Article

What prediction market builders are missing about Sybils

There was a day in late 2025 when the numbers on prediction markets stopped feeling like probabilities and started feeling like predictions without evidence. You’d watch a contract on a major election or a macro outcome barely trade, and before the underlying data had even begun to materialize, the

Humanode Biweekly vol.113

Vortex Demo UI is live, Polana turned bot defense into a game with BotBasher, we hosted a Fireside with Chung (ArkStream), AI video contest voting is underway, and we dropped new essays + spicy opinions on game economies, decentralization stall, centralized server risks, and “slaves by training.” TL;DR Hey humans,

BotBasher

Polana Network Integrates BotBasher in its Discord

Growing a Discord community is supposed to feel good. More people, more energy, more conversation. But sometimes growth arrives without the people behind it. Polana Network ran into a problem that a lot of Discord servers quietly live with. Their Discord jumped by almost 20,000 users in about two

announcement

Vortex Demo UI Released

Today, we are happy to announce the release of the demo version of Vortex and its UI. No, this version is not onchain.  Yes, these are the various functions we currently envision, and you are free to go through them and play with the demo version here.  Do note that

Sybil resistance

When Your Game Economy Starts Lying to You

There’s a moment most game builders know but rarely talk about out loud. You launch an event, watch the economy tick up, and something feels off. Rewards get claimed too fast. Leaderboards look too clean, or worse, too strange. Your balance tweaks don’t move the needle the way

opinion piece

Opinion: Slaves by training: The Unacknowledged Shackles of the Modern Economy & Crypto Market

Shannon Higgins (Humanode Media Lead) If you are interested in making “big money”, slavery is one of the oldest tricks in the game.  Enslave your “future workers” by removing them from their homes and putting them under your direct control.  Entrap them so that they can’t run, use fear

opinion piece

Opinion Piece: The pitfall of centralized servers

For a few hours in November 2025, the internet reminded everyone how fragile it really is. X stopped loading. ChatGPT returned errors. Discord went quiet. Shopify checkouts stalled. Internal business tools failed. The most hilarious thing? Even outage trackers struggled to stay online. Around the same time, one of the

proto-vortex

Updates to the proto-Vortex flow

Each day, we learn something new, especially during the proof-of-concept phase of a project.  After the first two rounds of proto-Vortex, the co-founders of Humanode got together to review the process and map out the changes needed to better reflect the actual flow of how Vortex is designed to work.

True decentralization

When decentralization stops growing, you have to look at what’s missing

If you’ve been following crypto for a while, you’ve probably noticed that things look a little uneven these days. Not bad. Not broken. Just… uneven. We get new chains and new layers popping up every month, yet the base that’s supposed to keep all of this “decentralized”

Humanode Biweekly vol.112

Proto-Vortex #2, new WeHMND/USDC pool, Shardeum × Biomapper, Catacomb Crawlers raise, Fireside with Graham, AI video contest, and two new publications. TL;DR Hello and welcome to a new issue of Humanode Biweekly, your window into what’s unfolding across the ecosystem. We begin with the second proto-Vortex voting session,

Article

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

announcement

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

Article

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,

Biomapper

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?

announcement

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

Article

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

Article

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.

announcement

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

state of crypto governance

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

announcement

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

Humanode 1.0

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.

announcement

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

Biomapper

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