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Humanode Biweekly vol.115

Humanode Biweekly vol.115

Vortex alpha is live, Biomapper C2 ships to MegaETH + Polygon, BotBasher dTelecom integration, Biomapper CVM rotated, Music Contest results, Fireside, new PoBU reads, Eidōlon Points (Episteme), and more! TL;DR Hi everyone, Humanode Biweekly Vol. 115, a note from the team on what shipped, what’s live, and what’s

Vortex Alpha is open for Testing

Vortex Alpha is open for Testing

Today we’re opening the doors to something we’ve been building in the open for months. Vortex Alpha is now live. This is the first time Proto-Vortex moves out of internal loops and into real user hands. Not as a finished product, but as a working environment where you

Eidōlon Points: How Episteme Rewards Real Humans for Building Markets for Scientific Truth

Eidōlon Points: How Episteme Rewards Real Humans for Building Markets for Scientific Truth

Episteme introduces Eidōlon Points, an activity-based system that rewards real participation in scientific prediction markets. With Humanode verification, the system prioritizes signal over noise and enables small, Sybil-resistant clusters. Episteme is building a market for scientific truth: not as a metaphor, but as a working system where hypotheses become markets

Biomapper C2 deployed on Polygon Network

Biomapper C2 deployed on Polygon Network

It feels like just yesterday when Biomapper first went live on the very first EVM-compatible chain, where it brought uniqueness verification onchain and proved that one human = one wallet could actually work. Since then, Biomapper has expanded far beyond that first deployment, powering Sybil resistance across multiple chains and integrations.

Vortex Sim Dev Log #4 — Cognitocratic Measure + Governing Tiers

Vortex Sim Dev Log #4 — Cognitocratic Measure + Governing Tiers

TL;DR We added Cognitocratic Measure scoring (CM/LCM/MCM/ACM) with chamber‑multiplier voting and implemented governing tier progression + proposal type gating across the API and UI. My Governance + Profile now surface tier progress, chamber rosters show tiers, and proposal creation is blocked with clear, tier‑aware reasons when

Humanode Biweekly vol.114

Humanode Biweekly vol.114

Vortex Sim Dev Log #3 just landed, the Community Playbook is live, and we’re kicking off the first Humanode Music Contest. New WeHMND/WBTC biostaking pool is deployed, plus a Fireside with Rich Robinson (Animoca Brands). Also: Episteme’s Eidōlon is now open to the public, Humanode’s 2025

Announcing the very first Humanode Music Contest

Announcing the very first Humanode Music Contest

If anyone reading this article remembers that catchy song from the very first Humanode Got Talent contest that went on singing “Huma-node, Huma-node, Huma-node”, I am sure you will agree that it is time to find a new tune to wipe that one from your memory. (Well, at least so

Humanode Community Playbook

Humanode Community Playbook

If you were following CT during the zkSync drop, you already know how this goes. About 700,000 wallets qualified. Timelines filled up with spreadsheets, Sybil graphs, farming guides, and angry threads about who got how much. For weeks, the conversation was not about zkSync as a network. It was

Vortex Sim Dev Log #3 - Refactor Stabilization + Chamber Threads/Chat

Vortex Sim Dev Log #3 - Refactor Stabilization + Chamber Threads/Chat

TL;DR Chamber internals are canonical (roster/pipeline/metadata), membership gating is enforced, and chambers now ship threads + WebRTC chat with member‑only writes. The server codebase is cleaner and more predictable, the test suite runs under rstest, and the web client is aligned with the Hono API (pool/vote/

Episteme’s Eidōlon Opens to the Public on Humanode

Episteme’s Eidōlon Opens to the Public on Humanode

A public experiment in treating scientific hypotheses as live, testable systems Today, the Humanode ecosystem welcomes a new public experiment. Episteme is a DeScAI initiative exploring a different way of coordinating knowledge: by turning scientific hypotheses into live, tokenized AI-driven prediction markets. Instead of treating research claims as static conclusions

Stop blaming AI for things people choose to do

Stop blaming AI for things people choose to do

A few weeks into 2026, timelines on X flooded with sexually explicit deepfake images. Many were AI-generated depictions of real people, sometimes without consent, sometimes involving minors, created using xAI’s Grok. The reaction wasn’t quiet. Regulators launched investigations. The California Attorney General issued a cease-and-desist order demanding an

Humanode 2025 Recap

Humanode 2025 Recap

Cross-chain Humanity, Governance-in-Progress, and the Year “Human” Became a Primitive 2025 was the year Humanode started behaving like an identity layer that travels. Not identity as in KYC, dossiers, or “log in with…”. Identity as in: a minimal, privacy-preserving, Sybil-resistant answer to one question: Is there a real, unique human

Proto-Vortex Update Jan 14

Proto-Vortex Update Jan 14

# Dev Log #2 — Repo Split (Web / Server / Docs) Date: 2026-01-14 TL;DR This update turns the simulator from a “single repo that contains everything” into three focused repos: * humanode-network/vortex-simulator-web — UI only * humanode-network/vortex-simulator-server — backend only (API + DB + tests) * humanode-network/vortex-simulator-docs — docs only (this repo) The goal is to make

Proto-Vortex update Jan 5

Proto-Vortex update Jan 5

Who would have expected the world to have aged another year while we were busy working? As our team was working on updating the proto-Vortex during the “holiday season”, we woke up to a new year without knowing it, but it feels good. Proto-Vortex is getting closer and closer to

What prediction market builders are missing about Sybils

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

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,

Polana Network Integrates BotBasher in its Discord

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

Vortex Demo UI Released

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

When Your Game Economy Starts Lying to You

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

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: The pitfall of centralized servers

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

Updates to the proto-Vortex flow

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.

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

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

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,

The revolution that sold its soul

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