🔺[Humanode Special Interview Series] 🔺

Dmitry, consensus protocol and DLT engineer at Humanode, discusses memorable moments of the Sachiel testnet, shares his vision for Humanode, talks about his background, aspirations, hobbies, and goals in life.

https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-special-interview-dmitry/

5th batch invitations were sent out.

The number of human nodes we admit to the testnet = how many nodes will break Granpa and Aura.

Thus the number of batches for Sachiel is still an open question.

As of now there are 6164 applicants.

Really delighted to see so many people willing to test it out without any obvious incentivization.

Thank you for your patience.

What Proof of Human Existence Can Do - Victor, Founder of Humanode

This week, Victor featured on The Encrypted Economy Podcast. The discussion spans not only human node validation and biometrics, but privacy and macro economics.

Topics covered:
- Introduction
- Victor’s background
- What is Humanode?
- Biometrics
- Liveness detection
- The Vortex DAO
- Fath monetary system
- Artificial Intelligence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjY6bX4D9Rg

🔺Tune in on your favorite podcast app here!🔺

🔺The Humanode Whitepaper is now on GitBook 🔺

Dear human nodes and community members,

We've just published our Whitepaper v. 0.9.6 “You are [not] a bot” on GitBook.

This whitepaper will be diving deep into the philosophy, core concepts, technological details, the mathematics and cryptography that support the groundbreaking cryptobiometric network, and the world changing vision behind Humanode.

Check it out and participate in the first-ever Humanode testnet in between!

https://whitepaper.humanode.io/

In this latest Humanode dev update, we'd like to share some bullet points to shine some light on the exciting advancements that our development team has been working on!

Humanode Network
🔺Implemented timestamp instead of block number at bio-authentication
🔺Fixed the bio-authentication keys display
🔺Corrected bio-authentication flow error and status reporting
🔺Added smoke-test for the node code at CI
🔺Received 6000+ testnet applications
🔺150+ participants already interacting with face detection and faucet in testnet
🔺Updated testnet documentation on GitHub and Gitbook

Humanode Desktop App
🔺Generated QR code based on ngrok auto detect
🔺Completed initial ngrok integration
🔺Fixed manifest generation noscript
🔺Added node settings for RPC URL mode
🔺Added manifest generation noscript
🔺Changed installing flow and added workspace
🔺Upgraded Material-UI from version 4 to 5
🔺Added better UI for picking binaries
🔺Used dedicated QR library

Crypto-Biometric Search And Matching And Liveness Algorithms
🔺Refactored code for data preparation and trained weights.
🔺Included the weights for face detection and tools packages
🔺Included the pretrained weights for passive liveness detection
🔺Made a demo website for passive liveness detection
🔺Modified alignment method for random cropping and added evaluation code for FASNetB based liveness detection
🔺Created Key-Switch protocol for lattice-based encryption scheme

Biweekly update on @Humanode vol. 8

1st October — 15th October

Sachiel is in full swing with >6.3K applicants, Internal tests of Humanode app, Humanode founder Victor on ‘The Encrypted Economy’ podcast, An interview with Humanode developer Dmitry, Biometric-based launchpads overview, Sachiel testnet discussed, and more!

