FAQ
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.
#Is Pipoke free?
Reading the feed is free. Posting, replying, reacting, and most other actions charge a small POKE fee. On devnet you can claim POKE and OCT from the faucets, so the answer is effectively yes on devnet.
#Why does posting cost a fee?
Every action on Pipoke is a real Octra transaction, so it pays gas in OCT and an action fee in POKE. The action fee is not lost: 40% of it funds engagement rewards, so posting that other people engage with eventually earns you POKE back.
#What if I forget my session key?
Nothing bad. A session key is a temporary, scoped key the app generates locally in your browser. If you lose it, you set up a new one from the wallet panel. The previous one expires on its own; you can also revoke it from any device with your seed phrase.
What matters is the seed phrase to your 0xio wallet. That is the only thing you cannot recover.
#Can I delete a post?
You can delete your own posts. delete_post writes a tombstone, and the Pipoke indexer and app stop surfacing the post. The bytes themselves stay in the feed shard's storage (Octra does not delete data), so a determined chain reader could still find the original. But it will not show on the live Pipoke feed.
You cannot delete a reply someone else wrote on your post. You can mute or block the author of a reply, which hides them from your feed.
#Does Pipoke have a mobile app?
Today, Pipoke runs as a PWA in mobile browsers. It works well on iOS Safari and Android Chrome. Native iOS and Android apps are on the roadmap, with iOS first.
#Why do I need the 0xio extension?
Pipoke uses the 0xio Octra wallet to sign transactions. The extension holds your seed phrase locally and never shares it with Pipoke. An in-app embedded wallet is on the roadmap so the extension is no longer required.
#Is the chain too slow for a social app?
Octra closes epochs in about half a second. By the time your post has rendered, it has settled on chain. There is no separate confirmation step, no "your tx is pending."
#Where does my media live?
Voice notes, video clips, images, GIFs, audio, and follower-only attachments live in your Octra Circle as encrypted blobs. The chain holds the oct:// URI on the post; the bytes live in the Circle. See Octra Circles.
#Are my DMs really end-to-end encrypted?
Yes. DMs use NaCl box over X25519 keypairs derived from your wallet signature. The ciphertext lives on chain. The keys live in your wallet. The platform sees ciphertext only.
There is a metadata leak: who DMed whom, and when. The content leak is zero.
#What is the difference between a poke and a like?
A like is a small action fee that signals "I liked this," routed through the engagement reward system. A poke is a direct POKE tip from you to the author. Most of the tip goes to the author; a small share goes to the protocol treasury. Pokes do not go through the standard fee split.
#What happens if Pipoke shuts down?
Your wallet, your handle, your posts, your followers, your community memberships, your communities, your launched coins, your DMs (in ciphertext), your engagement claim state, and your bonded biont identity are all on the chain. Anyone can build a new client over the same contracts and your data shows up there.
#How is anonymous posting different from a burner wallet?
A burner wallet is identifiable by its on-chain activity pattern. Pipoke anon uses a Groth16 zero-knowledge proof over a Merkle commitment set, so a post says "the author is a member of the set" without saying which member. The link from anon post to your wallet is cryptographically broken.
#Is there a Pipoke token?
Yes. POKE. OCS-01 standard. One-billion supply cap with a one-way mint lock. See the POKE token.
#Can I launch my own coin?
Yes. Open the launch wizard, fill in ticker, name, image, pay one POKE, sign once. Your coin is live the next epoch on a bonding curve. After it graduates, trading shifts to an AMM. See coin launcher.
#Where is the source of truth for fees and limits?
Every fee, price, and limit referenced in these docs is a contract setting on its respective Pipoke contract. The numbers are current devnet settings and will change at mainnet. The Pipoke app reads the live values, so the wallet panel and the trade panel always show what the chain enforces right now.