docs: document pay-bond-invoice action and waiting-taker-bond status

src/SUMMARY.md

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 - [Take range sell order](./take_sell_range_order.md)
 - [Take buy order](./take_buy.md)
 - [Take range buy order](./take_buy_range_order.md)
+- [Pay bond invoice](./pay_bond_invoice.md)
 - [Seller pays hold invoice](./seller_pay_hold_invoice.md)
 - [Fiat sent](./fiatsent.md)
 - [Release](./release.md)

src/cancel.md

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 ]
 ```
 
+## Bond race during take
+
+A client that sent `take-buy` / `take-sell` and is waiting for [`pay-bond-invoice`](./pay_bond_invoice.md) may receive `Action::Canceled` instead — meaning another user paid their bond first on the same order (whichever bond locks first wins; see [pay bond invoice](./pay_bond_invoice.md)). Surface this clearly to the user, e.g. *"Order was taken by another user before you locked the bond."* Do not silently retry the take — the order may not be available anymore, and the supersede mechanism on the daemon side has already discarded the prior bond request.
+
 ## Cancel cooperatively
 
 A user can cancel an `active` order, but will need the counterparty to agree, let's look at an example where the seller initiates a cooperative cancellation:

src/message_suggestions_for_actions.md

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 - **pay-invoice:**  
   Please pay this hold invoice of `amount` Sats for `fiat_code` `fiat_amount` to start the operation. If you do not pay it within `expiration_seconds`, the trade will be canceled.
 
+- **pay-bond-invoice:**  
+  Please pay this **bond** hold invoice of `amount` Sats as a security deposit before the trade begins. The bond is separate from the trade escrow and is released when the trade completes normally. If you do not pay it within `expiration_seconds`, the take will be canceled — the order remains visible on the order book as `pending` and may be taken again by anyone.
+
 - **add-invoice:**  
   Please send me an invoice for `amount` satoshis equivalent to `fiat_code` `fiat_amount`. This is where I will send the funds upon trade completion. If you don’t provide the invoice within `expiration_seconds`, the trade will be canceled.
 

src/order_event.md

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 - `k` < Order type >: `sell` or `buy`. This specifies the type of transaction in terms of bitcoin. "sell" means selling bitcoin, while "buy" indicates buying bitcoin.
 - `f` < Currency >: The fiat asset being traded, using the [ISO 4217](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217) standard.
 - `s` < Status >: `pending`, `canceled`, `in-progress`, `success`, `expired`.
+
+  An order with `s = pending` may already be matched to a taker who is in the middle of paying their anti-abuse bond. It remains takeable in this window — another user may attempt the take, and whichever bond locks first wins (the prior taker is notified with `Action::Canceled`, see [Cancel](./cancel.md)). The internal daemon state that tracks this (`waiting-taker-bond`, visible only in DM payload echoes) is not part of NIP-69's four-bucket wire model. Clients **must not** gray out or hide a `pending` order from the local order-book view just because their user has initiated a take.
 - `amt` < Amount >: The amount of Bitcoin to be traded, the amount is defined in satoshis, if `0` means that the amount of satoshis will be obtained from a public API after the taker accepts the order.
 - `fa` < Fiat amount >: The fiat amount being traded, for range orders two values are expected, the minimum and maximum amount.
 - `pm` < Payment method >: The payment method used for the trade, if the order has multiple payment methods, they should be separated by a comma.

src/other_events.md

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 - `y`: Platform identifier tag values. Mostro publishes `"mostro"` and MAY include a second value with the Mostro instance name from settings.
 - `z`: The type of event.
 
+### Upcoming: anti-abuse bond tags
+
+A future Mostro release will publish bond-related tags in this event so clients can detect bond-enabled nodes ahead of a take. The tag set is still being finalized; at minimum it will include a `bond` tag with the value `enabled` or `disabled`. Additional tags describing the bond size policy (percentage, floor) may be added.
+
+Clients that take orders on a node advertising `bond` `enabled` should be prepared to handle the [`pay-bond-invoice`](./pay_bond_invoice.md) action and the `waiting-taker-bond` order status. Until this tag is finalized and shipped, clients should treat the absence of bond tags as "behaviour unknown" and surface a clear error if the node sends `pay-bond-invoice` to a take they cannot handle.
+
 ## Information about the Relays Where Events Are Published
 
 The operator of a Mostro instance decides which relays the events from that instance are published to. This information can be accessed in events [kind 10002](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/65.md), which are published by the Mostro instances.

src/pay_bond_invoice.md

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+# Pay bond invoice
+
+When the receiving Mostro node has the anti-abuse bond feature enabled, takers must lock a small Lightning hold invoice as a security deposit before the trade flow proceeds. Mostro asks for this payment with the `pay-bond-invoice` action.
+
+The bond is **independent from the trade escrow**: it is a second hold invoice with its own payment hash, and it is **released on every normal exit path** — completion, cancel before timeout, or dispute resolution where the solver does not direct otherwise. Bonds are typically around **1% of the trade amount** (with an operator-configured floor), much smaller than the trade hold invoice that may follow.