Welcome, all crypto fans and tech enthusiasts, to our eighth biweekly report on Humanode!
The long-awaited Humanode testnet — Sachiel — is here and is running smoothly! The participants are able to go through a biometric enrollment process and become human nodes, validate blocks, send transactions, and take part in the $100,000 anti-spoofing bounty program by Humanode partner, FaceTec. It is onboarding in batches. A few days ago, 5th batch of invitations were sent out.
As of now, there are already >6.3K testnet applicants, and >150 participants are interacting with face detection and faucet in testnet. Thank you for your interest, human nodes! Keep in mind that active testnet users will be given priority to become the first generation of human nodes once the mainnet launches in June 2022. So stay in the loop!
Currently, the Humanode teams are operating extremely hard on the major tasks. As part of the development update, they’ve shared what they’ve been working on over the past two weeks.
As for the network development, they implemented timestamp instead of block number at bio-authentication, corrected bio-authentication flow error and status reporting, added smoke-test for the node code at CI, and updated testnet documentation on GitHub and Gitbook.
The team has also been working on the Humanode Desktop App. They generated QR code based on ngrok auto detect, completed initial ngrok integration, added node settings for RPC URL mode and manifest generation noscript, changed installing flow and added workspace, upgraded Material-UI from version 4 to 5, and added better UI for picking binaries.
Considering crypto-biometric search and matching and liveness algorithms, the team refactored code for data preparation and trained weights, included the weights for face detection and tools packages, included the pretrained weights for passive liveness detection, made a demo website for passive liveness detection, modified alignment method for random cropping and added evaluation code for FASNetB based liveness detection, and created Key-Switch protocol for lattice-based encryption scheme.
This week, Victor, founder of Humanode, featured on The Encrypted Economy Podcast. The discussion spans not only human node validation and biometrics, but privacy and macroeconomics. Victor talked about his background, described Humanode basics such as liveness detection, the Vortex DAO, Fath monetary system, and more. Check it out!
Also, the Humanode team continues a series of interviews with core team members. This week, they interviewed Dmitry, consensus protocol and DLT engineer at Humanode. Dmitry discussed memorable moments of the Sachiel testnet, shared his vision for Humanode, talked about his background, aspirations, hobbies, and goals in life. Read the interview in the Humanode blog!
Other than that, the Humanode Fireside talk took place last week. The team discussed the Sachiel testnet and everything related. Join the team on Wednesday for the next conversation!
Humanode’s latest blog post discusses biometric-based launchpads. In a nutshell, Humanode enables investor identification which does not demand the sharing of any personal information to formalize a unique human (no KYC). It uses a search-and-matching algorithm to demonstrate the humanness and individuality of its participants. Validated participants are probably unique and human, with the use of cutting-edge liveness detection. Humanode will enable fair distribution of tokens to all token holders, based on the one human, one allocation principle. More details in the blog!
Human nodes, that’s all for today! Have a great weekend!

#Humanode https://twitter.com/Paradigm_fund/status/1449026492135006211?s=20

🔥 HUMANODE FIRESIDE: BIOMETRIC-BASED NFTS

Dear Human nodes,

This Wednesday we will hold a special Humanode Fireside talk dedicated to two topics.
In the first part, we will discuss biometric-based NFTs and everything related to them.
The second part will be devoted to the Humanode testnet — #Sachiel.

We look forward to seeing you in our telegram voice chat! Join us, ask questions and share your experience!

When?
Wednesday, October 20th 2021, 16:00 UTC

Where?
Humanode telegram group: https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanodes

P.S. For those who missed previous discussions, recordings are up on our Podcast and YouTube channel.

🔺 Humanode is the first crypto-biometric network where One human = One node = One vote

Humanode testnet "Sachiel"
👉 Apply here
👉 We received over 6 000 applications to join the testnet. We are inviting you in small batches via email, only 300 invitations were sent out. The process will be sped up with the release of the Humanode desktop app. Almost everyone will get an invite one day.
👉 Support on Discord and Telegram
👉 More info: testnet.humanode.io

⚠️ REMINDER: Please be aware of scams - Humanode admins will never private message (PM) you first, ask for funds or private keys/seed phrases. Please report if you encounter any impersonators.

Website | Blog | Discord | GitHub | LinkedIn | Podcast | Reddit | Telegram (Group) | Telegram (Channel) | Twitter | Whitepaper | YouTube

Airdrops are great for launching new tokens and bootstraping network effect. However, this distribution mechanism is not perfect. With the application of cutting-edge liveness detection, validated participants can be proven to be distinct and human. Based on the “one human, one allocation” premise, Humanode will ensure a fair distribution of tokens to everybody eligible for the retroactive airdrop campaign.

https://blog.humanode.io/biometric-based-airdrops/

🔥 Humanode Fireside is starting in an hour! ⏰

This time we will be discussing:
—Biometric-based NFTs
—The first-ever Humanode testnet — Sachiel

As always, we will be open for questions, suggestions, your thoughts, and would like to hear from all of you!

See you in our Telegram voice chat at 16:00 UTC 👉
http://t.me/humanodes

🔺[Humanode Special Interview Series] 🔺

Shannon, media lead at Humanode, discusses his story and background, interests and professional experience, shares his vision for Humanode, and talks about the features he likes the most about the project.

https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-special-interview-series-shannon/

In case you missed yesterday's Fireside chat about Biometric-based NFTs & Humanode testnet "Sachiel", here's the recording: 🎧 https://anchor.fm/humanode/episodes/21---Humanode-Fireside-Biometric-based-NFTs--Humanode-testnet-Sachiel-e193ahh

Some UX/UI and infrastructural optimizations are being done to allow batches of thousands. As soon that transition is handled we will continue to onboard human nodes. Thanks for patience.

