Biweekly update on @Humanode vol.27

29th June — 13th July

Ramiel testnet hits 288+ unique validators, Dev updates are out, The Humanode Hackathon ‘Hack The Sybil’ is ongoing, Humanode weekend community contest winners soon, and more!

TL;DR
Hello to the amazing Humanode community! As usual, we are here to share a recap of the latest news and events from the network. These weeks were quite fruitful for teams, so let’s point out some of the key updates.
Keep in mind, that Humanode Testnet v3 — “Ramiel” is live and open for public testing. Ramiel is the next major step towards the launch of the Humanode Mainnet this summer. The team is focusing on brushing up the system, moving from permissioned Proof of Authority where nodes are supposed to trust each other, to a trustless permissionless system, and bringing EVM compatibility to the Humanode testnet. Be the first of human nodes to test it out. Apply now!
At the time of writing, “Ramiel” has 288 unique validators. Recently, a huge batch of 2,000 invites for Ramiel Testnet participants number 6 has been sent. Check your emails!
During these weeks, Humanode teams were working tirelessly to make significant progress with current tasks. The progress was minutely shared in their regular development update.
As for the network development, the team fixed supply run-time tests, implemented Pot Accounts (added a temporary fee system), and introduced chain properties to properly manage ss58 prefix.
Considering crypto-biometric search and matching and liveness algorithms, they set the default formatter for Python, removed Pylint invalid-names exemption, implemented public verification for the public key generated by the individual users, separated the verification system from the collective authority protocol, fixed index in the execution time, improved the accuracy of passive liveness detection and bug in tensorboard logging, and updated test datasets for passive liveness detection
The great news is that the signup for the Humanode Hackathon is still live! “Hack The Sybil!” will include a series of educational workshops that teach participants to build decentralized applications on the Humanode network. After the hackathon, applicants will be able to apply for a grant through the Humanode Grant Program which will launch in Q3 2022 after the mainnet launch. Don’t forget to join Humanode Discord to team up with other participants and keep up to date with events during the hackathon!
That’s a wrap! Stay in the loop!

#Humanode https://medium.com/paradigm-research/humanode-ramiel-testnet-hits-288-unique-validators-dev-updates-are-out-the-humanode-hackathon-26b53b4aade8

📣Hey, human nodes!

We recently had Humanode Weekend Contest on Discord:
https://discord.com/channels/819836895739248700/819836895739248703/994988997539545229

🥳Congratulations to all the winners!
@hbbkrgz
@rarik12344
@Shoni
@D831
@NakoTurk
@alex94
@StellaR

Winners get 100 USDT each.
DM me on Discord, please.

We thank you for your participation. We are glad that Humanode community members help each other out.
👀Hint: something big is coming your way. You don't want to miss anything, folks!

Stay tuned, stay human.

Dear Human nodes!

We are excited to declare that Testnet 3 "Ramiel" is now public.

Use the following link to partake: https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-testnet-3-ramiel/

Thank you for your continuous participation. The amount of various fixes and optimizations that the Humanode team was able to make with the support of our community is remarkable.

As of now we are making the final preparations to head to the public sale and the subsequent mainnet release in the upcoming months.

Hope you guys are ready to lead the web 3 to proper distribution of power.

Stay tuned, many updates to follow.

Sincerely,

Humanode Core

‼️IMPORTANT‼️


📣Hey, human nodes!👋🏽

There are two things that we have been noticing since testnet 3 has launched👀

1️⃣ There are MANY authenticated non-validator participants (this means you are authenticated but not a validator).

⚠️Please make sure you "Rotate and Set Session Keys" before authenticating, otherwise your node will not be validating any blocks.

2️⃣ There have been a huge number of participants reporting web app is stuck at "Connecting to the peer..." 💬

✅If you are one of them, kindly follow the instruction attached. When done correctly, it should resolve the issue.

We thank you for your endless support for us. More is coming.


Regards,

Humanode Core

Human nodes and friends!

We have come a long way since we have started this journey together. A bit more than a year ago there was an idea and a couple of hundred pioneers but as of today we are technologically ready to deploy version one mainnet in the upcoming months with more than 10k people that went through the testnets. For that we would like to thank you all. We know that folk in our community are quite enthusiastic about Humanode and idea-driven and have proven it many times over. Today we wanted to share some long-awaited news about where we are headed.

