This is definitely a beautiful project, and I feel like any upvotes we make here DO help support something bigger.

Have you ever considered the possibility of developing some kind of system by which people on Steemit could directly BUY Manna with Steem? As in, I send you 10 Steem, and the equivalent value ends up in my Manna account?

Manna could put the Steem into SP and it would keep earning value, while an ongoing flow of "external" demand for Manna might help boost the value of the token.