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Stop blaming AI for things people choose to do

Stop blaming AI for things people choose to do

A few weeks into 2026, timelines on X flooded with sexually explicit deepfake images. Many were AI-generated depictions of real people, sometimes without consent, sometimes involving minors, created using xAI’s Grok. The reaction wasn’t quiet. Regulators launched investigations. The California Attorney General issued a cease-and-desist order demanding an

What prediction market builders are missing about Sybils

What prediction market builders are missing about Sybils

There was a day in late 2025 when the numbers on prediction markets stopped feeling like probabilities and started feeling like predictions without evidence. You’d watch a contract on a major election or a macro outcome barely trade, and before the underlying data had even begun to materialize, the

When Your Game Economy Starts Lying to You

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When Your Game Economy Starts Lying to You

There’s a moment most game builders know but rarely talk about out loud. You launch an event, watch the economy tick up, and something feels off. Rewards get claimed too fast. Leaderboards look too clean, or worse, too strange. Your balance tweaks don’t move the needle the way

Exploring Anti-Sybil Approaches: Humanity Protocol

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Exploring Anti-Sybil Approaches: Humanity Protocol

AI generated content is everywhere. It fills timelines, writes comments, and even runs accounts that look convincingly human. As AI agents start posting, trading, and joining communities, the internet’s biggest question is shifting from “What’s real?” to “Who’s real?” Recent reports back this up. A16z’s October

Kima network adopts Humanode BotBasher for sybil-resistant airdrop

Kima network adopts Humanode BotBasher for sybil-resistant airdrop

We’re past the era where airdrops were just “connect wallet, click claim.” Smart teams reward real users with real impact. That’s why Kima Network is embedding Humanode’s BotBasher into its Discord to make sure every airdrop is claimed by a unique human, not a farm of wallets

Sybil Attacks and the Fight for Sybil Resistance – Explained

Sybil Attacks and the Fight for Sybil Resistance – Explained

The internet runs on an assumption so obvious that most folks don’t even notice it. One person equals one account. One mind, one voice, one vote, one reward. That’s how Facebook counts its “daily active users.” That’s how X shows you followers. That’s how an online

Exploring Anti-Sybil Approaches: Civic

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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

History of Sybil Resistance in Governance and Economy - Part II

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,