Humanode 101 (Part 1)

Q & A's that will hopefully help all of our readers who are new to Humanode, or perhaps even crypto and/or decentralized projects.

https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-101/

🔥 Humanode Fireside is starting in an hour! ⏰

This time we will be discussing biometrics and privacy.

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 👉
https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanodes

🔺Vote for Humanode’s talks at Polkadot Decoded🔺

The largest Polkadot conference Polkadot Decoded is coming! In 2022, it will be divided into 4 sub-events, which will be held in Shanghai, Berlin, New York, and Mexico offline.

The Polkadot team has announced the candidate talks, and about 60+ Polkadot ecosystem projects signed up on topics such as Polkadot vision, slot auction, workshop, and lightning & technology talks. According to the voting mechanism, the top 15 talks with the most votes in each category will enter the final talk list.

At this conference, Humanode has submitted two talks:

🎤 Re-imagining blockchain governance and validation with private biometrics by Dato Kavazi, a co-founder at Humanode

Starting with an overview of centralization issues in Proof-of-Stake protocols we'll delve into Humanode solution to decentralization of infrastructure and governance which combines one of the most accurate biometric neural networks and Substrate stack. We'll cover how blockchain innovators can combine biometric verification and Nominated Proof-of-Stake to increase their network decentralization.

🎤 Biometric-authorization based consensus layer by Dmitry Lavrenov, a consensus protocol and DLT engineer at Humanode

Biometric-authorization or Bioauth based consensus layer is an addition to deterministic consensus protocols (i.e. BABE & Grandpa) that is responsible for validating whether block authors of proposed blocks have successfully passed biometric authentication or not. As a result, we have an extra consensus layer that allows only bio-authenticated validators to take part in blocks production and validation.

Human nodes, take a moment to support our team's participation in the most important Dotsama event this year!

Cast your vote here (voting is open until April 14th):
https://decoded.polkadot.network/vote/?search=humanode

In case you missed yesterday's Fireside chat about 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗰𝘆, here's the recording: https://anchor.fm/humanode/episodes/33---Humanode-Fireside-Biometrics-and-Privacy-e1grl5o

Humanode Hackathon Announcement

Hey Hackers and Builders,

We are excited to host the first Humanode Hackathon, and invite all hackers and builders to participate!

The prizes will be awarded to the individuals/teams that come up with and demo the most interesting application and tools for human nodes or develop a sybil-resistant app using Humanode API while respecting the challenge denoscription, goals, and criteria.

Date: 16-29 of May, 2022
Venue: Devpost (more details to follow)

Each week of the hackathon will be filled with panels, workshops, demos and talks. The program introduces speakers with different perspectives, promotes educational and awareness-raising activities, and that deepens the understanding of the Sybil resistance. Our awesome mentors will help you deep-dive into development on EVM-compatible Humanode chain, use of biometric API as well as working with the nodes. More details concerning the events and scheduling will follow shortly.

Please register below in order to be eligible for the submissions, bounties and prizes that will be announced shortly!

👉🏻 Early pre-registration form

Don’t forget to join our Discord to team up with other participants and keep up to date with events during this hackathon.Let's get inspired, share ideas, and celebrate the “1 human = 1 node” ethos together!

Best of luck!

Team Humanode

Hello world!

The Humanode team would like to invite all human nodes, and human nodes to be, to our first-ever Humanode Conference!

Our original goal was to have everyone attend an offline, face to face conference, however due to the geopolitical crisis in the world along with the relentless COVID pandemic, we will be holding the conference online, on Gather.

We would like to invite everyone to join us for a few days of keynotes, lectures, seminars, games, conversations, and a whole lot of fun, focusing on the upcoming launch of Humanode mainnet, our vision, partnerships, technology and growing as a community!

The conference will be held on Gather (link to be shared at a later date) from May 30th to June 1st 2022, and we will be sharing details as they become available.

We are looking forward to your participation!

Team Humanode

https://blog.humanode.io/announcing-humanode-conference-2022/

📣📣 Hi human nodes! 📣📣

We invite you all to join us in our AMA that will take place on Wednesday, April 13th, 8:00 PM (PST).

