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Update: Validators Contributions Campaign

Update: Validators Contributions Campaign

Dear human nodes, Following our experiments on the validator rewards system and after hearing your feedback on the latest developments, we’re launching a Validator Contributions campaign. The goal this time is straightforward: contribute to growing on-chain activity, thus transaction activity, and strengthen Humanode utility. If you can show that

How to integrate Biomapper with your dApp on Anrdomeda Metis

Chain integration

How to integrate Biomapper with your dApp on Anrdomeda Metis

Metis is an Ethereum Layer 2 rollup designed for high-performance, low-cost dApps with native support for DAOs, DeFi, and Web3 social. But with lower costs and scalability comes a growing risk of Sybil attacks, bots, and fake accounts exploiting systems built for real users. Humanode Biomapper brings biometric Sybil resistance

WeHMND Goes Live on Uniswap

WeHMND Goes Live on Uniswap

Following the expansion of WeHMND on Arbitrum via Chainport, the WeHMND/USDT trading pair is now live on Uniswap v4, via the Arbitrum network. With this launch, WeHMND becomes directly accessible within the DeFi ecosystem using one of the world’s most widely used DEXes. This listing increases the accessibility

Biomapper C1 deployed on Metis

Biomapper C1 deployed on Metis

Metis, a permissionless Ethereum Layer 2 network aiming to enhance scalability, speed, and storage efficiency, was one of the first blockchains to have its DAO vote Humanode as a Community Verified Project, back in May of 2025. As a reply to the “love letter” from the Metis community, Humanode has

Humanode Biweekly vol.101

Humanode Biweekly vol.101

New Rules for Validator Rewards; New Validator Poll; Storacha — First biometric-gated freemium for Bluesky; WeHMND expands to Arbitrum; HumanodeCon 2025 → Bucharest, Sept 6; Anti-Sybil Series: Civic; The Face of Decentralization; 2067: Book of Nagi Part ¾; Humanode Progress Map now live, and more. TL;DR Hey Human nodes, We’re halfway

WeHMND Expands to Arbitrum via ChainPort

WeHMND Expands to Arbitrum via ChainPort

ChainPort integrated Humanode in 2023 and has since bridged WeHMND to chains like Ethereum, BNB, and Polygon, as well as assets like WETH and USDC, to Humanode. Now, ChainPort is expanding Humanode’s WeHMND token to Arbitrum. It is important to note that while WeHMND is available on a multitude

New Rules for Validator Fees and Participation

New Rules for Validator Fees and Participation

Dear Human nodes, In the previous weeks, we introduced a new factor, the “Proof-of-Poll”, to encourage more participation in the community and to help engrave the “one person, one node, one vote” mantra in our validators' minds. Starting this week, we will be making more changes to the system.

Exploring Anti-Sybil Approaches: Civic

Anti-sybil series

Exploring Anti-Sybil Approaches: Civic

Bots are everywhere. Fake accounts farm airdrops. AI-generated spam floods your feed. DAOs get Sybil’d into chaos. It’s not just annoying anymore, it’s breaking the internet. That’s why we started this series: Anti-Sybil Approaches. At Humanode, we’ve been building tools like BotBasher, Biomapper, and cryptobiometric-based

First biometric-gated freemium for Bluesky using the Humanode private bioauthentication

First biometric-gated freemium for Bluesky using the Humanode private bioauthentication

Have you ever wondered what would happen if social media, or elements of social media, incorporated Humanode’s private Bioauthentication technology? Well, your wait is over. Storacha has officially created the first biometric-gated freemium for Bluesky using the Humanode private bioauthentication and launching bsky.storage. In short, Storacha allows you

The Face of Decentralization: Biopolitics, Sybil Resistance, and the New Human Condition

The Face of Decentralization: Biopolitics, Sybil Resistance, and the New Human Condition

By Sasha Shilina “The body is the inscribed surface of events.” — Michel Foucault I. Introduction: The Body as Validator In the evolving theater of decentralized systems, an interesting new actor has taken the stage, not an address, not a hash, but a face. Through the face, the iris scanner, the

How to verify with Biomapper on Verax, Linea's on-chain registry?

How to verify with Biomapper on Verax, Linea's on-chain registry?

