Time for this week's validator poll.

If you’ve linked your validator address to your bio-authenticated Discord, just head to ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠validator-polls and vote. If not, you can still do it.

Remember, voting is part of the deal under Proof-of-Polls to be eligible for full validator rewards.

As always, the poll will be open for 3 days. Jump in and cast your vote.

For more information: https://blog.humanode.io/update-on-the-validator-fee-structure/

Guide: https://link.humanode.io/guide/validator-address-submission

Non-crypto shows ask the sharper questions.

Victor breaks down his take on programmable democracy.

Also talks about social coordination, economics, and building parallel systems that don’t default to plutocracy.

Watch Full episode on Varnvlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2wg3GW4x5I

https://x.com/tech_mingler/status/1965716664030503047

Humanode Biomapper C2 is now integrated on Rubyscore.

When you biomap, bridge to Soneium, and verify on Rubyscore, your EVM address is marked as unique and human-verified, and you earn reputation points that increase your Rubyscore in the Soneium ecosystem.

For those who don’t know: Rubyscore is an on-chain identity & reputation platform. Users mint a Rubyscore ID and build reputation with points and badges that reflect wallet activity. Projects use its Proof-of-Human (PoH) ID and analytics to find real users and design reward/privilege systems.

How it works: Biomap → Bridge to Soneium → Verify on Rubyscore.

No PII, no KYC required, just prove you are a real and unique human with a private and secure face scan.

Cherry on top: As part of the ongoing Biomapper C2 release campaign, biomapping is free for the first 10,000 wallets who biomap and bridge to Soneium. Humanode refunds your biomap fee, Humanode network fee, and bridge/verify gas.

So this is your chance to get biomapped for free and use it to verify & earn reputation score on Rubyscore.

One EVM address per person.

Get Biomapped for free to increase your reputation score.

Start here:
Biomap & bridge | How to Biomap | Verify on Rubyscore | Campaign rules & FAQs

Get your EVM wallet address uniqueness verified on XRPL EVM with Humanode Biomapper C2 (no PII, no KYC required).


First 2000 biomaps and bridge on XRPL EVM are free (Humanode refunds fees: biomap, network, bridge).

Biomap → Bridge & Verify on XRPL EVM.

You’ll have a uniqueness-verified wallet address you can use on any XRPL EVM dApp that requires a uniqueness check.

For dApps on XRPL EVM, the free biomap campaign means more users will onboard quickly, giving builders an immediate pool of verified, Sybil-resistant wallets to use for airdrops, governance, or any use case that requires uniqueness verification.

1 wallet address per person.

The Campaign is live, and the refund will be airdropped on September 30th.

Biomap & bridge | How to Biomap | Verify on Rubyscore | Campaign rules & FAQs

The internet was built on a simple promise: one person equals one account. One voice, one vote, one reward.

But what happens when that promise breaks? When one person shows up wearing a hundred masks and ruins the experience? That’s a Sybil attack.

The fix? Sybil resistance.

We put together a guide that walks through what Sybil attacks are, how they wreck apps and businesses, and why Sybil resistance matters for the future of the internet.

Read the full piece: https://blog.humanode.io/sybil-attacks-and-the-fight-for-sybil-resistance-explained/

What does it mean to be “alive” in digital systems?
A blink may prove existence, but can it capture the plural self?

Sasha Shilina explores liveness, identity, and multiplicity in Distributed Selves: Identity in a World of Liveness and Multiplicity.

Read here: https://blog.humanode.io/distributed-selves-identity-in-a-world-of-liveness-and-multiplicity/

Humanode Biweekly vol. 106 is here!

TL;DR
⛓️ Biomapper C2 lands on Wanchain

⭐️ Rubyscore becomes the first dApp on Soneium to integrate Biomapper

🗓 HumanodeCon IV in Bucharest was a blast

🗣 Victor Vernissage breaks down programmable democracy on Varn Vlog

📖 Fresh publications explore Sybil resistance and the question of digital selves

https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-biweekly-vol-106/

Search for an address. See if it’s human-verified. That’s now possible in Blockscout.

Yes, Blockscout has integrated Humanode Biomapper C2 into its explorers.

Now, whenever you look up an EVM address, you’ll see whether it’s Humanode verified in the widgets section.

Biomap → Bridge to a supported chain → your wallet shows a green verified human status in Blockscout.

For more details: https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-biomapper-is-now-integrated-into-blockscout-explorers/

To mark the release of Biomapper C2, Humanode is running a campaign:

Get biomapped and bridged on supported chains for free under quota.

Fees refunded (biomap, network, bridge).

One wallet per person. Limited spots per chain.

Rules & quotas: https://blog.humanode.io/rules-and-faqs-for-biomapper-c2-campaign/

Live on these explorers:
Base: https://base.blockscout.com/
Scroll: https://scroll.blockscout.com/
Arbitrum: http://arbitrum.blockscout.com/
Filecoin: https://filecoin.blockscout.com/
Unichain: https://unichain.blockscout.com/
Hyperliquid: https://www.hyperscan.com/
Etherlink: https://explorer.etherlink.com/

Episteme turns hypotheses into tokenized prediction markets where truth is rewarded. Built on Humanode so fairness is the foundation.

@Episteme_ac testnet is live → https://epistemesci.substack.com/p/announcing-the-eidolon-testnet

Apply for whitelist → https://www.episteme.ac/whitelist

🟡 Episteme: Eidōlon Testnet is live on Humanode

Open questions now trade like assets.
@Episteme_ac transforms scientific hypotheses into live markets: conviction becomes a position, resolution becomes a verdict.

How it works
• Hypothesis → market
• Long or short your belief
• AI oracles scan global research
• Odds shift in real time
• Resolution → rewards for forecasters + scientists

It’s DeScAI on Humanode
The chain carries the mechanism.
The crowd carries the weight.

👉 Apply for whitelist: https://www.episteme.ac/whitelist

Coming next
First featured hypothesis drops next week.

It’s Humanode Fireside time again

This Friday, September 26th, we’ll be around for a casual catch-up with the Humanode founders, Dato, and Victor, just to hang out. No set themes. It could be a discussion around recent Humanode updates, or maybe we have guests coming over.


🗓️ Friday, September 26th
🕑 2 PM UTC
📍Humanode Radio

Set your reminder.

A business runs on trust in numbers.
Every click, every review, every sign-up is a promise: this is real.

But bots and duplicate accounts break that promise. They drain ad budgets, hijack rewards, and poison metrics. What looks like growth on paper is often just shadows.

At Humanode, we’ve built BotBasher, Biomapper, and OAuth2 to fight that shadow economy. And with Humanode 1.0, we’ll be bringing it all together with SRGate: a universal verification path to make sure behind every account there’s a unique human, not a noscript.

Because when businesses can measure real customers, trust in the digital economy can finally grow again.

Read the full article: https://blog.humanode.io/why-srgate-matters-for-anyone-building-online/

At HumanodeCon IV in Romania, the panel debated: “How far are we from a Planetary DAO?” 🌍

The contra team argued:
👉 If there’s only one planetary DAO, a single failure could wipe everyone out.
👉 With many DAOs, each thriving in its own ecosystem, it would take multiple failures before humanity as a whole is affected.

So… what do you think?
Do you believe a planetary DAO is possible? 🤔