This time it will be hosted on ORE Network's Twitter Space

🗓 SET REMINDER LINK ⬇️ ⬇️

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1BRKjnyrywNKw?s=20

📣📣 Human nodes! 📣📣

Join us in our AMA that will start in 30 minutes, at 8:00 PM (PST).

It will be hosted on ORE Network's Twitter Space

⬇️ ⬇️⬇️
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1BRKjnyrywNKw?s=20

[DEV UPDATE]

Humanode Network
🔺 ~3000 nodes running on all four testnets
🔺 Added pallet session implementation
🔺 Updated chain spec using session keys
🔺 Added bio-authentication ID API runtime logic to bio-authentication flow
🔺 Edited bio-authentication ID API documentation
🔺 Fixed bio-authentication consensus API tests
🔺 Added Bio-authentication Session Keys wrapper that will implement ownership validation
🔺 Introduced Bio-authentication Consensus ID
🔺 Fixed tests at validator key
🔺 Used bio-authentication instead of Account ID at the corresponding places
🔺 Used bio-authentication consensus ID instead of BABE ID at the corresponding places
🔺 Updated bio-authentication ID documentation
🔺 Updated documentation for bio-authentication consensus ID
🔺 Enabled wasmtime by default to runtime benchmarks

Humanode Web App
🔺 Added tests for reattempts
🔺 Added tests and fixed the RPC error interface
🔺 Fixed an issue with error typeguard

Humanode Desktop App
🔺 Implemented Hydra integration
🔺 Added test for Hydra parsing error
🔺 Added workarounds for Hydra error handling
🔺 Added client name for get consent request
🔺 Refactored the layers
🔺 Fixed invalid header name
🔺 Removed Mutex and cleaned up code
🔺 Customized server IP address
🔺 Added SSH private key into CI
🔺 Removed header encode implementation
🔺 Improved documentation of logic error
🔺 Fixed docs and naming convention
🔺 Changed mapping of consent request
🔺 Fixed logic inconsistency in GET login
🔺 Changed endpoints logic
🔺 Added FaceTec SDK params and update API
🔺 Added Docker
🔺 Removed unnecessary error logging
🔺 Removed wildcard fallbacks in error handling
🔺 Allowed Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) setup via ENV
🔺 Regrouped and rename login errors
🔺 Added intolerance to client absence
🔺 Reduced number of attempts for 3D enrollment

Crypto-Biometric Search And Matching And Liveness Algorithms
🔺 Updated facial recognition components for demo website
🔺 Refactored code for liveness detection and landmark extraction
🔺 Built REST APIs for user signup and signin
🔺 Updated code to handle base64 image on the backend and CORS error
🔺 Added REST APIs (feature extraction, face recognition, active liveness detection)

OAuth
🔺 Changed to camelCase for fields in ChallengeGuard
🔺 Added missing explainer
🔺 Changed livenessData type to unknown

Biweekly update on @Humanode vol.21

4th April — 16th April

Shamshel Web and Desktop App updates, Humanode Hackathon and Conference announced, Humanode 101 series is out, ORE Network’s AMA with Humanode, Biometrics and privacy discussed, and more!

