Latest Dev Update

Humanode Network
🔺Switched to Rust 2021 edition
🔺Switched robonode server to sc-tracing (instance of a tracing span) from the Substrate fork
🔺Fixed Substrate references
🔺Added more precise package references for Substrate fork crate utilities
🔺Integrated utilities to easier manage the crates coming from the Substrate fork
🔺Cleaned up bioauthentication flow RPC
🔺Re-added unit tests at bioauthentication consensus
🔺Added weights definition for bioauthentication pallet
🔺Applied forkless runtime upgrade to testnet
🔺Received 7000+ testnet applications
🔺150+ participants already interacting with face detection and faucet in testnet
🔺Updated testnet documentation on Github and Gitbook

Humanode Desktop App
🔺Implemented WSL system and distro installation flow
🔺Added WSL functions, helper texts and Linux SVGs
🔺Added MaterialUI icons
🔺Added accordion for advanced SSH options
🔺Enabled multiple SSH authentication modes + fallbacks
🔺Used a tunnel provider
🔺Launched multiple nodes with the app internally

Crypto-Biometric Search And Matching And Liveness Algorithms
🔺Refactored code about facial deepfake detection, feature extraction, eye blink detection and expression recognition
🔺Included checks of head pose and face region for passive liveness detection
🔺Added a class to FASNetB model (liveness detection) and retrained it
🔺Added MobileNetV3 for deepfake detection
🔺Added test noscript and trained weights (Xception, ResNet-18)
🔺Added data preparation noscript and fixed a bug in the training code

Biweekly update on @Humanode vol. 10

29th October — 12th November

Forkless Runtime upgrade on the testnet, An interview with Humanode cryptography researcher Hardik, Biometric-based social networks overview, human + AI symbiosis with biometrics discussed, and more!

TL;DR
Greetings human nodes! As we head into November, let’s take a look at where the Humanode project is at with development updates, events, interviews, and new sci-fi fireside discussions.
As you know, 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, and send transactions. 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 tuned!
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 switched to Rust 2021 edition, as well as switched robonode server to sc-tracing from the Substrate fork, added more precise package references for Substrate fork crate utilities, integrated utilities to easier manage the crates coming from the Substrate fork, cleaned up bioauthentication flow RPC, re-added unit tests at bioauthentication consensus, added weights definition for bioauthentication pallet, and applied forkless runtime upgrade to testnet.
The Humanode team continues their work on the desktop application. These weeks, they implemented WSL system and distro installation flow, added WSL functions, helper texts and Linux SVGs, MaterialUI icons, and accordion for advanced SSH options. Also, they enabled multiple SSH authentication modes + fallbacks, used a tunnel provider, and launched multiple nodes with the app internally.
Considering crypto-biometric search and matching and liveness algorithms, the team refactored code about facial deepfake detection, feature extraction, eye blink detection and expression recognition, and included checks of head pose and face region for passive liveness detection. They also added a class to FASNetB model (liveness detection) and retrained it, added MobileNetV3 for deepfake detection, added test noscript and trained weights (Xception, ResNet-18), and added data preparation noscript and fixed a bug in the training code. Minor fixes and a fancier UI — all that’s left. Humanode will be ready to reach 1000 nodes and become the biggest Substrate blockchain.
Also, the Humanode team continues a series of interviews with core team members. This week, they interviewed Hardick, cryptography researcher at Humanode. Hardik discusses his story and background, dreams and aspirations, shares his vision for Humanode bio-authentication system, 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 human — AI symbiosis with biometrics. 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 social networks. Since Web3 social networks are built on an open codebase, developers can construct social graphs that create reputations. When integrated with a Proof-of-Person protocol like Humanode, this can prevent Sybil attacks on the network. More details in the blog!
Good news is, this week the Humanode team welcomed two new members — a front-end developer and a UI designer. Now the truly distributed team consists of members from 12 countries.
Humanode’s push toward decentralization continues. See you in two weeks!

