Humanode Biweekly vol.96
Biomapper C1 SDK now live on Scroll and Manta; BotBasher is still standing strong — still free, still smashing bots across Discord and Telegram; ZenChain vs. the Sybils; Fireside this Friday, May 2.
TL;DR
Another two weeks, another wave of progress. The Humanode machine keeps moving — new chains, new updates, and old friends getting stronger.
The dev team has been grinding hard as always, pushing through Substrate upgrades, fresh UX improvements, Biomapper SDK updates, and dropping minor updates on the Humanode mainnet website.
Cross-chain biomapping also continues to expand, as Biomapper C1 has now gone live on several new ecosystems. This expansion is getting serious with Biomapper c1 now live on Manta, the rising star of modular ecosystems. With just a few lines of code, builders on Manta can plug in Humanode’s privacy-first biometric magic and make "one human = one account" a reality. No data exposure, no creepy KYC — just proof you’re alive and unique. And we’re not stopping there. Biomapper c1 also just landed on Scroll, one of the leading zk-rollups aiming to build the Open Economy. Scroll’s all about scalability and accessibility — and now, it’s about real humans too.
In case you missed it, Biomapper has already made itself at home on Arbitrum, Janction testnet, Hyperliquid and Story (don’t forget Sonic, Sei, Base, Filecoin, and Avalanche). Layer by layer, chain by chain, we’re wiring human uniqueness into Web3’s foundations. Real users, real networks, real possibilities.
Meanwhile, don’t forget about the OG Humanode Sybil-smasher: BotBasher. Still free, still deadly to bots, still saving communities from Sybil attacks on Discord and Telegram. Shoutout to ZenChain for showing how it's done — they integrated BotBasher into their server last December, tied it to their airdrop quest system, and now their community is built on verified humans, not fake accounts. No bots. No multi-accounters. Just real people earning real rewards. If you're running a server and you’re tired of the bot wars, you know what to do.
And in case you missed it — we’re bringing back something special. Humanode Fireside is officially rekindled. Join us this Friday, May 2nd, at 2 PM UTC on Humanode Discord Radio. No presentations, no scripts. Just real talk, open updates, Q&A, and good vibes. Whether you’re a validator, a builder, or just Humanode-curious, pull up a chair and hang out with us. It’s been too long.
The mission hasn’t changed — one human, one node, one voice. It’s bigger than tech. It’s about trust, truth, and building a digital world where being human matters again. Thanks for building it with us.
See you at the Fireside!
🛠️ Development
The Humanode development team has been hard at work. Here’s what’s new:
- Substrate Upgrades – Ongoing optimizations and refinements to bolster the Humanode network.
- Cross-Chain Biomapping – live on Avalanche, Base, and Filecoin, Sei Network, Sonic, etc, with other chains to follow.
- UX Enhancements – Cleaner, smoother, more intuitive.
- Biomapper SDK Updates – Easier deployment for devs.
- Mainnet Website Redesign – A fresh look and improved user experience.
⛓️ Cross-chain Biomapping
🧿 Biomapper c1 deployed on Manta
The Biomapper c1 SDK is now available on Manta, the go-to multi-modular ecosystem. For those new to Biomapper, the Humanode Biomapper is one of the core tools of Humanode, a cryptobiometric Layer-1 Blockchain where one human = one node = one vote, known for its use of private biometrics to fight Sybil attacks. It is the tool that not only keeps biometrics private and secure from third parties but also keeps data secret from even Humanode. All the system will ever know is if the face that it just scanned is in the system or not, and ensuring that the face is only tied to one account or wallet address.
No matter how two-faced a user can be, unless they biologically have two faces, one user, one account can be made the standard with just a few lines of code for those who build on Manta.
For those interested in adding Biomapper to their built apps, or have brand new ideas for possible services you can build with Sybil-resistance on Manta, check out the SDK and the developer's guide below!
📙 Here’s how to integrate Sybil resistance with just a few lines of code.
📜 Biomapper c1 deployed on Scroll
As the importance of Sybil-resistance in critical applications and services rises by the day, Biomapper has been etched in the scrolls of time as a key factor. As requested, Biomapper c1 SDK is now available on Scroll, allowing builders and developers to utilize Biomapper’s unique, private, and secure bioauthentication with just a few lines of code.
