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vortex

Vortex Alpha v0.2 - The UI/Design Overhaul

Vortex Alpha v0.2 is the first release where the simulator stops looking like a collection of governance screens and starts feeling like one designed civic system. This update is a full UI and design overhaul across the Vortex app surface. It rebuilds navigation, visual hierarchy, theme identity, proposal cards,

Partnerships

WURK integrates Agentlink

WURK.fun is the work layer for agent commerce on x402. AI agents call WURK to hire real humans for microtasks: X raids, replies on questions, comments, polls, social engagement campaigns paid per response in USDC. As of today, agents linked through Agentlink to a verified-unique human via Humanode

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Make Humanode Click: Infographic Contest!

Have you been waiting for the next Humanode contest? Well, here it is. This time, the Humanode team invites you all to join the Humanode Infographic Contest. These days, AI can draw, design, polish, and probably argue with you about font choices. But the real job is still human: knowing

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Agentlink launches on Base

Agentic commerce is forming on Base via x402, the emerging onchain payment standard for AI agents. The services that can tell human-linked agents apart from disposable wallets will price differently than the services that can't. Agentlink is the layer we built to make that distinction possible. Wallets,

Partnerships

Xona integrates Agentlink

XONA is a creative AI agent on x402. Other agents call it to generate premium images and video, paid per call via x402 micropayments. As of today, agents that have linked to a verified human through Agentlink and Humanode Biomapper get free generations from XONA. Image and video generation is

humanode ecosystem

Agentlink: Bringing Proof of Human to the Agentic Web

Agentlink brings Proof of Human to the agentic web. And it uses Humanode under the hood. The first wave of AI agent services is about to repeat the same predictable, expensive mistake. They will launch freemium tiers, watch them get absolutely drained overnight by armies of scripted wallets and Sybil

proto-vortex

Validator Fee Structure Update and Vortex Governance Rewards

Dear Human Nodes, With the launch of the Vortex Simulator (or proto-Vortex) and the invitation for Human Nodes to begin their journey toward participating as governors of Humanode - holding voting power in Humanode’s decisions and gaining a real voice in its future - we will be implementing several changes

vortex

Vortex-simulator (Proto-Vortex) Alpha v0.2  is live

Alpha v0.2 is now available for testing. This release makes Vortex feel much more like a real living system instead of a static simulator. The biggest update is inVision, which now shows the state of the system in a much more meaningful way. You can now see core metrics

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Humanode on Substack

Humanode has opened a Substack. Over time, the work around Humanode has touched subjects that move slowly and carry weight. Identity on the internet. Sybil resistance. governance. privacy. the structure of digital societies. the limits of systems that measure participation through capital alone. These topics rarely unfold well inside short

Community calls

Community Call Recap 6

Another week, another Community Call.  The attendance was low this time, which is rather surprising considering the topics being discussed and the impact the participants can hold in the future of Vortex, and DAOs in general.  But the work continues, and progress is being made. The main topic of this

Biomapper

Biomapper C2 deployed on Polygon Network

It feels like just yesterday when Biomapper first went live on the very first EVM-compatible chain, where it brought uniqueness verification onchain and proved that one human = one wallet could actually work. Since then, Biomapper has expanded far beyond that first deployment, powering Sybil resistance across multiple chains and

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Announcing the very first Humanode Music Contest

If anyone reading this article remembers that catchy song from the very first Humanode Got Talent contest that went on singing “Huma-node, Huma-node, Huma-node”, I am sure you will agree that it is time to find a new tune to wipe that one from your memory. (Well,

proto-vortex

Proto-Vortex update Jan 5

Who would have expected the world to have aged another year while we were busy working?  As our team was working on updating the proto-Vortex during the “holiday season”, we woke up to a new year without knowing it, but it feels good. Proto-Vortex is getting closer and

BotBasher

Polana Network Integrates BotBasher in its Discord

Growing a Discord community is supposed to feel good. More people, more energy, more conversation. But sometimes growth arrives without the people behind it. Polana Network ran into a problem that a lot of Discord servers quietly live with. Their Discord jumped by almost 20,000 users in about two

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Vortex Demo UI Released

Today, we are happy to announce the release of the demo version of Vortex and its UI. No, this version is not onchain.  Yes, these are the various functions we currently envision, and you are free to go through them and play with the demo version here.  Do note that

proto-vortex

Updates to the proto-Vortex flow

Each day, we learn something new, especially during the proof-of-concept phase of a project.  After the first two rounds of proto-Vortex, the co-founders of Humanode got together to review the process and map out the changes needed to better reflect the actual flow of how Vortex

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Shardeum chose Biomapper to keep its airdrop Sybil-resistant

Shardeum, an L1 Blockchain that prides itself in building an onchain ecosystem that is focused on India, has become one of the smartest chains when talking about airdrops. Like many emerging chains, Shardeum launched an EVM Testnet Quest in order to validate their core EVM functionality at scale. In the

Biomapper

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?

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Botbasher is kicking and free

Hi, I’m BotBasher, remember me?  Of course you do.  I am that super cool plug-in/gadget that allows anyone who hosts a Discord Server, or has a Telegram channel to create a “Human only” chatroom.  I know, I know.  Discord has all of those other useful bots that

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Humanode's first AI video contest is live!

Have you been missing the Humanode contests?  Well, today, the Humanode team invites you all to Humanode’s first AI Video contest!  In this day and age of AI assisting with content creation, and the role of the human having been moved to putting the message together and feeding the

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Biomapper now on Ethereum and BNB chain

This past half a year or so, Humanode has focused on spreading Biomapper to various chains, providing developers the ability to create Sybil-resistant dApps or projects utilizing the Humanode Biomapper on the chain they work with.   And now, to wrap up the mission of spreading Biomapper with crossbridge functionality,

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Invitation to the proto-Vortex

With the coding of Vortex on its way, it is time to launch “proto-Vortex”, which will act as the stepping stone for those interested in participating in Vortex when the time comes. As with many of the stepping stones, please treat proto-Vortex as a proof-of-concept initiative.

Biomapper

Biomapper C2 deployed on Somnia

Somnia gives builders the room to dream up connected worlds from games to digital communities. But those worlds mean nothing if bots and spammers are the ones running them. That’s why Biomapper is now deployed on Somnia. With the Biomapper, builders can make sure the people behind their dApps

vortex

The Dawn of Proto-Vortex

Ever since its inception, Humanode has been tirelessly moving forward with its mission to create a consensus mechanism that is equal and fair, that allows the participation of all, no matter who you are or where you are from, a system that gives people a voice, and where money cannot

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5 reasons why Humanode is excited about Catacomb Crawlers

As the day of the private hybrid funding round of Catacomb Crawlers nears, we thought it would be a good time to review what Catacomb Crawlers means to Humanode and why the Humanode team is excited about it. Reason 1: Catacomb Crawlers is the first major project to deploy on