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MANA / Utility · Exchange · Stewardship

Value in service of meaningful work.

MANA is designed as ARCnet’s shared primitive for utility and transferable value. Its purpose is to support useful services, creation, contribution, and durable infrastructure within constitutional limits.

Capacity and exchange

The Economic Constitution gives MANA two connected roles: access to bounded optional utilities and infrastructure, and voluntary exchange of value. Payments, rewards, compensation, and new issuance must remain distinguishable.

Contribution with a factual basis

A reward or payment needs an identified purpose, funding source, authorization, and receipt. Calling something a reward does not create funds or minting authority. Private reflection and Vitae recognition cannot become an economic score.

Stewardship with boundaries

Treasury and governance have defined responsibilities and limits. Holding MANA creates no automatic yield, constitutional privilege, or governance supremacy. Unresolved rates and numerical parameters require their own design and ratification.

In human terms

A future authorized payment for a useful service would record the service, amount, source, recipient, and actual monetary operation. That record would say what was exchanged; it would not rank either person.

Authority is not for sale. Human worth is not denominated.

Where it stands

This describes the constitutional economic design. No token sale, public reward program, yield offer, or live MANA economy is offered here.