TL;DR
Hello, friends and human nodes! These two weeks were truly meteoric for Humanode on so many fronts, and we can’t wait to share some of the most exciting news with you!
First and foremost, the Humanode team announced the dates of the first-ever Humanode Conference! Join them on Gather from May 30th to June 1st, 2022 for a few days of keynotes, lectures, seminars, games, conversations, and a whole lot of fun, focusing on the upcoming launch of Humanode mainnet, the project’s vision, partnerships, technology, and growing as a community!
Moreover, the team will host the first Humanode Hackathon on May 16th — 29th, 2022, and they invite all hackers and builders to participate! The prizes will be awarded to the individuals and teams that come up with and demo the most interesting application and tools for human nodes or develop a Sybil-resistant app using Humanode API while respecting the challenge denoscription, goals, and criteria. Each week of the hackathon will be filled with panels, workshops, demos, and talks. Find an early pre-registration form’s link in our report below and register in order to be eligible for the submissions, bounties and prizes that will be announced shortly!
Humanode development continues all the way! During these two weeks, Humanode teams were working assiduously as always, making significant progress with current tasks. The progress was minutely shared in their regular development update. Also, the team released the Humanode testnet V2 ‘Shamshel’ major Web and Desktop App updates. First of all, they include a new UI in the Mobile application! After scanning the QR code you can now choose directly from the application what you want to do, enroll or authenticate. There are also comments on the buttons that describe what enrollment and authentication mean. Now the checkbox in the Desktop application does not need to be switched. Additionally, the team fixed authentication issues on Intel Macs.
Furthermore, on April 13th, the Humanode team joined an AMA hosted on ORE Network’s Twitter Space. They discussed the Humanode journey, core technology, the partnership between the projects, and its advantages. A must-listen talk!
Other than that, as usual, the Humanode Fireside talk took place in the Humanode Telegram voice chat. The team discussed biometrics and privacy. Listen to the recording on the Humanode Podcast, and join the team on Wednesday for the next conversation!
Human nodes, that’s all for today! Stay in the loop!

#Humanode https://twitter.com/Paradigm_fund/status/1515285295255769088?s=20&t=RAZguu4oa58Y2VC7wJB1dg

🔥 HUMANODE FIRESIDE: THE POWER OF AUTHORITY. CAN HUMANODE LEAD TO PROPER DECENTRALIZATION?

Dear human nodes,

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday in our Telegram voice chat! We will be discussing the power of authority. Join the Humanode team to know how the project leads to proper decentralization!

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

When?
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 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, Spotify, and YouTube channel.

Hey everyone

We recently had a meme contest https://discord.com/channels/819836895739248700/956525843759390790/956530888211054622

The Humanode team has selected 14 top ones out of 100+ submissions

We invite all human nodes to participate in voting for the best of the best memes!

🗳 👉 https://forms.gle/3nw8CD8gwBKomQzt7

Humanode 101 series is a casual Q & A to assist those who are new to Humanode, Crypto, Blockchain projects, and/or those who at the stage that they have been around the Humanode community for a while, but are too afraid to ask questions.

https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-101-part-ii/

🔥 Fireside Chat with the Humanode team is starting in an hour!

This time we will be discussing the power of authority. Join the Humanode team to know how the project leads to proper decentralization.

🎙 As usual, we will open up the session to Q&A from the community.

See you in our Telegram voice chat at 16:00 UTC
https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanodes

In case you missed yesterday's Fireside chat about 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆. 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?, here's the recording: 🎧https://anchor.fm/humanode/episodes/34---Humanode-Fireside-Power-of-authority--Can-Humanode-lead-to-proper-decentralization-e1hf5nf

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Have an awesome day. Stay human!

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“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” -Albert Einstein

Show us your wit by unlocking your creativity and join HUMANODE WORD PLAY CONTEST!

We are looking forward to reading any types of creative writing pieces related to Humanode and the crypto world. This may include:

humors/puns,
poems/acrostics,
short stories,
tech theses,
economic theses,
adoption theses,
etc.

Be free and open to express yourself. We await your entries.
Tweet your entries on Twitter as a single tweet or tweet storm and tag @humanode_io then share the link to word-play channel on Discord starting April 25th until May 9th 2022. 12 PM UTC.

10 winners will earn rewards from a USDT prize pool.

Rules:
-Only original pieces will be considered. We will be considering short threads/tweet-storms that can be shared on Twitter.
-Users may submit more than one piece (Including: humors/puns, poems/acrostics, short stories, tech theses, economic and adoption theses or any type of writing pieces).
-Tweet your entry with @humanode_io
-Post link to a tweet to Discord word-play channel
-Submissions are open until May 9th 2022 (12PM UTC)
-Judging criteria based on creativity and relevance to Humanode taking into account the number of likes/retweets/comments.
-Humanode has the right to delete inappropriate content without any explanation.

Have fun! 🤩🥳