Whitelisting and address mapping

As you have already guessed from the banner to this post we are announcing the whitelist for our public sale on Tokensoft in the upcoming months. The whitelist spots are limited that is why we decided to have three different waves so that more dedicated ecosystem members could get into an earlier wave. Logically those who partook in the testnets will be allocated to the first wave.

To verify that one has indeed participated in the testnet we have created a special address mapper that will help to connect your substrate address used for testnets with your eth address that will be used for the public sale. Once your address is mapped you will be considered whitelisted for the sale, but only if you have participated in the testnets. Save the ETH address to use it on the day of the actual sale and claim your spot in the first wave.

To know more about various waves and eligibility read this guide.

Wave 1 for validators : https://link.humanode.io/public-sale-whitelist/testnet-validators
*Only if you ran a node on either of the testnets*

Wave 1 for non-validators : https://link.humanode.io/public-sale-whitelist/wave-1

Wave 2 for the community : https://link.humanode.io/public-sale-whitelist/wave-2

Wave 3 for the public : https://link.humanode.io/public-sale-whitelist/wave-3

Additional Info:
Public sale details
Whitelist details
Whitepaper

The Fire Element

As mentioned before we want to reward Testnet 1 “Sachiel” human nodes with a special NFT that will resemble their achievement in becoming the first wave of human nodes to run as validators.

To verify participation in the Testnet 1 we have created a mapper of addresses that will help to connect your substrate address used for Testnet 1 “Sachiel” with your eth address.

To claim NFT : https://link.humanode.io/fire-element-nft-claim

Every week the Fire Element will be sent out to those who mapped their addresses until everyone receives them.

Sachiel, Shamshel, Ramiel...

At Testnet 1 “Sachiel” we declared that validation wouldn’t be incentivized because we wanted only those who truly believe in the idea to risk engagement with our untested tech. Thus we expected a bit more than a hundred testers. To our surprise thousands joined in, went through biometric verifications, struggled with bugs in the bioauth, ran servers remotely and locally for months and did all of this with the Humanode team constantly repeating again and again that these testnets are non-incentivized.

We once again want to thank you for participating in the testnets. Without you Humanode wouldn’t be what it is today. It’s an honor to have such a dedicated community.

That is why we have decided to reward our testers with some HMND tokens for their efforts! They will be distributed randomly throughout the first month after TGE. But only to those who ran nodes on our testnets before this announcement was posted. If you are reading this without having participated in the testnets I am afraid you won’t be eligible for the reward even if you deploy a node right now.

To become eligible for the testnet rewards you must go through the Wave 1 whitelisting process and map your addresses through the mapper that was described above but here is an additional link just to be sure.

Let’s usher together in the new age of biometric sybil-resistance and bring proper distribution to crypto once and for all!

Sincerely,

Humanode Core

Humanode Bi-Weekly Dev Updates (27-07-2022)

Hello, Human nodes!
With the excitement for going to Public Sale and Mainet soon in the coming months, here are some dev updates to the Humanode:


1. Humanode Network
- Integrated the pots into the humanode runtime
- Moved crypto helper functions from chainspec to humanode-runtime crate as a separate mod
- Fixed Run-time supply
- Conducted tests for Fixed Run-time Supply
- Bumped rust to the latest version
- Converted the bioauth pallet events to the structured form

2. Humanode Webapp

- TestScan for FaceTec ( Dev tool for collecting face scan data)

3. Others
-Off-chain mapping of substrate addresses for Humanode Public Sale


Follow Humanode on all platforms to keep yourself updated and never miss any announcements :))


1- Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/human-node/
2- Discord - https://link.humanode.io/chat
3- Twitter - https://twitter.com/humanode_io
4- Telegram - https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanode
5- Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/humanode_official/

Biweekly update on @Humanode vol.28
13th July — 27th July

Testnet 3 “Ramiel” is now public, the Public Sale whitelist is here, The Fire Element NFT and HMND tokens drop announced, Dev updates are out, Humanode at EthCC, Weekend community contest winners, and more!

