Humanode Core

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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

Partnerships

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

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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

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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

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;

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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,

BioDeFi

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

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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’

Humanode 1.0

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,

Chain integration

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.

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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

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

Partnerships

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

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

announcement

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

Use Case

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

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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

vortex

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

Article

Exploring Anti-Sybil Approaches: Proof of Humanity Protocol

The internet is under siege, not by hackers or malware, but by an overwhelming flood of bots and AI-generated content. Forget "decentralization," forget "blockchain revolution."Every online community, crypto or not, faces the same challenge: distinguishing real humans from fake ones.  This is about basic online

BioDeFi

The new WeHMND/USDC LP staking contract will be live soon

Reminder: As you know, current WeHMND/USDC LP staking contract (0xA9dC5E129df2D195db34807847EfeDC1eCE5f924) will come to an end on June 1st, 2025, at block 13077390. The new WeHMND/USDC LP staking contract will pick up at the same block where the previous one ends, same 14,400 WeHMND/day, same nonlinear staking

Humanode Biweekly vol.98

Humanode manifesto + New whitepaper; Biomapper is now on Unichain; Vote on validator fee rules; HumanodeCon 2025 this September in Bucharest; A Short History of Decentralized Systems; Humanode Fireside Friday is on, and more. TL;DR Dear Humanodes, The past two weeks have been intense, in the best way possible. From

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Community Poll: Deciding on Validator Fee Distribution Rule

Dear Human Nodes, Following our recent announcement regarding the temporary change to the validator fee distribution, we’ve seen an outpouring of thoughtful suggestions and valuable discussion from the community. First off, thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts, and as always, we want to ensure that important decisions are

Biomapper

How to add Sybil resistance to your dApp on Unichain

Unichain is a high-performance Layer 2 blockchain built on Optimism's OP Stack, designed to deliver fast finality, low fees, and scalable DeFi infrastructure. Whether you're building DeFi dApps, identity protocols, or Web3 games, Sybil resistance is key to keeping your platform fair and secure. Humanode Biomapper

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Human nodes' fee distribution update

Dear Human Nodes, Today, we are announcing an upcoming temporary change to the validator fee distribution. Roughly a year ago, we modified the validator fee system so that up to 1000 validator nodes would earn full rewards for having at least 82/84 epochs, and those who managed to get

Humanode 1.0

A Short History of Decentralized Systems - Part 2

In the first part, we’ve seen decentralization evolve from tribal councils to peer-to-peer file sharing, from Bitcoin’s trustless value transfer to Ethereum’s world computer. We’ve watched DAOs experiment with governance and IPFS decentralized storage. And we’ve seen the same issues resurface: * Consensus mechanisms rewarding capital