Manav.id
$MANAV · Crypto Thesis

The currency of human identity.

Not a coin you mine with GPUs. A token mined by being provably, verifiably, undeniably human — and doing real work the agent economy depends on.

"Bitcoin is digital gold. Ethereum is digital oil.
$MANAV is digital humanity."

$MANAV
10B
Fixed supply
40%
To workers
PoHW
Consensus
$150B
Y5 FDV target
What it is

One protocol. One identity.
One token that earns itself.

manav.id is the universal human identity protocol for the agent economy — and $MANAV is its native token. Each verified human gets a persistent handle, a cryptographic identity, and a balance that grows every time they do real, attested work.

The handle

vishal.manav.id

One human · one ID

A persistent, biometrically-bound handle. Issued once, verifiable forever, portable across every employer, agent framework, and jurisdiction.

The protocol

manav.id

Resolver · OAuth · API

"Sign in with Manav" for any app. A verifier API any platform can call. The DNS-grade resolver every agent uses before trusting a human signature.

The token

$MANAV

10B fixed · PoHW

Earned by verified work. Burned as gas for agent transactions. Staked for trust. The deflationary engine that makes the protocol self-sustaining.

The identity trilemma

Self-sovereign. Verifiable. Aligned.
Pick all three.

Every identity system before $MANAV had to choose two of three. The token is what closes the third corner — because economic incentive is a force you can program.

$MANAV ALL THREE SELF SOVEREIGN CRYPTO VERIFIABLE INCENTIVE ALIGNED Okta · 2 of 3 World · 2 of 3 LinkedIn · 1 of 3

Why every prior system fell short

Okta / Microsoft Entra: verifiable and aligned (you pay them) — but you don't own your identity. Leave the company, lose the proof.

Worldcoin / W3C VCs: sovereign and verifiable — but the incentive is a one-time grant, not earned value. Adoption stalls.

LinkedIn: social-graph aligned — but no cryptographic verification and no real ownership. The data belongs to LinkedIn.

$MANAV closes the triangle: the token is the incentive, and it's earned only by provable human work. Self-sovereign by design, cryptographic by default.
Positioning

Every prior token proves something.
$MANAV proves humanity.

Bitcoin proves you burned electricity. Ethereum proves you locked capital. Worldcoin proves you have eyeballs. $MANAV is the first token whose proof is verified human contribution — the only economic input that has held its value across every technology shift in history.

$BTC
Bitcoin
Proves: electricity burned
Backed by scarcity, not work the world needs.
$ETH
Ethereum
Proves: capital locked + compute spent
Gas for machines, not for humans.
$WLD
Worldcoin
Proves: you have eyeballs
Distributed via grants. No ongoing earning loop.
$MANAV
Manav Protocol
Proves: humanity + verified work + delegation
Earned, burned, and staked across every transaction in the agent economy.
$BTC · digital gold $ETH · digital oil $MANAV · digital humanity

In a world where machines outnumber workers 100:1, the most valuable asset is not energy or compute — it's cryptographic proof a human did the work. That proof is $MANAV.

Tokenomics

10B fixed. 40% earned by humans.
The rest aligned long-term.

A supply schedule designed to put the largest share of the float in the hands of the people doing the work — with vesting and lockups that punish short-termism.

40%
Human work rewards (PoHW mining)
20%
Ecosystem & developer fund
15%
Team & advisors (4-yr vest, 1-yr cliff)
12%
Investors (seed → Series B)
8%
Treasury (multisig)
5%
Genesis airdrop (verified humans)

Two design choices distinguish this allocation. First, the team + investor combined allocation (27%) sits below the median of comparable launches — a deliberate choice to reduce supply overhang and signal that the protocol is built for the humans earning the token, not the people raising on it. Second, the work-mining bucket (40%) is the only line that cannot be accelerated, gamed, or front-loaded.

Total supply
10,000,000,000
Inflation Y1–Y10
Fixed (no mint)
After Y10
≤ 1% / yr (governance)
Halving cadence
Every 2 years
Settlement chain
Ethereum L2 → multi-chain
Token type
Utility · Gas · Governance
Proof of Human Work

A new consensus.
Verified human contribution.

Not Proof of Work (electricity). Not Proof of Stake (capital). Not Proof of Personhood (one-time scan). $MANAV mints tokens proportional to cryptographically attested human output — the only proof that matters when machines can fake everything else.

1

Register

Liveness + device attestation. One human, one manav.id handle, bound for life.

2

Work

Code, design, decisions, peer reviews — any verifiable knowledge work.

3

Attest

Cryptographic stamp via SDK, browser ext, or git/editor integration.

4

Earn

$MANAV minted to your handle, weighted by trust score and scarcity curve.