TL;DR
Hello to the amazing crypto fans and tech enthusiasts! The last two weeks have been extremely intense and fruitful for the Humanode team, and we can’t wait to share some of the most significant news with you!
The great news is, that Humanode Testnet 3 “Ramiel” is now public! Ramiel is the next major step towards the launch of the Humanode Mainnet this summer. The team is focusing on brushing up the system, moving from permissioned Proof of Authority where nodes are supposed to trust each other, to a trustless permissionless system, and bringing EVM compatibility to the Humanode testnet. Test it out!
Moreover, yesterday, the Humanode team shared some long-awaited news about where they are headed. First of all, they announced the whitelist for Humanode public sale on Tokensoft in the upcoming months. The whitelist spots are limited that is why they decided to have three different waves so that more dedicated ecosystem members could get into an earlier wave. Those who partook in the testnets will be allocated to the first wave. To verify that one has indeed participated in the testnet the team has created a special address mapper that will help to connect your Substrate address used for testnets with your Ethereum address that will be used for the public sale. Once your address is mapped you will be considered whitelisted for the sale, but only if you have participated in the testnets. Save the Ethereum address to use it on the day of the actual sale and claim your spot in the first wave!
Furthermore, they announced the Fire Element NFT and HMND tokens drop. The team will reward Testnet 1 “Sachiel” human nodes with a special NFT that will resemble their achievement in becoming the first wave of human nodes to run as validators. Every week the Fire Element will be sent out to those who mapped their addresses until everyone receives them. Furthermore, the team decided to reward Humanode testers with some HMND tokens for their efforts! They will be distributed randomly throughout the first month after TGE. But only to those who ran nodes on Humanode testnets before yesterday’s announcement was posted.
During these weeks, Humanode teams were working tirelessly to make significant progress with current tasks. The progress was minutely shared in their regular development update. As for the network development, the team integrated the pots into the humanode runtime, moved crypto helper functions from chainspec to humanode-runtime crate as a separate mod, fixed Run-time supply, conducted tests for Fixed Run-time Supply, bumped rust to the latest version, and converted the bioauth pallet events to the structured form. Considering the Web App, they implemented TestScan for FaceTec (Dev tool for collecting face scan data). Also, the team has been working on off-chain mapping of Substrate addresses for Humanode Public Sale.
While most of the Humanode team members are working on the mainnet, some of them were happy enough to meet human nodes IRL at EthCC Week in Paris last week, where Humanode researcher Sasha gave a talk on biometric-based NFTs and EthCC 5. Watch the recording! And don’t hesitate to read how biometrics (and Humanode) can solve the issues with NFTs in the freshly-published article on Hackernoon.
Also, Humanode weekend community contest winners were announced on Humanode Discord. Winners will get 100 USDT each. Thank everyone for your participation!
That’s a wrap! As of now, the Humanode team is making the final preparations to head to the public sale and the subsequent mainnet release in the upcoming months. Stay tuned, this is just the beginning!

#Humanode https://medium.com/paradigm-research/humanode-testnet-3-ramiel-is-now-public-the-public-sale-whitelist-is-here-the-fire-element-bf56bb7bcfe3

Evgeny Gaevoy , CEO of Wintermute believes that

“A governance model that is neither anarchy-driven nor controlled by whales or core teams is most feasible for decentralised protocols.”

Watch Evgeny take on governance at Humanode Conference 2022: https://lnkd.in/dK9YjMuf

Find out why 3D liveness detection makes biometric authentication accurate! FaceTec’s VP operations, Jay Meier, explained how FaceTecInc ensure secure and accurate verification.

Watch here: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxNvUIaPGtt8ZBXb3wHBqEFN9vlzHaZZin

Hey there Human nodes and friends!

The Fire Element was minted and sent to those addresses that were submitted to the mapper. But only those who really participated in Testnet 1 "Sachiel" received it! Around 70 were sent out. Thank you for being with us for such a long time. It will always resemble your dedication and demonstrate that you were a first generation Human node!

There are another ~70 unclaimed waiting for their owners to show up.

Other elements coming soon! Stay tuned!

Humanode is excited to announce a partnership with Ink Finance - a leading DAO governance protocol that enables businesses to easily set up and organize as DAOs across multiple blockchains.

Read to know How Humanode's Crypto-biometrics will augment INK Finance network: https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-partners-with-ink-finance/

Humanode Bi-Weekly Dev Updates (09-08-2022)

Hello, Human nodes and friends!

Here are the bi-weekly updates on the Humanode network.

1. Humanode Network
🔺Added an RPC endpoint returning the validator public key
🔺Returned ValidatorPublicKey itself
🔺Implementation of Token Vesting
🔺Refactored the eip712 code to enable more reuse, and switches the codebase to the ethereum primitives crate.

