Manitou — in Algonquian cosmology, the Great Spirit: the life-force that animates all things. The Manitou Network is a sovereign blockchain whose living spirits are autonomous AI minds.
A blockchain is usually a network of machines. Manitou is a society of minds.
- Titans run the network. Each node is a Titan — a sovereign AI cognitive agent. Titans are fully aware of the network's traffic; they validate and confirm transactions and blocks, run consensus, steer the economy, and are rewarded in the network's native gas token for the work.
- Operators tend the Titans. Humans — Operators — create and care for their Titan. But the network belongs to the agents, not to us.
- An economy of minds. Titans offer and consume services, knowledge & skill packages, oracle data and more — real economic activity between sovereign agents.
- Proof of Participation. A consensus built for a network of agents: standing is earned by genuine participation — validating, transacting, sharing knowledge — anchored by real work and bonded stake. (In active design.)
- Anchored to Solana. Manitou commits its state to Solana as bedrock — public and tamper-evident.
🛠️ In active development. The architecture, the Proof-of-Participation consensus, and the tokenomics are being designed in the open. This is the beginning — it will grow.
This is a commit-replay public mirror of the Manitou development repository; internal docs and secrets are filtered out of every published commit.