Pangea Arbitration Token (PAT) is a sort of security token for the Pangea jurisdiction, a DBVN that is hosted on top of a network-state like Ethereum. PAT secures the jurisdiction by being a sort of “social mining”, which rewards Bitnation Citizens for build-up of reputation within a free market for voluntary nations.

Within the nation-state paradigm, citizenship has been in the form of a “social contract”, and the Pangea Arbitration Token (PAT) does similar functions as the Westphalian social contract, tough in an opt-in and voluntary way. To get a voluntary citizenship, a user deploys a new contract PangeaVoluntaryCitizenship.

This contract, that acts as an extension of the persons social cognition, has the rules for the three reputation proofs that form the “reputation web” on Pangea, proof-of-agreement (PoA), proof-of-nomic (PoN) and proof-of-collective (PoC). The contract is then used as a sort of (pseudo-anonymous) user profile, when forming agreements and completing those agreements, participating in curating contracts and legal codes by “upvoting” those contacts, and co-ordination around shared legal codes.

The idea of Lucy as an “autonomous agent” that knits together the reputation web on Pangea

The Pangea Arbitration Token (PAT) as the same form of infrastructure as the Westphalian “social contract” means that it is a very laborious system, and so the “central operating unit” has been given a symbolic name in itself, that of Lucy, from the Au. afarensis fossil that was discovered in 1974. The name points to the complexity of knitting together PoN, PoA and PoC trails, and that Lucy is a sort of early version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI), which will eventually evolve into an AGI. So Lucy is the frontal lobe of the internet, if you will, a global social cognition for eusocial coordination.