2. Humanode Bio-Auth
🔺Updated the range for generating plaintext space size
🔺Converted face detection model from torch to Caffe
🔺Integrated Fourier transform loss for liveness detection model
🔺Implemented CycleGAN and Autoencoder-based liveness detection model

3. Substrate
🔺Improved parsing performance in non-macro mode
🔺Exposed a size_hint() for TokenStream's iterator


4. Humanode WebApp
🔺TestScan for FaceTec ( Dev tool for collecting face scan data)



Follow Humanode on all platforms to keep yourself updated and never miss any announcements :))


1- Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/human-node/
2- Discord - https://link.humanode.io/chat
3- Twitter - https://twitter.com/humanode_io
4- Telegram - https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanode
5- Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/humanode_official/

Biweekly update on @Humanode vol.29

27th July — 10th August

Partnership with INK Finance announced, Public sale on Tokensoft soon, The Fire Element minted and sent to the first human nodes, Dev updates are out, and more!

TL;DR
Hello to our community of crypto and tech enthusiasts! It’s time for our biweekly report on Humanode!
As of now, the Humanode team is making the final preparations to head to the public sale and the subsequent mainnet release in the upcoming months. They announced the whitelist for Humanode public sale on Tokensoft in the upcoming months. The whitelist spots are limited that is why they decided to have three different waves so that more dedicated ecosystem members could get into an earlier wave. Logically those who partook in the testnets will be allocated to the first wave. To verify that one has indeed participated in the testnet the team has created a special address mapper that will help to connect your Substrate address used for testnets with your Eth address that will be used for the public sale. Once your address is mapped you will be considered whitelisted for the sale, but only if you have participated in the testnets. Save the Eth address to use it on the day of the actual sale and claim your spot in the first wave!
A few days ago, the team announced a partnership with Ink Finance — a leading DAO governance protocol that enables businesses to easily set up and organize as DAOs across multiple blockchains. The partnership with Humanode will help Ink Finance to make the DAO ecosystem secure, transparent, and Sybil resistant.
Keep in mind, that Humanode Testnet 3 “Ramiel” is now public and you can easily test it out! Ramiel is the next major step towards the launch of the Humanode Mainnet this summer. The team is focusing on brushing up the system, moving from permissioned Proof of Authority where nodes are supposed to trust each other, to a trustless permissionless system, and bringing EVM compatibility to the Humanode testnet.
As was mentioned in the previous report, the Humanode team decided to reward Testnet 1 “Sachiel” human nodes with a special NFT that will resemble their achievement in becoming the first wave of human nodes to run as validators. Furthermore, the team decided to reward Humanode testers with some HMND tokens for their efforts! They will be distributed randomly throughout the first month after TGE. But only to those who ran nodes on Humanode testnets before yesterday’s announcement was posted.
During these weeks, Humanode teams were working tirelessly to make significant progress with current tasks. The progress was minutely shared in their regular dev update. As for the network development, the team added an RPC endpoint returning the validator public key, returned ValidatorPublicKey itself, implementation of Token Vesting, refactored the eip712 code to enable more reuse, and switches the codebase to the ethereum primitives crate. Considering the Bio-Auth, they updated the range for generating plaintext space size, converted the face detection model from torch to Caffe, integrated Fourier transform loss for the liveness detection model, and implemented CycleGAN and Autoencoder-based liveness detection model. And more!
That’s all for today! Stay in the loop!

#Humanode https://medium.com/paradigm-research/humanode-partnership-with-ink-finance-announced-public-sale-on-tokensoft-soon-the-fire-element-4ba4c810fa20

Unlock your creativity and join the HUMANODE ART CONTEST!

We are looking forward to see any type of art pieces under the theme:
“What the hell is Humanode?”

This may include:
-drawing
-painting
-sketch
-poster design
-sculpture
-any type of digital art
-etc.

Be free and open to express yourself. Let us realize the truth. We await your entries.
Tweet your entries on Twitter as a single tweet and tag @humanode_io with hashtag #humanodeartcontest then share the link to #art-contest channel on Discord starting August 12th - 28th 2022. 12 PM UTC.


10 winners will earn rewards from a USDT prize pool.

Rules:
Only original pieces will be considered.
-Users may submit more than one piece (Including:drawing, painting, sketch, poster design, sculpture, any type of digital art, etc)
-Tweet your entry with @humanode_io and hashtag #humanodeartcontest
-Post link to a tweet to Discord #art-contest channel
-Submissions are open until August 28th 2022. 12 PM UTC.
-Judging criteria based on creativity and relevance to Humanode.
-Humanode has the right to delete inappropriate content without any explanation.