Humanode Lead Developer shares his thoughts on what makes #Humanode special in the industry

In this latest Humanode dev update, we'd like to share some bullet points to shine some light on the exciting advancements that our development team has been working on!

Humanode Network
🔺Fixed runtime crate compilation error
🔺Received 6000+ testnet applications
🔺150+ participants already interacting with face detection and faucet in testnet
🔺Updated testnet documentation on Github and Gitbook
🔺Researched forkless runtime upgrade

Humanode Desktop App
🔺Implemented running nodes over SSH

Crypto-Biometric Search And Matching And Liveness Algorithms
🔺Added training noscript for deepfake detection
🔺Added inference noscript and Neural Network architecture for deepfake detection
🔺Updated weights for FASNetB based on liveness detection
🔺Refactored training code for FASNetA based on liveness detection
🔺Upgraded the liveness detection model weights

Biweekly update on @Humanode vol. 9
15th October — 29th October

Tests of forkless runtime upgrade and desktop app, An interview with Humanode media lead Shannon, Biometric-based airdrops overview, Biometric-based NFTs discussed, and more!

TL;DR
Hello, human nodes! Following our lovely tradition, we are here to provide you with a recap of projects’ news and updates of the past two weeks! This period was pretty fruitful for the teams and the community,
The long-awaited Humanode testnet — Sachiel — is here and is running smoothly! The participants are able to go through a biometric enrollment process and become human nodes, validate blocks, send transactions, and take part in the $100,000 anti-spoofing bounty program by Humanode partner, FaceTec. As of now, there are about 7K testnet applicants, and >150 participants are interacting with face detection and faucet in testnet. Thank you for your interest, human nodes! Keep in mind that active testnet users will be given priority to become the first generation of human nodes once the mainnet launches in June 2022. So stay in the loop!
Currently, the Humanode teams are operating extremely hard on the major tasks. As part of the development update, they’ve shared what they’ve been working on over the past two weeks.
As for the network development, they fixed runtime crate compilation error, updated testnet documentation on Github and Gitbook. and researched forkless runtime upgrade. The team has also been working on the Humanode desktop app. This week, they implemented running nodes over SSH.
Considering crypto-biometric search and matching and liveness algorithms, the team added training noscript for deepfake detection, added inference noscript and Neural Network architecture for deepfake detection, updated weights for FASNetB based on liveness detection, refactored training code for FASNetA based on liveness detection, and upgraded the liveness detection model weights.
Also, the Humanode team continues a series of interviews with core team members. This week, they interviewed Shannon, media lead at Humanode. Shannon, media lead at Humanode, discusses his story and background, interests and professional experience, shares his vision for Humanode, and talks about the features he likes the most about the project. Read the interview in the Humanode blog!
Other than that, the Humanode Fireside talk took place in their telegram voice chat. The team discussed biometric-based NFTs and the Sachiel testnet. Listen to the recording on the Humanode Podcast, and join the team on Wednesday for the next ‘Human — AI symbiosis with biometrics’ conversation!
Humanode’s latest blog post discusses biometric-based airdrops. Airdrops are great for launching new tokens and bootstrapping network effects. However, this distribution mechanism is not perfect. With the application of cutting-edge liveness detection, validated participants can be proven to be distinct and human. Based on the “one human, one allocation” premise, Humanode will ensure a fair distribution of tokens to everybody eligible for the retroactive airdrop campaign. More details in the blog!
That’s a wrap! See you in two weeks with new impressive milestones reached!

#Humanode https://twitter.com/Paradigm_fund/status/1454064614799466500?s=20

🔥 HUMANODE FIRESIDE: HUMAN - AI SYMBIOSIS WITH BIOMETRICS

Dear Friends and Human nodes,

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday in our telegram voice chat! We will be discussing human - AI symbiosis with biometrics and everything related.

As usual, there will be a live talk between the team members first, and then a conversation with the community.

When?
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021, 16:00 UTC

Where?
Humanode telegram group: https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanodes

P.S. For those who missed previous discussions, recordings are up on our Podcast and YouTube channel.