Sybil-resistance at your fingertips. The Biomapper option
With the need and desire for privacy and security growing with each and every passing moment, and the financial hurdles and loss in user experience that bots and Sybils generate, perhaps it is time for developers to consider what the Humanode Biomapper can bring to the table.
What is Biomapper? Simple. It is a tool that allows a user to prove their biometric uniqueness to their EVM wallet or user account, proving that a real, live human being is behind the account. It is also a tool that can be used to replace CAPTCHA, and at times, KYC.
What it is not, is a tool to gather private biometric information, nor is it a tool used to gather and disseminate personal identifiable information.
Yes, in this day and age where personal information seems to be an exploitable commodity, Humanode decided to offer the world an alternative. A way to prove the most important question that the projects and developers have. Is this user real? Or is it a multi-account/Sybil, or a bot. Are our users real or not?
And with users becoming fatigued by the daily abuse of corporations and AI databases “stealing” more and more of their Personally Identifiable Information, having the means to prove that they are real users, without needing to hand out your biometrics or personal information, nor facing the risk of losing even more of their privacy, is a golden opportunity that almost sounds too good to be true. Yes, the user will need to go through a one-time 15-second process of a face scan to go through a liveness check, and to confirm that they are not already in the system, but they will not be giving out raw biometric data. (link to Biomapper privacy and security below)
Naturally, this technology can be considered to be disruptive technology. As in, the providers of the dApps or Web3 services will be faced with how many actual users they have. No more inflated number of users. A product or service that could have claimed that they had “1 million users!” if they could have counted all of the bot or Sybil accounts, may be faced with the reality that they only have 2039 users (or live humans behind the accounts, with 1300 of them being family members of the real user). This may become an inconvenience, especially when they were planning to bring in the big bucks from the VCs, who required you to have X amount of users.
Knowing the truth can be painful. But if the truth allows you to see what you are working with, how they react to your strategy, and how you can grow… it may be worth more than millions of fake users.
If dApps, Web3 services, and even SNS were able to clearly, and proudly say “we have X REAL users!”, it could become a true indicator of how good your service is, y and may attract real money from VCs who are interested in growth, and perhaps advertisers who have specific target audiences that they want to reach.
What services and dApps are the best fits for Biomepper?
The simple answer is any dApp or service, but to be specific, here are some ideas.
- Any service/dApp that wishes to place a one-user one-account policy.
- DEFi services that depend upon having real users, not bots or algorithms behind their accounts, and would rather not have to 100% depend upon costly KYC services.
- GameFi projects or games with marketplaces that want to reward real users, not bots or bot farms.
- Whitelisting and/or Airdrop services.
- Community interaction platforms, say, for contests, polls, voting, and human-only chatrooms.
- NFT or other marketplaces.
- Platforms for AI agents (to prove that there is a real human being behind the specific agent).
- Etc.
One benefit of having Biomapper tied to user accounts (or EVM wallets tied to the service or accounts), is the fact that only one EVM address can be tied to one unique biometrics. If, for some reason, a user gets banned or booted from the system/service, the said banned user would not be able to just turn around and create a different account with a different name, address, and credit card. They would need a fresh set of biometrics to create an account. Yes, sockpuppeting is possible, but unlike bots, there is a finite number of human beings on the planet.
Now, here is the good news for the developers. Although developing your service and dApp on the Humanode Chain is naturally the way to go (from the Humanode standpoint), Biomapper C2 goes crosschain, and can currently be used on the following chains: Humanode, Avalanche, Base, Filecoin, Sonic, Sei, Hyperliquid EVM, Story, Arbitrum One, Manta Pacific Mainnet, Scroll, Hemi, Nibiru Cataclysm-1, Unichain, Linea, Metis Andromeda Mainnet, Botanix, Aurora, Vanar, Soneium, Ontology, Etherlink, XRPL EVM, Wanchain, Fuse, Monad Testnet, Ethereum, Somnia, BNB Smart Chain, Sardeum.
If you have dreamed of making your dApp or service Sybil-resistant, or if the desire to go “spam bot-free” has crossed your mind, perhaps it is time to take a look at Biomapper today.
For Biomapper documentation, visit: https://docs.biomapper.hmnd.app/
For Biomapper SDK : https://humanode-network.github.io/biomapper-sdk/
For the Biomapper app: https://mainnet.biomapper.hmnd.app/
For information on Biomapper security and how it protects user privacy: https://blog.humanode.io/understanding-biomappers-privacy-and-security-approach/
For more information on Humanode: https://humanode.io