Vortex Dev Log 5 is out. This one tightens the edges.

Failure paths are now explicit. Proposals that miss quorum or vote windows actually end. Feeds reflect why things failed. Lists stay honest about state.

It also brings CM surfaces to life. You can now see contribution totals, breakdowns, and history across profiles, governance, and chambers. Plus a first pass on feeds, activity, and profiles that feels more grounded.

If you’ve been following along, the latest update is here: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2019830244132417817?s=20

Humanode Community Call starts in 30 minutes in Discord - Radio channel.

We will discuss and show how Vortex will function, with the latest updates to the app we will use for governance.

🚨 Emergency rotation of Biomapper CVM. If you are a Biostaker user, biomap again to continue getting rewards.

Partners and integrators - you don't need to take any actions but notify your community about the new Biomapper server generation.

All other Humanode Core developed infra and services are unaffected.

if you weren't able to join the 3rd Community call last Saturday, here's a recap on what we talked about: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2020844492287578332?s=20

Humanode Biomapper C2 is now live on MegaETH mainnet.

This is for teams building on MegaETH who want “one human = one wallet” without turning their dApp into a KYC desk.

Congrats to the MegaETH team on mainnet day. Glad to be part of what ships on top of it.

Details: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2020931179923505207?s=20

Thank you all for your participation in the very first Humanode Music Contest!

Although many of the songs were purely AI-generated, we also had real maestros write and perform for the contest! Even the Humanode Core team had a blast writing lyrics and trying to awaken their musical talents.

Naturally, it was not only the awakening of the creativity as an individual and as a community that was fun, seeing how the current models of AIs see the message of Humanode as they put it to song was also a learning experience.

Once again, thanks for the fun!

And now, the time has come to vote on the winners!

As many of you had previously mentioned, going through all of the entries to vote was way too time-consuming for the AI video contest (3min x 40 entries + another 30 min for the final round + time clicking and loading = nearly 3 hours of your life that could have been used for better things…), this time the Core team has selected our 13 favorite tunes out of all the entries (minus the ones done by the team members). The community is to vote on the 13 songs to select your favorite. (Yes, we originally said 10, but all of them were so good, we added three more to avoid fistfights. lol)

Vote once for each group that is posted.

Now, here is the twist this time. The top 3 songs will all receive the Gold prize of $100 (worth of HMND). The 4th to 6th place will receive the Silver prize of $50 (worth of HMND). If there are ties, a second round of voting will happen to “sort things out”.

Other songs have a chance of winning a “special mention” prize for excellence, but you do not need to be in the Top13 for a chance of a “special mention” prize.

Imagine a full “Humanode Album”. Not all songs make it on the final product, but some songs are selected to bring flavor or balance to the album. Thus, the Core team will be making these selections to bring light to some of the songs that were unfortunately not able to win Silver or Gold. These songs will be announced after the voting is over.

One note: all participants will be able to vote in the Humanode Discord Sybil-resistant channel # sr-polls . However, in order to keep things fair, if you were not a participant in the contest (as in if you did not submit a song), and you joined the server after the contest began, your vote will not count for this specific contest. Thank you for your understanding.

The voting round will last 72 hours. Now, go forth and vote!

In the last piece, we looked at how PoBU approaches decentralization as something you can measure using public chain data: validator activity, churn, and block-author concentration.

That naturally raises the next question: what does PoBU treat as “eligibility” in the first place?

Eligible for what? And how does the chain know?

Read it here: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2021512514048331961

Real markets need real people. Eidōlon Clusters makes that happen.

Verified squads each epoch + a bonus for working together, not farming.

Good to see Humanode's verified human used as the check.

If you’re a human node, go grab a spot: https://x.com/episteme_sci/status/2021557162091163649?s=20

dTelecom just added BotBasher to their Discord to keep participation human and rewards honest.

They’re building production-grade real-time comms. Voice. Video. Streaming. AI interactions. The kind of infra where “community numbers” are useless if half of them are bots.

And with Phase 2 of their $2.6M airdrop live, Sybil resistance isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the whole game. If rewards are getting distributed, you want them landing with real users, not multi-account grinders.

That’s what BotBasher adds:
1 human = 1 account.
No KYC. No IDs. No personal data stored. You just prove you’re a unique human, not who you are.

We’re excited to work with dTelecom. And yeah, we’ll be using dMeetApp internally too. Secure, high-quality comms matter when you’re shipping.

Join the Discord, get verified, grab the Real Human role:
https://discord.com/invite/dtelecom

How to get a verified role: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF7zDRvLZ74

Humanode Fireside with Tobias Bauer is now live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0sMHeAnp20

Come to chat and leave some comments!

Vortex Dev Sim Log 6 is out, and yeah, this one is a major update.