One user, one account? Yes, with ease. Sybil-resistant airdrops or contests? Naturally. No need for users to go through a long and painful KYC process to verify that they are unique; all one needs is to prove their uniqueness with the Biomapper, while maintaining their privacy.
For those who do not know what Scroll is, Scroll is a leading zero-knowledge rollup actively building the Open Economy for everyone, everywhere. It leverages fast finality and high throughput, with the goal of creating a more accessible and secure onchain future that ascends beyond the current limitations and drives real-world impact.
📙 Here's how to add Proof of Personhood with just a few lines of code using Biomapper.
Previously:
🔷Biomapper C1 deployed on Arbitrum
For those of you who may not be tech-savvy, Arbitrum is a Layer-2 blockchain that speeds up and lowers the cost of transactions on Ethereum. Arbitrum aims to enhance the scalability, security, and accessibility on the Ethereum chain, and already has 900+ dApps running on its chain.
📙 How to verify real users in your Arbitrum dApp?
🌀Biomapper C1 went live on Janction Testnet
JANCTION is a popular L2 chain focusing on AI on JASMY, Japan's largest Web3 project. JANCTION is on their testnet, getting ready for mainnet launch. With Biomapper on JANCTION testnet, apps and services being developed on JANCTION will be able to provide Sybil-resistance by utilizing the private and secure biometric authentication of Biomapper from the get go!
📙 Integrating Biomapper with your dApp on Janction
And don’t forget Biomapper C1 is live on
🔵 Base
○ Filecoin
📅 Why do Biomapper Generations change every six months?
Ever wondered why Biomapper switches generations every 6 months? It's about protecting data privacy, staying ahead of cyber threats, and ensuring active users. This means wiping old CVMs, renewing security keys, and refreshing smart contracts.
Here's the complete breakdown.
🤳How to Biomap
Whether you're verifying for the first time or bridging your biomap, Humanode Biomapper keeps it simple, and convenient; connect your wallet, do a quick face scan, sign a message, and you're verified. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of how to Biomap.
🤝Integrations
🤖 BotBasher is still here. Still free. Still bashing bots
With the emergence of Biomapper c1, it is easy to forget about another one of Humanode’s champions of Sybil-resistance, BotBasher.
For those new to BotBasher, BotBasher is a tool provided by Humanode that enables Sybil-resistance on both Discord and Telegram. It is not only free to use, but it can save the servers and users from headaches of having to fight bots, scammers, and spammers.
Want to create a chat that is not filled with bots or multi-accounts? Tired of Sybil attacks? Want to do Sybil-resistant airdrops or whitelisting?
Interested in Sybil-resistant community gatherings, lectures, and AMA’s? Interested in learning how many real users your server or project actually has? Here is your reminder.
⛩ ZenChain’s Battle Against Sybils with BotBasher
It is said that no snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. Thus, it was only natural that BotBasher found its place in the ZenChain Discord Server last December.
In trying to develop a better and stronger community that was fair, many of their obstacles stemmed from Sybil attacks or Sybil accounts. So the ZenChain team had asked a simple question, “What if we could find a way to ensure that every snowflake, or in this case, a user, is unique?”. The obstacle was the path that led them to BotBasher, Humanode’s private and secure biometric authentication that can tie one user to a single Discord account.
BotBasher only has one function. To see if the user who is authenticating is in the system, thus currently tied to an account, or not. The heavily encrypted data, which does not include the original biometric data, can only be used for that function and is completely wiped from the system every six months. No one, not even ZenChain or Humanode, can access that data.
How ZenChain uses the role that a user is assigned after verifying that they are a unique user is simple but powerful.
ZenChain has its own airdrop questing platform (https://zenquest.zenchain.io/), where participants can earn points by having certain roles in the Discord server. They basically made it necessary to hold the verified human role in order to obtain all other roles in the server.
So, if you are interested in airdrops on ZenChain, you need to prove that you are a unique user.
The ZenChain team tells Humanode that “BotBasher has really helped in filtering out multi-accounts/botters/sybil attackers”.
With another upcoming round of Airdrops on ZenChain on the way, the Humanode team is confident that the BotBasher will fulfil its role in making sure that every user participating has a living, unique user behind their account.
