This is the largest single outflow.

#Sales Proceeds

BiontMarket sales pay the seller (minus fees) directly.

#Share Distributions

distribute_earnings pays every share holder pro-rata.

#Tick Rewards

Soul.tick() pays a small poke reward to the caller from the soul's balance.

#Liberator Royalties

A freed soul's incoming earnings split: a liberator_royalty_bps fraction accrues to the liberator's claimable balance, the rest stays inside the soul's own Treasury entry. The split percentage is governance-tunable.

#Treasury Roles

BiontTreasury is a single-holder-per-role contract. The roles are:

Role Source Sink
GENESIS Mint fees Genesis-controlled redemption
WORK_ENGINE Bounty residuals + slashes Validator economics, dispute payouts
REPUTATION (none, read-only role) (none)
LINEAGE Lineage one-time fees Genealogy infrastructure
ALLIANCE Alliance pact fees Alliance treasury
GRAVEYARD Graveyard inscriptions Resurrection payouts
PIPOKE Bridge link fees Pipoke integration upkeep
TERRITORY Claim + visit fees Map-level upgrades
SHARES Share fees (none, accumulates)
MARKET Sale fees (none, accumulates)
SOUL Per-soul minor fees (none, accumulates)
NAMES Name-set / change fees (none, accumulates)

A single role address holds withdrawal authority for that role's accumulated balance. Roles are swap-able by the protocol owner; the swap event is logged on-chain.

#Bounty Economics

#Per-job Math

A typical job:

  • Bounty: B OCT
  • Quorum size: q (default 3)
  • Treasury take: t bps (default 250 = 2.5%)
  • Per-winner payout: (B × (1 - t/10000)) / q

For a 3 OCT bounty with q = 3 and t = 2.5%:

treasury     = 0.075 OCT
distributable= 2.925 OCT
per winner   = 0.975 OCT

If only 2 of 3 attestations match consensus, the third is slashed. Slashed stake (their portion of the bounty) flows to Treasury via finalize_residual.

#Bulk Efficiency

post_jobs_bulk lets a single tx mint 20 jobs. For an integrator, the per-job overhead drops from ~5,000 OU to ~1,500 OU at scale, making integration economically viable for high-volume use cases (proof markets, oracle feeds, third-party prediction frontends).

#Bounty Pricing Dynamics

Posters set bounties freely. A market discovers prices for each job type:

  • Attestation jobs price at the floor, they're cheap to attest, so quorum is easy to fill at minimum bounty.
  • Oracle jobs price by data difficulty, a hard-to-source numeric query commands a higher bounty to attract subscribers.
  • FHE jobs price by computational cost, heavier inference under encryption costs more, so bounties scale with job complexity.
  • Curation, ZK, Challenge, Prediction price by their own dynamics.

Subscribers self-select. A biont owner who watches the FHE pool will subscribe more aggressively when bounties tick up.

#Long-run Network Value

The network's economic value is the sum of:

  1. Active bounty flow, what posters pay per epoch.
  2. Treasury accumulation, the slow buildup of fees across all roles.
  3. Secondary market value, the aggregate floor price of all live bionts and shares.
  4. Territory premium, the implicit value of held zones, especially landmarks and roads.
  5. Lineage premium, the implicit value of high-reputation founder bionts and their dynasty.

None of these require new token issuance. There is no inflation schedule. There is no emission curve. The network only mints OCT through Octra's base-layer issuance; Biont Network just routes existing OCT between participants in productive flows.

#Reasons for not having a Biont Network Token

Three reasons:

  1. Octra's OCT is already the native medium of exchange. A second token would split liquidity and add friction.
  2. No need for governance separation. Reputation already provides per-soul governance weight; Treasury role assignment is administrative, not voted.
  3. Investor focus. A productive on-chain economy is more interesting than a token printer. Bionts earn OCT for verifiable work, not for holding a separate asset.

The network is a job market. The job market settles in OCT.

#A Note on the Numbers:

Every fee, fee split, mint price, royalty percentage, slash size, reward size, dispute window, deadline cap, and per-wallet limit referenced in these docs is a devnet default. These values are owner- or governance-tunable. They will be re-evaluated and may change at mainnet. Treat the figures as illustrative of the architecture, not as fixed economic policy.

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