#Humanode https://twitter.com/Paradigm_fund/status/1459187424953835522?s=20

🔥 HUMANODE FIRESIDE: ROAD TO MAINNET AND WHAT SHALL WE BUILD

Dear Friends and Human nodes,

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday in our telegram voice chat! We will be discussing our road to mainnet 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 17th, 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 Co-founder on current systems

When a network lacks any third-party intermediaries to verify identities, anyone with enough resources can attack and take control of the network. This is where Humanode can provide network integrity with Biometric-based Validators.

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

🔥 Humanode Fireside is starting in an hour! ⏰

This time we will be discussing Humanode road to mainnet.

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

Wen mainnet? In case you missed yesterday's Fireside chat about 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘁, here's the recording: https://anchor.fm/humanode/episodes/23---Humanode-Fireside-Humanode-road-to-mainnet-e1aetj5

🔺[Humanode Special Interview Series] 🔺

Vlad, designer at Humanode, discusses his background story, dreams and aspirations, and what gets him excited about design in the crypto-biometrics space.

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

Announcing Humanode Testnet V2 — Shamshel

Today we’re pleased to announce that Testnet V2 “Shamshel” and Humanode Desktop App will be released on 8th of December 2021. Details.

The Testnet V2 will have features such as:
• Forkless runtime upgrade
• Cutting-edge proof-of-human-existence protocol
• Aura consensus
• Able to support thousands of human nodes at any given time
• User friendly UI to launch a human node locally or in the cloud

Participants will be able to become human nodes through a biometric enrollment process, validate blocks, send transactions, and participate in FaceTec's $100,000 anti-spoofing bounty programme.

All the applications for the V1 will be transfered to V2. Thank you once again for your patience.

Shamshel will support Linux, MacOS, and Windows, in combination with iOS and Android, and the hardware requirements to join the testnet will not be high.

Register here.

Much has happened since the launch of Humanode Testnet V1 “Sachiel”. Overall it was a success with:

• 7000+ testnet applications;
• 150+ participants interacted with liveness detection and faucet;
• Up to 100+ nodes connected at the same time for two months.

At first we thought that we were going to just update the existing testnet but so many changes have been made that we decided to push for V2.

As we are transitioning to the new testnet we are going to wipe the chain clean. For those who participated in “Sachiel” - don’t be worried your effort will be snapshotted, remembered and, hopefully, appropriately rewarded. For those who lost their mnemonics - you will be able to authorize anew.

All the applications for the V1 will be transfered to V2.

Thank you once again for your patience.

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
🔺Added a proper log entry for the "already bio-authorized" errors
🔺Shared linter settings
🔺Improved error mapping from the logic to the HTTP transport layer at robonode
🔺Received 7000+ testnet applications
🔺120+ participants already interacting with face detection and faucet in testnet
🔺Updated testnet documentation on Github and Gitbook

Humanode Desktop App
🔺Fixed versioning
🔺Migrated to React and MaterialUI
🔺Fixed race condition for QR code in node tab
🔺Shared sentry code across processes
🔺Disabled application menu
🔺Used Electron dark mode
🔺Set no-sync eslint rule to warn mode to be switched to error later
🔺Added a workaround for Apple Silicon engine issue
🔺Added passphrase input for encrypted SSH keys
🔺Added idle timeout termination on local engine
🔺Updated manifest noscripts to new format

Crypto-Biometric Search And Matching And Liveness Algorithms
🔺Added model architecture and training code for FASNetC based on liveness detection
🔺Updated the evaluation code to analyze performance and added visualization
🔺Fixed bug in GPU inference code
🔺Scaled up the FASNetA model and add updated weight
🔺Added updated weight and smooth cross entropy loss
🔺Updated weight for FASNetB based on liveness detection
🔺Refactored code and added densenet121 model for facial expression recognition

Biweekly update on @Humanode vol.11

12th November - 26th November

Testnet V2 — Shamshel and Humanode Desktop App on December 8th, Biometric-based validators overview, An interview with Humanode designer Vlad, Road to mainnet discussed, and more!