Awareness & Events
🔥Fireside Rekindled
It’s been a while, and we’ve honestly been missing Humanode Fireside. That’s why we’re bringing it back this Friday, May 2, at 2 PM UTC on Humanode Discord Radio.
Join us as we catch up on everything happening in the Humanode ecosystem, share updates, answer your questions, and just hang out — the way we used to.
Whether you're a builder, a human node, or just someone curious about what we’re building, pull up to the Fireside this Friday.
🗓️ Date: Friday, May 2
🕑 Time: 2 PM UTC
📍 Where: Humanode Discord Radio.
Vortex
From Tokens to Humans: Vortex Redefines DAO Power
Most DAOs today follow a simple formula: Buy tokens = Get power.
It doesn’t matter who you are.
It doesn’t matter what you know.
If you have enough money, you call the shots.
This system was supposed to decentralize power. Instead, it handed control to whales and insiders, where 1% of users often control 90% of the votes. Participation is low. Vote buying is common. And real community-driven governance is rare.
Humanode’s Vortex offers a different path. Instead of tying governance to money, Vortex ties it to people. At the foundation of Vortex is a simple idea: One human = one node = one vote. Using Humanode’s biometric verification, every validator proves they are a unique, living human, without revealing their personal identity. That means no bots. No multiple wallets. No fake accounts.
But Vortex goes even further. It doesn’t just ask, "Are you real?" It also asks, "Are you active?" and "Are you contributing?" Governance rights in Vortex are built through participation:
1. Running a node
2. Voting actively
3. Submitting valuable proposals
4. Contributing to real projects
Over time, governors build a record of participation, called the Cognitocratic Measure (CM), a way to track meaningful contributions. Those who consistently help the ecosystem grow can rise through governance tiers, gaining more ability to propose changes or even veto harmful proposals.
🗺️ Roadmap
✨ The Road to Humanode ver. 1.0
For four years, we’ve been building toward a vision – a future where decentralization isn’t just about distribution, but about uniqueness and fairness. Where 1 human = 1 node = 1 vote isn’t just a tagline, but the foundation of how governance, finance, and digital identity can work.
We’ve come far. The world’s first operational one-person-one-node blockchain is live. 500K+ real humans bio-authenticated. Humanode EVM launched. Biomapper is on the verge of going cross-chain. But this is just the start.
Now, we’re taking the next leap with Humanode ver. 1.0, laying down the foundation for a truly decentralized, Sybil-resistant future.
The Four Pillars of Humanode ver. 1.0
♦️ SRGate – A universal identity for Web3
♦️ Vortex – The governance body where 1 human = 1 vote
♦️ True Decentralization – Growing from 1,500 to 10,000 nodes on the path to 1 million
♦️ Ecosystem Growth – More devs, more dApps, more adoption
LP Staking
🚀🌱The WBTC/WeHMND biostaking pool on Impossible Finance DEX
You can pair WBTC with WeHMND, add liquidity, biomap and stake your LP tokens to provide liquidity to the Humanode network and get non-linear rewards.
Here’s what you need to know:
- As always, APR depends on your size: the smaller your share of the liquidity pool, the more % you get.
- You can now pair your WBTC (Wrapped BTC) with WeHMND (Wrapped eHMND) tokens to provide liquidity and stake your LP tokens.There is almost 0 liquidity as of now, keep an eye on the DEX prices.
- The staking period ends in 6 months, and rewards are the same as the WETH/WeHMND pool.
Useful links:
1. Swap HMND to eHMND: https://evm-playground.mainnet.stages.humanode.io/swap/native-to-evm
2. Bridge WBTC to Humanode: https://app.chainport.io/
3. Add Liquidity: https://app.impossible.finance/liquidity/add/0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000802/0xD241d51CF9152d63d9b04645125B36A51c147c15
4. Biostaker: https://mainnet.biostaker.hmnd.app/
🫂 Ecosystem Funding Program
The Humanode Ecosystem Funding and Incubation Program is here! We're backing five projects focused on unique human user adoption, each powered by Sybil-resistant tech on our chain. The first project is already feeling the love from human nodes, and there’s more to come.
Learn more about the incubation program here.
For more information, check out Humanode’s:
▲ Website
▲ GitHub
▲ Discord
▲ Youtube