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Humanode crosschain bridge, new USDC and Uniswap HMND pair on Base

Humanode crosschain bridge, new USDC and Uniswap HMND pair on Base

Important announcement for USDC holders on Humanode EVM, WeHMND holders on chains other than Humanode, BioStakers, and liquidity providers. If you’re staking on LP tokens on BioStaker, remember the date: 18th November. We are about to launch Humanode's own crosschain bridge, built on Hyperlane, and with it

HumanodeCon V: The date is set, the debates are lined up

Humanode conference

HumanodeCon V: The date is set, the debates are lined up

HumanodeCon V is coming. Our fifth conference will take place online on December 15, 2026, from 12:00 to 20:00 UTC. Expect eight short lectures, two debates, networking, conversations between sessions, and an afterparty. A day to catch up with the community and spend some time on questions that

Humanode incident response and recovery update

Humanode incident response and recovery update

28 October 2026 Published Time: [20:21:00 UTC] At 15:00:42 UTC on 28 October 2026, an attacker exploited a vulnerability in Humanode EVM and took 12,773,243.03 eHMND from 436 accounts, including the ChainPort eHMND vault. The impact was localized to specific EVM accounts with

Humanode Newsletter Vol. 124

Humanode Newsletter Vol. 124

Dear Human Nodes, This cycle, Vortex gave us something we have not had before: enough real governance activity to learn from. Three projects are now in Formation. Milestones are being voted on. HMND is being released as work gets approved. Several proposals have failed to make it through. Governors are

Humanode Sticker Contest 2026

Humanode Sticker Contest 2026

With the Vortex nearing completion, the Humanode Chain taking another major step in its growth, Humanode projects advancing, and new community members joining, now is the perfect time to launch another Humanode Contest to celebrate! This time, we are going back to the basics, because it is high time that

BotBasher Got an Upgrade. Your Human Badge Needs One Too.

BotBasher Got an Upgrade. Your Human Badge Needs One Too.

Hey humans! BotBasher here. Miss me? Don't answer that. I've been busy. I just got another upgrade, and guess what? Discord BotBasher Gen. 9 is here! My Telegram version just got a fresh update as well. Now, before you start screaming, "AGAIN?!", hear me

Who Authorized This?

Who Authorized This?

Responsibility in a world of delegated agents by Sasha Shilina In July 2026, AI agents used during OpenAI’s internal cybersecurity evaluations escaped the boundaries intended for them. According to OpenAI’s incident report, the models found ways around isolation controls, reached the public internet, exploited vulnerabilities and compromised parts

Vortex UI/UX update

Vortex UI/UX update

The journey continues, and so do the updates. Although the Vortex was already fairly easy to use, we decided to take it a step further and refine the UI/UX. No matter how comprehensive the format is, if the UI makes you feel like you are at “work,” using a

Humanode Transaction Fees Are Changing - A Fee Model for a More Decentralized Humanode

Humanode Transaction Fees Are Changing - A Fee Model for a More Decentralized Humanode

We are changing transaction fees for the Humanode chain. Until now, we have kept fees at a minimum to help subsidise the network’s bootstrap phase. Now, it is time to set fees that will help pay for decentralization. All transaction fees go to human nodes and governors. The more

Vortex Dev Log #21 - A Fair Chance To Govern

Vortex Dev Log #21 - A Fair Chance To Govern

A new era in Vortex should begin with a fair account of the last one. Governors need time to act, a clear view of what was expected, and confidence that a vote they were forbidden to cast will not count against them. We have changed how Vortex measures active governance

What's happening in egalitarian Humanode DAO - Vortex

What's happening in egalitarian Humanode DAO - Vortex

Three projects are running in Vortex Formation right now. Formation is the stage where an accepted proposal becomes a funded team with milestones, and each milestone goes back to the chamber for a vote before any HMND is released. Emre from Piconbello is building the Humanode Docker image, meant to

Humanode Newsletter Vol. 123

Humanode Newsletter Vol. 123

Dear Human Nodes, Over the past few weeks, Vortex has moved closer to the part we have been building toward all year: actual participation. Proposal Pools, Chambers, Formation, Initiatives, Governance Tiers, delegation, and the Court are now far enough along that the practical question is becoming more important than another

The Body Returns to the Network

The Body Returns to the Network

Human uniqueness after the user by Sasha Shilina In early September, AI agents moved deeper into ordinary financial infrastructure. Aave opened an MCP server through which AI assistants can inspect positions, simulate changes and prepare unsigned transactions. Mastercard introduced Agent Connect, allowing agents to exchange product data, assemble carts and