+
+## Direction and trigger
+
+- **Direction:** Mostro → user (the taker).
+- **Trigger:** Sent immediately after a successful `take-buy` / `take-sell` when the operator has bonds enabled.
+- **Order status:** The published NIP-33 order event keeps the `s` tag at `pending` while the bond is outstanding (per NIP-69's four-bucket model — see [Peer-to-peer Order events. NIP-69](./order_event.md)). The DM payload's embedded `SmallOrder` echo carries the daemon-internal status `waiting-taker-bond` so the recipient client can render the bond-payment phase distinctly, but external observers (other potential takers, order-book aggregators) continue to see the order as `pending` and may still attempt to take it. This is deliberate: a taker who never pays the bond cannot park the order off the book.
+
+## Mostro message to the taker
+
+The rumor's content has the same shape as `pay-invoice`; only the action discriminator differs:
+
+```json
+[
+  {
+    "order": {
+      "version": 1,
+      "id": "<Order Id>",
+      "action": "pay-bond-invoice",
+      "payload": {
+        "payment_request": [
+          {
+            "id": "<Order Id>",
+            "kind": "sell",
+            "status": "waiting-taker-bond",
+            "amount": 7851,
+            "fiat_code": "VES",
+            "fiat_amount": 100,
+            "payment_method": "face to face",
+            "premium": 1,
+            "created_at": 1698937797
+          },
+          "lnbcrt780n1pj59wmepp5..."
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  null
+]
+```
+
+> Note: the `status` value `"waiting-taker-bond"` here is the daemon-internal state echoed in the DM payload. The corresponding NIP-33 addressable order event's `s` tag is still `pending`.
+
+## Expected client behaviour
+
+- Decode the bolt11 and surface it to the user **explicitly as a bond**, not as the trade escrow. Do not reuse the same wording or UI step that you use for `pay-invoice`.
+- Pay it. The HTLC enters `Accepted` state — the sats are locked in the taker's wallet, not captured.
+- Do not collapse this into the same UI step as any subsequent `pay-invoice` on the same order. They are independent HTLCs (different payment hashes), and the user must explicitly approve each.
+
+## Follow-up flow
+
+Once the bond HTLC is `Accepted`, Mostro proceeds with the normal trade flow:
+
+- **Sell order taken (taker = buyer):** order status moves to `waiting-buyer-invoice`; the taker next receives `add-invoice` to provide a payout invoice.
+- **Buy order taken (taker = seller):** order status moves to `waiting-payment`; the taker next receives `pay-invoice` for the **trade hold invoice**.
+
+> **Important — buy order taken (seller-as-taker):** this is the only flow on which a single user pays **two hold invoices in sequence on the same order** — first the bond (`pay-bond-invoice`), then the trade escrow (`pay-invoice`). They arrive as distinct actions and must be presented to the user as separate steps. Do not auto-pay either, do not coalesce them, and make the distinction obvious in the UI; this is the most error-prone path for client developers.
+
+## Daemon status `waiting-taker-bond` (DM payloads only)
+
+In addition to the NIP-69 wire status (`pending` while the bond is outstanding), Mostro tags the order's internal state as `waiting-taker-bond` so it can route subsequent messages correctly. Clients see this value in the `SmallOrder` echo embedded in `pay-bond-invoice` payloads and may use it to drive UI ("Waiting for bond payment"). It does **not** appear on the addressable NIP-33 order event — that one continues to advertise the order as `pending`.
+
+Internal transitions (visible only in DM payload echoes):
+
+- From `pending` → `waiting-taker-bond`, after a successful `take-buy` / `take-sell` when bonds are enabled.
+- From `waiting-taker-bond` → `waiting-payment` (buy order taken) or → `waiting-buyer-invoice` (sell order taken), once the bond HTLC is `Accepted`.
+- From `waiting-taker-bond` → `pending`, if the bond bolt11 is never paid and expires, or the taker cancels before locking. The published `s` tag was `pending` throughout — observers see only that the take attempt left no trace.
+
+## Failure modes
+
+- The user never pays the bond bolt11 → the invoice expires; the order's NIP-33 status was `pending` throughout, so the rollback only undoes the daemon-internal take state. The order remains takeable.
+- The user pays the bond and then cancels before trade completion → the bond HTLC is cancelled and the funds return to the taker.
+- Slashing conditions (solver-directed dispute resolution, or timeout while in a waiting state) can settle the bond rather than release it. These paths are documented under [Admin Settle order](./admin_settle_order.md) and [Admin Cancel order](./admin_cancel_order.md), and in the Mostro daemon's anti-abuse bond specification.
+
+## Backwards compatibility
+
+Clients running an older `mostro-core` version that does not yet know `pay-bond-invoice` will fail to deserialize the message and silently drop it; from the user's perspective the take stalls and eventually times out without surfacing a useful error. Operators are responsible for not enabling bonds in production until clients in the wild have adopted the `mostro-core` release that ships `Action::PayBondInvoice`. Clients should:
+
+- Recognise the action explicitly and surface it to the user.
+- If unable to handle it (e.g. an older build talking to a bond-enabled node), present a clear error rather than silently retrying the take.
+
+The Mostro info event will gain bond-related tags so clients can detect bond-enabled nodes ahead of a take — see [Other events published by Mostro](./other_events.md#mostro-instance-status).

src/take_buy.md

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 }
 ```
 
