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The revolution that sold its soul

When crypto first appeared, it carried the energy of a rebellion. People were tired of banks calling the shots, tired of Wall Street gambling with their savings, and tired of central banks deciding what their money was worth. The early cypherpunks said you could “be your own bank,” and for

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Shardeum chose Biomapper to keep its airdrop Sybil-resistant

Shardeum, an L1 Blockchain that prides itself in building an onchain ecosystem that is focused on India, has become one of the smartest chains when talking about airdrops. Like many emerging chains, Shardeum launched an EVM Testnet Quest in order to validate their core EVM functionality at scale. In the

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Voting in 2035 - A human's account

This is just a fun look at how governance might work in 2035, written as if I’m living through it and cracking jokes while AI agents campaign harder than humans ever did. Let me share my experience from this beautiful morning in 2035. So… I just tried to vote

Humanode Biweekly vol.111

Biomapper now on Ethereum and BNB chain TL;DR Humanode just turned three. Three years since mainnet launch, three years of human nodes keeping this stubborn experiment alive: a network where validation comes from living people, not capital. With Cross-chain Biomapper now live on Ethereum, BNB, and several other chains,

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Sybil-resistance at your fingertips.  The Biomapper option

With the need and desire for privacy and security growing with each and every passing moment, and the financial hurdles and loss in user experience that bots and Sybils generate, perhaps it is time for developers to consider what the Humanode Biomapper can bring to the table. What is Biomapper?

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Botbasher is kicking and free

Hi, I’m BotBasher, remember me?  Of course you do.  I am that super cool plug-in/gadget that allows anyone who hosts a Discord Server, or has a Telegram channel to create a “Human only” chatroom.  I know, I know.  Discord has all of those other useful bots that you

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From Parliaments to Protocols - Why power keeps drifting upward

Some stories repeat themselves so reliably that they begin to feel less like history and more like gravity. Governance, whether practiced in parliaments or encoded into blockchains, is one of those stories. For most of the last century, democratic societies had believed they solved a hard problem: how to build

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Proof of Life, Proof of Death: Cryptographic Immortality and the End of the Human Validator

By Sasha Shilina “The earth belongs…to the living; the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1789 I. The Missing Death in Protocol Space Blockchains are obsessed with beginnings.Genesis blocks. Fresh addresses. New epochs. “Go live.” What they are not very good at is endings.

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Humanode's first AI video contest is live!

Have you been missing the Humanode contests?  Well, today, the Humanode team invites you all to Humanode’s first AI Video contest!  In this day and age of AI assisting with content creation, and the role of the human having been moved to putting the message together and feeding the

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DAOs after token voting: Where governance goes when capital stops leading?

Token governance was supposed to give us a new way to decide together. After years of watching it in practice, the picture is clearer: most people don’t vote, power settles where capital settles, and the real decisions often fall back to the same groups who understand the code, run

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Biomapper now on Ethereum and BNB chain

This past half a year or so, Humanode has focused on spreading Biomapper to various chains, providing developers the ability to create Sybil-resistant dApps or projects utilizing the Humanode Biomapper on the chain they work with.   And now, to wrap up the mission of spreading Biomapper with crossbridge functionality, we

Humanode Biweekly vol.110

The Dawn of Proto-Vortex, our first step toward the Humanode DAO, Biomapper C2 deployed on Somnia; What fees mean for human nodes, and for decentralization; Catacomb Crawlers campaign extended + 5 reasons we’re excited about it; Fireside chat with Lonis, VP of Growth at Prospera, and more. TL;DR Dear

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What activity on Humanode really means

In our last article, we talked about what fees mean for the people securing Humanode. This time, we look at the bigger picture: how activity itself becomes the pulse that drives validator growth, token emission, and the network’s economic life. When people talk about fees, they usually mean cost.

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Invitation to the proto-Vortex

With the coding of Vortex on its way, it is time to launch “proto-Vortex”, which will act as the stepping stone for those interested in participating in Vortex when the time comes. As with many of the stepping stones, please treat proto-Vortex as a proof-of-concept initiative.  With the learning we

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Biomapper C2 deployed on Somnia

Somnia gives builders the room to dream up connected worlds from games to digital communities. But those worlds mean nothing if bots and spammers are the ones running them. That’s why Biomapper is now deployed on Somnia. With the Biomapper, builders can make sure the people behind their dApps

Humanode 101

What fees on Humanode mean for human nodes?

Whenever we send a transaction on a chain, we pay a fee. Most people accept that as a small cost of using the technology. But if we stop and ask where those fees actually go, the answer tells us who the system is truly built for. On the major chains

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The Dawn of Proto-Vortex

Ever since its inception, Humanode has been tirelessly moving forward with its mission to create a consensus mechanism that is equal and fair, that allows the participation of all, no matter who you are or where you are from, a system that gives people a voice, and where money cannot

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5 reasons why Humanode is excited about Catacomb Crawlers

As the day of the private hybrid funding round of Catacomb Crawlers nears, we thought it would be a good time to review what Catacomb Crawlers means to Humanode and why the Humanode team is excited about it. Reason 1: Catacomb Crawlers is the first major project to deploy on

Humanode Biweekly vol.109

Vortex and Formation, Biostaking on Humanode, Humanity Protocol — exploring new anti-Sybil frontiers, one checkmark redefining on-chain data, Catacomb Crawlers campaign, and Sybil and the Machine TL;DR Hey human nodes, The network keeps moving, and so do we. The Vortex is taking shape, the catacombs are stirring, and the myth

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Exploring Anti-Sybil Approaches: Humanity Protocol

AI generated content is everywhere. It fills timelines, writes comments, and even runs accounts that look convincingly human. As AI agents start posting, trading, and joining communities, the internet’s biggest question is shifting from “What’s real?” to “Who’s real?” Recent reports back this up. A16z’s October

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Still Running: Biostaking on Humanode

Biostaking has been part of Humanode from early on, yet it rarely makes headlines. While markets shift and new trends come and go, Biostaking has been quietly powering liquidity and rewarding verified humans behind the scenes. This is a good moment to revisit what it is, how it works, and

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Vortex and Formation

In the past few articles about the Vortex, we discussed the underlying principles and philosophy, the Chambers, and the required quorum.  In this article, we would like to discuss one of the key components of the Vortex, the Formation.   As you may be aware, Vortex governs the Humanode by determining

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What Makes Catacomb Crawlers Worth Playing

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been talking a lot about Catacomb Crawlers, its upcoming launch, the hybrid round, and whatnot. But let’s get to what really matters: the game itself. At its heart, it’s a roguelike survival that throws you into a series of catacombs, each

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Sybil and the Machine: Myth, Multiplicity, and the Crisis of Verification

By Sasha Shilina “I myself saw the Sibyl at Cumae with my own eyes, hanging in a jar; and when the boys asked her, ‘Sibyl, what do you want?’ she answered, ‘I want to die.’” – Petronius, Satyricon, 48. I. The problem of too many voices Web3 was built to welcome

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One checkmark that’s changing the way we understand Onchain data

Blockchain explorers record everything: transactions, token transfers, gas spent, and wallets interacted with. And on a public chain, that data is transparent by design. That’s the revolution Web3 promised: open, traceable activity visible to anyone. But there’s one thing even the best explorers can’t show you: Whether