5

Compound

Higher trust = higher mining rate. Reputation becomes capital.

$MANAVearned = base_rate × work_proofs × trust_multiplier × scarcity_curve base_rate — adjusts dynamically to maintain emission schedule
work_proofs — count of verified human work attestations
trust_multiplier — your Manav Trust Score (1.0× → 3.0×)
scarcity_curve — halving every two years, indexed to attestation epochs

What counts as work

Work typeAttestation methodWeight
Code commitsGit pre-receive hook + reviewer signatureHigh
Decision-makingAgent delegation chain proofHigh
Agent supervisionChain management logsHigh
Mentoring / trainingPeer attestation + outcomeHigh
Document creationEditor plugin attestationMedium
Design workDesign tool integrationMedium
Peer reviewBilateral attestationMedium
Meeting participationCalendar + biometric presenceLow
Six utilities

$MANAV is gas, stake, governance,
payment, passport, and compliance fuel.

A utility token in the most literal sense: every action in the human-agent economy consumes, locks, or earns it.

Utility 01

Gas for human-agent transactions

Every time an agent acts on a human's behalf and the action needs verification, $MANAV is consumed. Burned, not paid — deflationary by design.

100M agents × 10 actions/day = 1B+ tx/day
Utility 02

Trust amplification staking

Stake $MANAV against your handle to boost trust score. Higher stake = access to higher-value delegations and contracts. Skin in the game, on chain.

Identity · Work · Agent staking
Utility 03

Governance of the human layer

1 human = 1 vote, weighted logarithmically by stake. Sybil-resistant by architecture — you can't fake humanity, and you can't whale-takeover what you can't fake.

Quadratic-style human governance
Utility 04

Payment rail for verified work

The Manav Marketplace settles in $MANAV. Smart contracts release payment only after deliverable attestation lands on chain.

Verified humans · verified output
Utility 05

Cross-platform identity passport

Balance + trust score + work history = your portable career credential. The token is the resume — lifelong, employer-agnostic, jurisdiction-spanning.

Survives every job change
Utility 06

Compliance fuel

Enterprise audit trails for EU AI Act, eIDAS 2.0, NIST AI-RMF. $MANAV pays for the immutable proofs regulators will require by 2027.

Mandatory by 2027 in EU
Value accrual

A deflationary flywheel backed
by real economic output.

Token velocity has a problem. $MANAV has the opposite problem: every productive use either burns supply or locks it up. The more the protocol succeeds, the scarcer the token becomes.

HUMANS JOIN WORK ATTESTED GAS BURNED VALUE RISES $MANAV FLYWHEEL

Demand grows. Supply locks. Value compounds.

Each new human joining the protocol creates more agents, which burn more gas, which pulls more $MANAV out of float. Combined with a fixed 10B supply and 4-year team vesting, the structural pressure on float is asymmetrically deflationary.

Demand drivers

  • Agent gas fees (burn)
  • Identity staking (lock)
  • Marketplace settlement
  • Governance lockups
  • Trust amplification
  • Enterprise licensing

Supply constraints

  • Fixed 10B supply
  • 2-year halving cycle
  • 4-year team vest
  • Staking lockups
  • Slow PoHW emission
  • Treasury holds

Conservative 5-year projection

For context: Worldcoin hit 18M verified users with iris scans alone and zero earning loop. $MANAV offers actual income for actual work.

YearRegistered humansDaily attestations$MANAV priceFDV
Y1100K500K$0.10$1B
Y21M10M$0.80$8B
Y310M200M$3.50$35B
Y450M1B$8.00$80B
Y5200M5B$15.00$150B
Dual engine

SaaS revenue. Token network effects.
Both, not either.

Pure SaaS is commoditisable. Pure crypto is reflexive and fragile. Manav runs both engines on the same identity primitive — the most defensible business model in either category.

Engine 01 · SaaS

Enterprise revenue stream

$600M
ARR target by Year 5
  • Enterprise licenses (verifier API)
  • Per-verification metered fees
  • Compliance packages (EU AI Act, eIDAS 2)
  • Trust analytics & intelligence
  • Premium "Sign in with Manav" SLAs
Engine 02 · Token

Network value capture

$150B
FDV target by Year 5
  • $MANAV gas burn
  • Staking rewards & lockups
  • Marketplace transaction volume
  • Governance value accrual
  • Cross-protocol bridge fees
Combined Year-5 valuation range
$50B — $150B

The difference between building Slack and building Ethereum.

The Genesis phase

Claim your manav.id
before the agents do.

Verified humans who claim a manav.id during Genesis (Year 1) qualify for the 5% airdrop and unlock the highest mining multipliers for life.