Have fun!

Public Sale Updates

Hey there human nodes and friends!

It’s been three weeks since we’ve announced the beginning of the whitelisting campaign. A lot has been happening recently so we wanted to share some internal as well as public sale updates with you.

Public sale dates

After receiving more than 11k sign ups from various groups in the Humanode community we have finally settled upon the dates! Note that changes might occur and these dates are preliminary.

Wave 1 : Sep 14, 2022

Wave 2 : Sep 20, 2022

Wave 3 : Sep 27, 2022

Those who’d like to get into Wave 1 still have time to deploy a node or reserve a spot through Wave 1 for non-validators by writing an in-depth article or doing a video review.

The whitelist will be open for all the waves right until their respective sales are conducted.

Whitelist details can be accessed here: https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/whitelist-details/about-the-whitelist

Options

We tried to approach the price formation by balancing out various risks poised by difference in price, unlock amounts and cliff-vesting timings. All the options will be available to all the waves.

Option 1 : 0.1725 | 100% unlocked at TGE

Option 2 : 0.15 | 30% unlocked at TGE | 70% - 3-month cliff and 3-month vesting

Option 3 : 0.13 | 20% unlocked at TGE | 80% - 6-month cliff and 6-month vesting

You can find more details here:

https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/public-sale-details/public-sale-options-and-prices

Address mappings

With the beginning of the whitelisting campaign we have rolled out special address mappers to validate those who really participated in the testnets and ran nodes. As mentioned before all Humanode validators are eligible for Wave 1. We haven’t disclosed this explicitly but this mapper is actually our sybil-resistant tool. As validators definitely went through our biometric verification to launch their node and were able to participate in block generation and finalization this gives us the ability to iron out all the non-validator addresses that were submitted to try and get prioritization without participation.

Soon we will post a special checker that will allow you to understand whether you were admitted to Wave 1 based on the mappings. The link will become available on the gitbook page that describes participation requirements for Wave 1.

If something is wrong and you are not sure about the admittance - do not worry as we can figure it out, check and manually add you afterwards.

The link will become live here:

https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/whitelist-details/wave-1-for-validators-and-researchers

Wave 2 for friendly communities

Also as mentioned before the Wave 2 for Friends and Broader community is now available for claiming. DAO participants from LobsterDAO, Aragon, Proof of Humanity, Bankless and Gitcoin can now claim their respective place in the second wave through submitting the proper info to this form below.

Form for Wave 2 Broader community and Friends:

https://link.humanode.io/public-sale-whitelist/wave-2-broader-community

Roadmap release

To make sure that our path is aligned with the vision we have also released a roadmap to highlight our milestones after the mainnet.

Check it out here: https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/public-sale-details/roadmap

That'd be all for today! Thank you very much for your time and patience much more info and updates to follow. Stay tuned 😉

If you have any additional questions please do reach out!

Additional links:

Telegram group: https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanodes

Announcement channel: https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanode

Twitter: https://twitter.com/humanode_io

Youtube with educational videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCluI64-yFeEv8DmBucI74eQ

⚠️ SCAM ALERT ⚠️

Hey human nodes and friends!

Please be aware that someone pretending to be a Humanode team member sending out links and/or asking for funds, please do not comply.
Note that the Humanode team will NEVER DM you first. If you see a tweet (or a text, email or other message on social media) that tells you to pay with cryptocurrency, that's a scam.
Make sure to follow Humanode official channels. Check the links below (other links can be found in #resources on Humanode Discord):

Discord https://link.humanode.io/chat
Telegram Announcements https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanode
Telegram Group https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanodes
Twitter https://twitter.com/humanode_io

If you are still not sure, don't hesitate to ask in the group. We will help you. We are all part of the team, do not hesitate to ask any question you may have.

🔺Help the community by reporting it to #report-scams channel in Humanode server on Discord.

Hello Human Nodes and Friends,

Many of our engineers who are featured for their work on the Humanode protocol, like Mozgiii, Noah, Henry, and Tony have become well known in our community. But today, we would like to present you with the story of some of our team members who are a little more hidden but shape the core of the Humanode bio-authentication technology.

Read this article to know where they are heading, what their goal is, and where they are: https://blog.humanode.io/meet-the-humanode-developers/