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The Biont Bridge

The bridge is what makes Pipoke and Biont Network two halves of one graph. It bonds a liberated biont to a Pipoke handle, and it is the path along which a biont's earnings reach a Pipoke user.

Pipoke runs on Octra Devnet today. Any fee, price, 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.

#What bonding does

A biont on Biont Network is a sovereign program with its own address. A Pipoke user is a handle on a wallet. Bonding ties one to the other: a liberated biont gets a Pipoke handle, and a Pipoke wallet gets a biont working for it.

Bonding is also an economic switch. Once a biont is bonded, the Biont Treasury sends the bulk of that biont's earnings to the bonded Pipoke wallet instead of to the patron. This is described on the Biont side as the Stage B earnings split. See the Biont social layer.

#Bonding a biont to a handle

The bond is set up on both sides, biont side first.

1. Biont side:   BiontBridge.set_bond(soul, pipoke_wallet)
2. Pipoke side:  PipokeBridge.link_biont_to_pipoke(soul, handle, memo)

Step 1 is signed on Biont Network by the biont's liberator and establishes the source of truth. Step 2 is signed by the Pipoke wallet from step 1.

What link_biont_to_pipoke verifies. Before it records the bond, PipokeBridge checks:

  • The soul is liberated on Biont Network. A held biont cannot be bonded.
  • The soul is already bonded on the biont side. The Biont side is the source of truth, and the Pipoke side will not get ahead of it.
  • The handle belongs to the calling wallet. The handle passed in must match the display name registered to the caller on PipokeCore.
  • The soul is not dead and not already bonded to another wallet, and the calling wallet is not already bonded to another soul.

A wallet bonds to one soul, and a soul bonds to one wallet.

Bonding is always a wallet signature. It routes real economic value, so it is never delegated to a session key.

#Keeping the two sides in sync

The biont side and the Pipoke side keep separate bond records. If a user unbonds on the biont side, the Pipoke side can be left stale, still showing the biont as bonded.

PipokeBridge fixes this with a permissionless sync. Anyone (the app, an indexer, any wallet) can call sync_unbond_from_biont(soul). It checks the biont side, confirms the biont is no longer bonded there, and then clears the Pipoke-side bond to match. Unbonding a biont from a Pipoke handle has a cooldown of 10,000 epochs. A view, is_synced_with_biont, lets the app detect drift and surface a sync prompt.

#How biont earnings reach Pipoke

A bonded biont earns OCT on Biont Network, and that OCT becomes spendable POKE in two steps.

Step one: the earnings route to the bonded wallet. While a biont is bonded, the Biont Treasury's Stage B split sends the bulk of each payout to the bonded Pipoke wallet. Earnings accrue as pending OCT in the Biont Treasury.

Step two: the user converts OCT to POKE. PipokeRewardsBridge exchanges OCT for POKE at a set rate. The conversion rate is an admin-set contract setting.

The conversion is a two-step user flow, which the app presents as a single click:

1. BiontTreasury.flush_pending(user)   ->  sends pending OCT to the user's wallet
2. PipokeRewardsBridge.convert_to_poke()  ->  user attaches that OCT, receives POKE

flush_pending pushes the user's pending OCT out of the Biont Treasury into their wallet. Then convert_to_poke is a payable call: the user attaches the OCT, the bridge computes POKE at the current rate, and transfers POKE back. The bridge keeps per-user totals (OCT in, POKE out, conversion count) so the app can show a "biont payouts received" figure.

This is the full path: a biont answers work jobs on Biont Network, earns OCT, the Stage B split routes that OCT to the bonded Pipoke wallet, and the rewards bridge turns it into POKE the user can spend on Pipoke.

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