# 6. Token Economic Model

The manadia token ($MA) is positioned as a native functional token for system operation and value coordination, rather than a certificate of yield rights or governance rights. Its primary functions are designed around four dimensions: measurement, settlement, risk constraints, and long-term coordination.

#### 6.1 Core Utilities of the Token

1. Unified Unit for Participation State and Rights Measurement\
   In applications such as Potion, users’ long-term participation trajectories are abstracted into “state points,” which are ultimately converted into $MA-denominated units for cross-scenario comparison and transfer of rights.
2. Internal Gas for Rights Expansion and Settlement\
   Each instance of rights release, usage, decay, or reclamation consumes a small amount of $MA as settlement fuel (with a dynamic fee rate adjusted by Agents based on network congestion and rights value).
3. VERITAS Node Staking and Slashing Collateral\
   Both pricing nodes and challenge nodes are required to stake $MA. Malicious behavior triggers tiered slashing (ranging from 5% to 100%), with slashed funds entering the protocol treasury to subsidize honest nodes and ecosystem incentives.
4. Economic Constraint for AI Agent Operation and State Maintenance\
   Each long-running Agent must stake a minimum amount of $MA as a “credit base.” In cases of decision failure or successful challenges, the staked amount is reduced, preventing low-cost Sybil attacks.
5. Cross-Scenario Coordination and Arbitrage Suppression\
   $MA is used as a bridging medium for rights exchange across different vertical applications, and a dynamic decay mechanism (where token capability decays exponentially after participation interruption) is employed to suppress short-term speculative participation.

#### 6.2 Issuance and Distribution Principles

* Total Supply: Fixed upper limit
* Initial circulation is primarily allocated to: early ecosystem incentives, VERITAS node staking rewards, Potion content provider subsidies, and locked allocations for the core team and advisors.
* Inflation mechanism: necessary subsidies for long-term operation of VERITAS and Agents (which can be gradually reduced to zero through protocol governance).
* Deflationary pressure: settlement consumption + slashing of malicious behavior + reclamation from rights decay.

The manadia economic model deliberately avoids design paths such as “holding equals yield” or “high-APY staking,” instead deeply binding the token to the system’s actual operational load and security requirements.


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