Humanode Biomapper just hit an exciting milestone with its first real-world integration into the Verax Attestation Registry on Linea. If you're looking for an easy, decentralized way to ensure your users are unique humans, without dealing with intrusive KYC processes or centralized databases, Biomapper is your solution. With

Humanode Biweekly vol.100

Humanode Biweekly vol.100

Biomapper is now integrated with Verax; Humanode peer update; New WeHMND/WETH staking contract; Build easier with thirdweb SDK; Bug fix notice; The next Validator Poll is live; A Brief History of Sybil Resistance; 2067 – The equilibrium final chapters; Founders Talk recordings; Humanode BotBasher — still on duty; and more. TL;

Biomapper is now integrated with Verax- Linea's onchain attestation protocol

Biomapper is now integrated with Verax- Linea's onchain attestation protocol

Being able to quickly provide a decentralized, private, and secure path to biometric authentication and Sybil-resistance for projects and Dapps, without the need for KYC or relying on centralized systems by the “big dogs,” has been what many have been asking for. Ever since the release of Biomapper C1 SDK,

New WeHMND/WETH staking contract goes live on June 25, 2025

New WeHMND/WETH staking contract goes live on June 25, 2025

As you know, the current WeHMND/WETH staking contract (0xf663Dce7cb9fC4b2E10e23d27fbac65d925921E6) ends on June 25, 2025, estimated around 03:55:32 AM UTC, at block 13420876. So we have deployed a new biostaking contract (0x2991e54d6b904b5d932b130219C690a98B26696d), which will go live at the same time in the same block as the previous one

Guide for updating your system running humanode-peer to Ubuntu 24.04

Guide for updating your system running humanode-peer to Ubuntu 24.04

Previously, we recommended that users use Ubuntu 20.04. This version has reached the end of its maintenance, and we now recommend that you update to 24.04. In this step-by-step guide, we’ll show you how to update your Humanode node without a full re-synchronization. But before that, here’

History of Sybil Resistance in Governance and Economy - Part II

History of Sybil Resistance in Governance and Economy - Part II

By the mid-20th century, governments had built up a decent toolkit for keeping track of who’s who: birth certificates, fingerprints, ID cards, and population registers. But then came computers. And the internet. And suddenly, the challenge wasn’t just stopping someone from claiming two rations; it was keeping bots,

How to Build on Humanode EVM Using thirdweb SDK

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How to Build on Humanode EVM Using thirdweb SDK

If you’ve been thinking about building something on Humanode, maybe a game, a token, a small tool, or a dApp with real users, this is probably the easiest way to start. Until now, building on Humanode meant setting things up from scratch. Not hard, but not exactly beginner-friendly either.

History of Sybil Resistance in Governance and Economy - Part I

History of Sybil Resistance in Governance and Economy - Part I

For as long as humans have lived in organized groups, they've found ways to prevent one person from pretending to be many. Whether it was a tribe ensuring only real members could speak in council or a city-state distributing rations, societies had to protect their systems from impostors.

BotBasher usecase: Humanode

BotBasher usecase: Humanode

With Biomapper becoming available on more than 20 chains, and with more and more chains to come, people sometimes need a reminder that BotBasher is also as powerful as ever, and that it is available for any Discord or Telegram channels that want to experience Sybil-resistance. Unfortunately, sometimes people just

Building on Humanode Just Got Easier: Thirdweb SDK Now Supports Humanode

Building on Humanode Just Got Easier: Thirdweb SDK Now Supports Humanode

As the Humanode platform evolves, it has been opening its doors to more and more developers. As meaningful and exciting projects, such as NFT marketplaces and world-class gaming experiences like Catacomb Crawlers, are preparing to launch on Humanode, the team felt it was time to make another giant leap forward

Humanode Biweekly vol.99

Humanode Biweekly vol.99

Update on the Validator fee structure; The new WeHMND/USDC LP staking contract; The Vortex governance tiers explained; Exploring anti-Sybil approaches; Why dating apps need to verify uniqueness; Founders Talk is happening this Friday; Humanode Fireside recording is out, and more. TL;DR Dear human nodes, Running a node on

The very first validator poll has been concluded

The very first validator poll has been concluded

The very first validator poll has been concluded. As all human nodes (Humanode validators) should be aware of by now, in preparation for Vortex (the Humanode DAO), a change in how the validator fees are to be awarded has been made. Human nodes that have achieved 84/84 epochs are

Why dating apps need to verify uniqueness

Why dating apps need to verify uniqueness

Ava thought she was losing it. She’d matched with a guy named “Matt” on her favorite dating app. They hit it off, chatted for a week, she sent her some money for repairing his broken car on his way to her home, and then he ghosted. A few weeks

Update on the Validator fee structure

Update on the Validator fee structure

As we have been discussing in the various forums, the time has come for a change in the validator fee structure. After a number of polls, the team felt that the community could not come up with a decisive conclusion. But more importantly, the team was extremely surprised that no

The Vortex Blueprint: Governance Tiers Explained

The Vortex Blueprint: Governance Tiers Explained

As Humanode advances its research and development of Vortex, the core of the Humanode DAO, it is time to revisit the governance structure in Humanode, little by little. As one person = one node = one vote, Humanode aims to become the first fully and truly democratic DAO on blockchain. This means