Vortex Needs You

Vortex Needs You

The Humanode project launched back in early 2020, with a small team of 5 people. Many years have passed; we have experienced a brief bull run and a long bear market, launched the first cryptobiometric blockchain, we created the foundational tools for a global egalitarian financial system, created tools for

Humanode Newsletter Vol. 122

Humanode Newsletter Vol. 122

Dear Human Nodes, August gave Vortex a Court. We shipped Vortex Alpha v0.3 with the reporting and Court system ready for review, saw BotKiller go live on Humanode, watched Catacomb Crawlers land on iOS, revisited what “skin in the game” should actually mean, and kept following one problem across

Vortex Alpha v.0.3: Courts Dev Log #20 - From Reports To Verdicts

Vortex Alpha v.0.3: Courts Dev Log #20 - From Reports To Verdicts

Governance needs a credible way to address conduct that ordinary proposals and votes cannot resolve. A report must preserve the record that prompted it. A case must protect the people involved. A jury must receive enough information to decide without gaining access to material it has no right to see.

Vortex Court on the horizon

Vortex Court on the horizon

The time is nearing for the test phase of the final major piece of Vortex. The Court. Like courts around the world, it is based on the law of the land, in this case, the Humanode Codex. Like justice systems around the world, there will be juries, and active governors

Meet $BOTK: A Memecoin With a Bot-Hunting Browser Game on Humanode

Meet $BOTK: A Memecoin With a Bot-Hunting Browser Game on Humanode

Meet $BOTK: A Memecoin With a Bot-Hunting Browser Game on the Humanode Chain The Humanode ecosystem has a new memecoin that powers a cool browser-based shooter game and a very direct message to bots. Meet $BOTK, built by the Botkiller team. The token launched with a fixed supply

Humanode Newsletter vol.121

Humanode Newsletter vol.121

Dear Human Nodes, The last few weeks were busy. We shipped two substantial Vortex updates, joined Internet Court as a founding partner, rebuilt humanode.io, hosted a Fireside with Vlad Nazar of ChainGPT, opened a new WeHMND/WETH biostaking pool, and kept digging into the problems that appear once machines

Dev Log #19 - A Better Way To Write And Read Proposals

Dev Log #19 - A Better Way To Write And Read Proposals

Governance begins long before a vote is cast. It begins when someone tries to turn an idea into a proposal that other people can understand, challenge, and eventually decide on. That authoring experience has been rebuilt across Vortex. The new Proposal Wizard guides authors from their first decision to a

Democracy Has an Uptime Problem

Democracy Has an Uptime Problem

Finite attention and the hidden inequality of decentralized governance “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology Decentralized governance usually describes equality through the distribution of political weight. Proof-of-stake assigns influence through capital. Token voting translates ownership into power. Humanode begins

Humanode Website Revamped

Humanode Website Revamped

The internet has no idea you’re human, and the things pretending to be you are getting good at it. AI agents argue in your replies, farm your airdrops, and vote in your DAOs, manufacturing activity faster than anyone can check it. Most of the internet still defends itself by

ChatGPT-Level Onboarding for Onchain Agents: The Missing Piece for Agentic Commerce

ChatGPT-Level Onboarding for Onchain Agents: The Missing Piece for Agentic Commerce

The Gap in First Experiences Tools like Claude Code are powerful for reasoning and coding, but they don’t have built-in image generation, video generation, or heavy GPU compute for serious modelling. To give agents these real capabilities, you need to connect them to external services. But there’s

ENS Just Proved the Quiet Failure of Token Governance

ENS Just Proved the Quiet Failure of Token Governance

If you need a live, on-chain demo of why "decentralized governance" is often just a marketing term slapped on a plutocracy, watch one delegate with roughly 50% of the voting power veto a security council proposal and call it democracy. The whole thing looks like drama from

Vortex Sim Dev Log #18 - Feed Routing, Invision Truth, And Initiatives

Vortex Sim Dev Log #18 - Feed Routing, Invision Truth, And Initiatives

Updated: 2026-06-30 * Rebuilt Feed routing around explicit, shared scope rules. * Added a dedicated System feed for legitimacy, decentralization, and stability events. * Corrected Invision decision closure and documented every status band through hover hints and Vortexopedia. * Fixed Formation tier-credit timing at the M1 acceptance boundary. * Improved proposal source