Hello to all 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!
First and foremost, a few days ago, the Humanode team announced that Testnet V2 ‘Shamshel’ and Humanode Desktop App will be released on 8th of December 2021! ‘Shamshel’ will have features such as: forkless runtime upgrade, cutting-edge proof-of-human-existence protocol, Aura consensus, support of thousands of human nodes at any given time, and user-friendly UI to launch a human node locally or in the cloud. Participants will be able to become human nodes through a biometric enrollment process, validate blocks, send transactions, and participate in FaceTec's $100,000 anti-spoofing bounty programme. Shamshel will support Linux, MacOS, and Windows, in combination with iOS and Android, and the hardware requirements to join the testnet will not be high. All the applications for the V1 will be transferred to V2. So stay tuned!
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 added a proper log entry for the "already bio-authorized" errors, shared linter settings, and improved error mapping from the logic to the HTTP transport layer at robonode.
The team continues their work on the desktop application. These weeks, they fixed versioning and race condition for QR code in node tab, migrated to React and MaterialUI, shared sentry code across processes, disabled application menu, used Electron dark mode, set no-sync eslint rule to warn mode to be switched to error later, added a workaround for Apple Silicon engine issue alongside passphrase input for encrypted SSH keys and idle timeout termination on local engine, and updated manifest noscripts to new format.
Considering crypto-biometric search and matching and liveness algorithms, the bioauth team added model architecture and training code for FASNetC based on liveness detection, updated the evaluation code to analyze performance and added visualization, fixed bug in GPU inference code, scaled up the FASNetA model and add updated weight, added updated weight and smooth cross entropy loss, updated weight for FASNetB based on liveness detection, and refactored code and added densenet121 model for facial expression recognition.
The Humanode media team continues a series of interviews with Humanode core team members. This week, they interviewed Vlad, designer at Humanode. He discussed his background story, dreams and aspirations, and what gets him excited about design in the crypto-biometrics space. Read the interview in the Humanode blog!
Other than that, the Humanode Fireside talk took place in their telegram voice chat. The team discussed Humanode’s road to mainnet. Listen to the recording on the Humanode Podcast, and join the team on Wednesday for the next conversation!
Humanode's latest blog post discusses biometric-based validators. With Humanode, blockchains can include liveness detection checks in the consensus mechanism to be a validator of the network. Human-only networks of validators, as opposed to the default of extraction and individualism, make room for cooperative and collective modes of economic functioning. More details in the blog!
That’s all for today! Can’t wait to see you all joining Shamshel on December 8th, 2021! Stay in the loop!

#Humanode https://twitter.com/Paradigm_fund/status/1464232600973811718?s=20

🔥 HUMANODE FIRESIDE: BIOMETRIC DATA MARKETS

Dear Friends and Human nodes,

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday in our telegram voice chat! We will be discussing biometric data markets 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, December 1st, 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 Fireside is starting in an hour! ⏰

This time we will be discussing biometric data markets.

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

In case you missed yesterday's Fireside chat about 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀, here's the recording: 🎧

🔺[Humanode Special Interview Series]🔺

Edward, content specialist at Humanode, discusses his background story, dreams and aspirations, and what gets him excited about crypto-biometrics.

https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-special-interview-series-edward-content-strategist-at-humanode/

Humanode 🤝 DAOs

DAOs can use Humanode to create a first-of-its-kind universal sybil defense that can drastically alter standard practices when interacting with one another in a permissionless environment.

https://blog.humanode.io/pseudonymous-biometric-identity-for-daos/

Humanode TestNet V2 'Shamshel' is Live

Humanode is releasing “Shamshel (TestNet V2)”, the closed Beta version of the first major upgrade to the Humanode TestNet software today.

The 1st major upgrade will greatly improve the UI/UX and allow users to install the TestNet application without having to touch the terminal window.

As in “Sachiel (Testnet V1)”, Shamshel participants will be able to become human nodes through a biometric enrollment process, validate blocks, send transactions, and participate in FaceTec's $100,000 anti-spoofing bounty program.

Current TestNet V1 users will be transferred to Shamshel, and a number of current applicants will also be invited to join Shamshel for the closed testing session.

Humanode is scheduling the full public release of Shamshel, with further updated UI and UX on December 22nd, fully opening the doors to all who want to join the Humanode TestNet, and immortalize their existence as one of the first batches of human nodes in History.

Register here.