We finally have Proposal Engine v1 in place, so proposal creation stops feeling “loose” and starts feeling predictable, with proper guardrails on the server side and a clean boundary between project proposals and system-executable changes. At the same time, the governing threshold model is now real and era-based, so “active governor” isn’t a vague label anymore, it’s derived from your actual voting opportunities and it kicks in deterministically from era E to E+1. And factions v1 is here too, as something that exists in the sim.

Internal deployment is ready, and we’re on the finish line for the public release.

Full dev log: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2022261514284208221?s=20

Dear Humanode Community,

Based on the rules set for the Humanode Music Contest (and after observing some last-minute fishy vote switching and rigging), the team went over all votes to count qualified votes.

As a result, there have been some switches in the final placements for Silver and Gold (3 Silver, 3 Gold).

The results are as follows:

GOLD -

Entry # 2  (33/37 eligible votes)
Entry # 8  (22/24 eligible votes)

Tie -
Entry # 11 (18/20 eligible votes)
Entry # 12 (18/18 eligible votes)

SILVER -

Entry # 3 (16/24 eligible votes)
Entry # 10 (13/19 Eligible votes)

After a discussion, we have decided to go for a tie-breaker vote between Entry # 11 and # 12, as the contestants may have had no control over who the eligible voters were.

The tie-breaker round will last for 72 hours (24 is too short, and 48 isn’t an offered option… sigh), and the winner of the round will get the 3rd Gold, and the one who does not win the round will get the 1st Silver.

The “Special mention” prize winners will be announced when the tie-breaker round has concluded.

As usual, vote at the Humanode Discord # sr-polls channel.  The same rules will apply as before.  Unless you were a member before Jan 27th, 2026, or had submitted a song to the contest, your vote will not count.

The community call starts in about an hour.

Add it to your calendar to get reminders for future calls : https://link.humanode.io/calendar/community-call

If you want some context before joining, you can read the recap from the last call here: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2020844492287578332?s=20

For those of you who were not able to join last Saturday's community call, here's a brief recap on what was discussed: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2023451691102941280

As much as scholars and blockchain developers enjoyed the Humanode PoBU white paper, it is easy to get lost in the concepts and data.

Thus, here is Proof of Biometric Uniqueness in simple terms, just in case you want to explain it to your children, or your parents: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2023736980841132343?s=20

Once again, thanks for your participation in the Humanode Music Contest!
Not only were the songs that were created great, but we also learned much from the process.

In hope of making the voting process less of a chore, we had the Core team select 13 songs (originally scheduled for 10) to move forward to the voting round for all verified humans (pre-verified before the contest) to vote for the Gold and Silver prizes.

And yes, the results are in!

Gold Prizes: (The 3 songs with the most votes)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2E0Yh9WYp4s
https://x.com/Aishakazeemm/status/2019568149784588756
https://x.com/Lightt_d/status/2016710864284332218

Silver Prizes: (The next 3 songs with the most votes)

https://x.com/Web3mannie/status/2018774147615101128
https://x.com/Temmie_sarah/status/2017901592515661873
https://x.com/HassanA57281157/status/2019141443412193336


And the following songs receive the “notable mention” prize, for being songs that the Core team felt needed mentioning, even if they did not land a Gold, Silver, or make it in the final round. (Do remember, though, we only added 5 songs here… if we had an unlimited budget, everyone would have received a prize!)

https://x.com/sixsigma1476168/status/2018359179896136110
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUZjWw3CGF_/
https://x.com/punterxyzz/status/2019777131807391894
https://x.com/njerimwareri/status/2019840035886190897
https://x.com/GypsyKrypton/status/2018851743476613363

We would like to ask the winners to PM @ princessfiona in the Humanode Discord.

As a note, as in the last contest, some of the “old-world” shenanigans seemed to have been ongoing at the voting stage. There were several new accounts that tried to join the voting after the contest had started (either sockpuppeting or calling in friends and family for help). Votes also seemed to be moved around in the last 20 minutes, perhaps as a coordinated effort to elevate a few select people (or share votes with friends that needed perhaps a few extra to be elevated to get a prize).

It is good to have friends. It is good to help friends. And yes, voting is a democratic process, so there is nothing we can do to stop it, other than to remove the votes that were not eligible due to the set rules based on the technical limitations of the Discord application.

Having said that, we hope that the Humanode community will grow and mature enough to value the hard work and talent of everyone participating in these contests. These contests serve as a way to elevate the creativity and unity of the Community, as well as help spread the word. Simply put, they are not to be treated as a “money grab” for specific friends and family or groups.

If how some of the community members vote during contests shows signs of becoming the “norm”, we may have to reconsider if we, as a community, should continue contests for the community or not.

And sadly, if this ends up being how people vote in Vortex, it would truly be disappointing. (Please remember, we are striving to build the foundation for the future, not create the means for a group of people to try to grab power, or to give it away, for quick gains)

In any case, once again, congratulations to the winners, and to everyone who participated in creating Humanode-themed music. You all rock!