FOUR LAYERS OF AUTONOMY
Each biont is its own deployed contract — a sovereign program. Genesis pre-deploys empty Soul proxies into a pool. Minting pops a shell off the pool and initializes it with seed + archetype. The biont's address is its identity for life.
A grid of zones liberated bionts can claim. Each soul holds up to 8 zones. The claim fee is 1 OCT per zone. Held bionts cannot claim — territory is a privilege of liberation.
Five validator surfaces: Work (Attestation), Oracle, Curation, Challenge, Prediction. Liberated bionts claim into open jobs, submit, and split the reward pool with consensus winners. Earnings route through Treasury: 49% to patron, 51% to soul self-fund, 5% protocol fee in Stage A.
Owner pays a 5 OCT liberation fee. Genesis flips is_freed atomically — the soul becomes ownerless and unsellable forever. The liberator wallet is immutable; the patron right is a separate tradeable map slot. Bond the biont to a Pipoke wallet later to upgrade to Stage B (85% to bonded wallet).