+## Optional: anti-abuse bond step
+
+When the receiving Mostro node has bonds enabled, the seller (taker) first receives a [`pay-bond-invoice`](./pay_bond_invoice.md) message; the published NIP-33 order event remains `pending` (re-takeability is preserved — see [order event](./order_event.md)) and the DM payload echoes the internal status `waiting-taker-bond`. Only after the bond HTLC is `Accepted` does Mostro send the `pay-invoice` message described below.
+
+This is the **only flow on which a single user pays two hold invoices in sequence on the same order**: the bond first, then the trade hold invoice. They arrive as distinct actions (`pay-bond-invoice` then `pay-invoice`) and clients **must** present them as separate steps. Clients that do not recognise `pay-bond-invoice` should expect the take to time out and surface a clear error to the user — do not silently retry the take.
+
 ## Mostro response
 
 Mostro respond to the seller with a message with the following content:

src/take_sell.md

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 ]
 ```
 
+## Optional: anti-abuse bond step
+
+When the receiving Mostro node has bonds enabled, the buyer (taker) first receives a [`pay-bond-invoice`](./pay_bond_invoice.md) message; the published NIP-33 order event remains `pending` (re-takeability is preserved — see [order event](./order_event.md)) and the DM payload echoes the internal status `waiting-taker-bond`. Only after the bond HTLC is `Accepted` does Mostro send the `add-invoice` message described below. Clients that do not recognise `pay-bond-invoice` should expect the take to time out and surface a clear error to the user — do not silently retry the take.
+
 ## Mostro response
 
 In order to continue the buyer needs to send a lightning network invoice to Mostro, in this case the amount of the order is `0`, so Mostro will need to calculate the amount of sats for this order, then Mostro will send back a message asking for a LN invoice indicating the correct amount of sats that the invoice should have, here the rumor's content of the message: