Biweekly update on @Humanode vol.32

7th September — 21st September

Testnet 4 ‘Gaghiel’ launched, Public tests of token vesting and claiming, Wave 1 of Public sale to go live on October 6, Regular dev updates are here, ‘Humanode’s Got Talent’ contest is ongoing, and more!

TL;DR
Hey, human nodes and friends! It’s time for our regular recap of all things Humanode! The last two weeks were full of hard work and contributions — so let’s have a short overview of the latest news.
First of all, last week, the Humanode team announced the launch of the Humanode testnet 4 ‘Gaghiel’ that is focusing on token claims, vesting, and unlocking systems that the team will use to distribute tokens at TGE.
Due to pending US compliance approval the team was forced to push the Humanode public sale a bit further. Wave 1 which is dedicated to Humanode validators and researchers is set to go live on the 6th of October, 14:00 UTC. Humanode has reached the quota for it, so Wave 1 whitelist will remain closed and no new submissions will be accepted. If you’re not whitelisted, Waves 2 and 3 for friends and the broader community are still open. DAO participants from LobsterDAO, Aragon, Proof of Humanity, Bankless, and Gitcoin can now claim their respective places in the second wave by submitting the proper required info.
Keep in mind, that the KYC processing of the participants for the Public sale has been initiated. Tokensoft is now going through the ETH addresses submitted to all waves.
As usual, during these weeks, the Humanode team made significant progress with current tasks. The progress was minutely shared in their regular development update.
As for the network development, the team limited the session validators’ amount, added benchmark template with doc and cache to End to End tests, bumped Rust to nightly, set the default SS58 prefix to our chosen one in the chain code, improved error handling at ngrok RPC URL detection, and backported CI improvements to Testnet 3.
Considering the Bio-Auth, they improved the optical flow visualization-based liveness detection approach by using soft labeling, and implemented Kubeflow pipeline in Bio-Auth repo.
Other than that, the ‘Humanode’s Got Talent’ contest is live. If you do magic tricks, play musical instruments, sing, dance, or have any other talent to show it is the time to express yourself and show off and a great chance to win $ 1,000. The team awaits your entries!
That’s all for today! More exciting news to come!

#Humanode https://medium.com/paradigm-research/humanode-testnet-4-gaghiel-launched-public-tests-of-token-vesting-and-claiming-wave-1-of-9c467f250132

👋🏽Hello human nodes and friends!

Due to popular demand we are extending the deadline for entries to our current Humanode's Got Talent!

🔥 Deadline is now October 5th, 2022. 12PM UTC 🔥

This gives more time for you to show us something amazing to enter in to win the prizes. Keep in mind it can be ANY kind of acts. Magic tricks, music, singing, dancing, somersaults, or anything!

And we will make this one a nice community event before the public sale begins the next day ;)

Please Note- All entries need to be submitted in a Twitter link format in Humanode Discord channel #humanodes-got-talent. (Check the contest rules here.)

5 Winners will earn rewards from 2,000 USDC prize pool.

1st - 1,000 USDC
2nd - 400 USDC
3rd - 300 USDC
4th - 200 USDC
5th - 100 USDC

We await your entries.
And until then, have an awesome weekend! 🍻🤩

Scam alert: there is a Humanode Hub named group with a different handle. We do not hold any token sale right now. Please 🙏 wait for the official announcement. Check humanode.io for links.

Hello human nodes!
As you all know Humanode and AIKON have partnered to make the web3 more secure and accessible to a wider range of users. This is a big step forward for projects in the web3.

Read this interview as Marc Blinder, the founder of AIKON, discusses the strategic partnership with Humanode and how it will help projects in the Web3: https://blog.humanode.io/marc-blinder-humanodexaikon/

Humanode Bi-Weekly Dev Updates (04-10-2022)

Hello, Human nodes and friends!

With Public sale and the Mainnet launch around the corner here are some exciting bi-weekly updates on the Humanode network.

1. Humanode Network
🔺Tweaks in Bioauth limits at runtime
🔺Fixed protocol installation at CI
🔺Implemented manual signing support for token claims
🔺Add multi-sig support.
🔺Switched pallet-bioauth to BoundedVec
🔺Limited the session validators amount

2. Humanode Bio-Auth
🔺Added images to the face recognition datasets and started retraining
🔺Improved the accuracy of optical flow visualization based liveness detection with enhanced datasets
🔺Automated the evaluation process of optical flow visualization based liveness detection

3. Others
🔺Enabled IP address family preference selection while doing DNS resolution
🔺Updated Humanode docs

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.33

22nd September — 5th October

Wave 1 of the Public sale to go live tomorrow — October 6, Multisig support on Humanode chain, Regular dev updates are here, An interview with the co-founder of AIKON — Humanode’s partner, ‘Humanode’s Got Talent’ deadline is today, and more!

TL;DR
Hey, human nodes! Are you ready for an upcoming public sale? Only a few hours left before the first wave starts. Wave 1 which is dedicated to Humanode validators and researchers is set to go live tomorrow, the 6th of October, at 14:00 UTC. Humanode has reached the quota for it, so Wave 1 whitelist will remain closed and no new submissions will be accepted. If you’re not whitelisted, Waves 2 and 3 for friends and the broader community are still open. DAO participants from LobsterDAO, Aragon, Proof of Humanity, Bankless, and Gitcoin can now claim their respective places in the second wave by submitting the proper required info.
While you are preparing your minds and hearts for the public sale, read our report full of the latest Humanode updates. The last two weeks have been extremely intense and exciting for the Humanode teams.
As for the network development, the team implemented manual signing support for token claims, added multi-sig support, fixed protocol installation at CI, switched pallet-bioauth to BoundedVec, and limited the session validators amount.
Considering the Bio-Auth, they added images to the face recognition datasets and started retraining, improved the accuracy of optical flow visualization-based liveness detection with enhanced datasets, and automated the evaluation process of optical flow visualization-based liveness detection.
Moreover, the Humanode team enabled IP address family preference selection while doing DNS resolution, and updated Humanode docs.
As you all know Humanode and AIKON have partnered recently to make web3 more secure and accessible to a wider range of users. This is a big step forward for projects in web3. Read the freshly-published interview as Marc Blinder, the founder of AIKON, discusses the strategic partnership with Humanode and how it will help projects in Web3.
Humanode will be presenting at The DAOist conference in Bogota, Colombia the day before Devcon. Going to shed light on the real state of decentralization in crypto.
Due to popular demand, the team extended the deadline for entries to our current ‘Humanode’s Got Talent’ contest. The deadline is today, hurry up! If you do magic tricks, play musical instruments, sing, dance, or have any other talent to show it is the time to express yourself and show off and a great chance to win $ 1,000. The team awaits your entries!

#Humanode https://medium.com/paradigm-research/humanode-wave-1-of-public-sale-to-go-live-tomorrow-on-october-6-regular-dev-updates-are-here-8b83b75df0d8

Dear Fellow Human nodes and friends,

Unfortunately due to legal constraints (and bureaucrats in the middle), we have been forced to delay Wave 1 yet again by 24 hours. I know, it sucks. Although our legal team has been working 24/7, and our tech team has been prepared for quite some time already. It has been taking extra time to slice through the bureaucratic red tape, one of the greatest and oldest monsters humanity has had to face.

The good news is that this seems to be the last delay, and the Wave 1 sale will happen on Oct 7th, 2022.

So, in order to be prepared for Wave 1, we would like to share the token sale guide with you in advance. If you are scheduled to participate in the sale, please check out the guide linked below.

Guide - https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/public-sale-guide/welcome-to-the-guide

As the sale has been delayed by 24 hours, so will the deadline for Humanode’s Got Talent. If you are rendering like crazy or trying to upload in time, lucky you! You have been granted an extra 24H! Don’t miss this opportunity!

We will also be having a live chat with Fiona and Shannon in Discord (#HumanodeRadio) today, starting 13:00 UTC (Oct 6th, 2022). So if you have any questions about Humanode in general, or about the public sale, come and join us!

Hello human nodes,

as Wave 1 public sale is starting soon, we have an important information for you.

People from the banned countries are restricted to participate in the sale. Here’s the list of restricted regions:

United States;
the Province of Ontario of Canada;
the People’s Republic of China;
Afghanistan;
British Virgin Islands;
Central African Republic;
Congo;
Democratic Republic of the Congo;
Republic of the Cote D'Ivoire;
Crimea (a region of Ukraine annexed by the Russian Federation);
the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (a region of Ukraine);
the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (a region of Ukraine);
Cuba;
El Salvador;
Eswatini;
Gambia;
Iran;
Iraq;
Liberia;
Libya;
Malawi;
Mali;
Moldova;
Myanmar;
Niger;
North Korea;
Palestinian Territory;
South Sudan;
Sudan;
Syria;
Venezuela;
Yemen;
Zambia;
Zimbabwe;
Any jurisdiction in which the ownership of HMND Tokens is prohibited by applicable law;
Any state, country or other jurisdiction that is sanctioned or embargoed by the United States, the United Nations, the United Kingdom, Australia, the European Union, Switzerland; and
Any jurisdiction wherein the purchase, ownership, acquisition, distribution, sale, or any combination thereof, of virtual assets or Humanode Tokens is prohibited or contrary to any applicable Law or could subject the Company to any local registration, regulatory or licensing requirements.

Hey hey, human nodes and friends! 👋

We are thrilled to announce that

🔥Public Sale for Wave 1 is live now! 🔥

From our beta versions to all the community events, we know a lot of you have been waiting for this moment. Now is your time to grab this opportunity.

Wave 1 will last from Friday, October 7th (14:00 UTC) until Monday, October 10th (14:00 UTC). The sale is first come, first served, so we'd better get there early. :)

To join the public sale head over to Tokensoft: https://app.tokensoft.io

You can check out this guide to make sure everything goes smoothly: https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/public-sale-guide/welcome-to-the-guide

Important:
1. Only the addresses whitelisted in Wave 1 can join this sale.
2. Multiple transactions with different options are OK as long as you don’t exceed the max purchase.
3. There are 3 options you can choose from. You can buy all 3 options as well.

Due to a technical mistake the purchase of Wave 1 will be restricted to USDT and ETH only.

BUT the sale was now set to go until 11 oct at 1400 UTC so that everyone who encountered the problem can reposition themselves. Sorry for the inconvenience and good luck!

There have been a few cases when human nodes got into whitelist, based out of a non-restricted territory, and still got a message as if they are not eligible to participate in Wave 1. The reason is - you’ve got multiple accounts on Tokensoft, and Tokensoft allows the use only of the primary account. We’re working with their team now to solve the issue, stay tuned!

Dear human nodes, if you were whitelisted for Humanode Wave 1 and you're from non-restricted country but could not participate - check the Tokensoft page again. Tokensoft is following the thesis of one person - one account, hence you got an error before. Now you will be able to participate with your whitelisted wallet even if it's not your primary one. But you'll be able to use only one address!

Dear Human nodes and friends,

Wave II will commence on October 12th, 2022 at 14:00 UTC

In order to be prepared for Wave II, we would like to share the guide with you in advance. If you are poised to participate in Wave II, please check out the guide linked below.

Guide - https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/public-sale-guide/welcome-to-the-guide

📢 Submissions to Wave II Whitelist will Close Tomorrow October 11th at 20:00 UTC! 📢

As we have 2 days to go before Wave II, the submission for whitelisting will close soon. Those who aren't whitelisted yet, can reserve their spot before 20:00 UTC tomorrow (Tuesday, 11th October).

For submissions to Wave II, check this link: https://link.humanode.io/public-sale-whitelist/wave-2-broader-community

Important - Please don’t forget to go through the KYC on Tokensoft to avoid any inconveniences.

If you haven’t yet, click this link: https://app.tokensoft.io/account

As mentioned before - ETH, USDC and USDT will be available as methods for purchase.

Thank you and have a great rest of the day!

P.S Also check the list of restricted countries and sorry if you find yourself in there.

Hello, human nodes and friends,

Wave I is officially over at 14:00 UTC today (11-10-22).

We are very delighted to be joined by our long-time followers and would like to thank validators and researchers for following and supporting us since the very beginning. Regardless of the market conditions you have shown your utmost support and we will continue to prove that we deserve it!

What’s next now?

Humanode is preparing for the TGE and the upcoming Mainnet launch in Q4, 2022.

Everyone will be able to claim the purchased tokens shortly after the Wave III is settled. We will make an official announcement with a guide to Claim Tokens right before the Mainnet launch.

You Must be in control of the receiving address that you used for the token purchase. So please, don’t lose your mnemonic and take care of the private key!

Thanks again for your support!

Humanode Core

*Note:

Submissions to Whitelist for Wave II and Wave III is still open.

Check these links if you haven’t already applied.

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

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

📢 Submission to the Wave II whitelist is closed 📢

Hey, human nodes and friends!

As the Wave II Public offering is bound to start tomorrow (Wednesday 12th October 2022) whitelist registration is now closed.

We thank everyone who registered for the Wave II whitelist. We will remove it from the WL Gitbook and no new entries will be accepted.

Those who applied for whitelisting to Wave II can prepare their wallets for the event starting tomorrow on Tokensoft.

Here’s the guide to help you understand the process of Wave II: https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/public-sale-guide/welcome-to-the-guide

Head over to Tokensoft to check that the KYC of your account is in order before the sale: https://app.tokensoft.io

PS - If you’re not whitelisted to Wave II, Wave III is still open.

Get whitelisted to Wave III: https://link.humanode.io/public-sale-whitelist/wave-3

Dear friends and human nodes,

As we have been concentrated on the public side of things for quite a while we have not covered the technological developments that are soon to follow. Want to shed some light on what awaits Humanode in the upcoming months.

Humanode Mainnet

The Humanode mainnet will go live on November 15th. Don’t want to go into obvious emotional details of how we all have been waiting for this moment, but we really have. Got some early on facts about how it is going to deploy and what to expect as a future first generation human node.

Overall deployment

• Humanode’s sybil defense is crypto-biometric based, meaning that there is no PoW or PoS. No changes have been made for the mainnet so we are going to be the first network ever to deploy a consensus safeguarded purely by Proof-of-Uniqueness and Proof-of-Existence of human beings. Just a reminder.

• By design all human nodes will be equal in terms of the validation power.

• At the beginning there is going to be no DAO, cause it’s something that we are aiming to build, but Proof-of-Time will already be in place calculating uptime and longevity of nodes validating transactions. If you don’t really get what I am writing about here check out this article on Vortex to know where we are going.

• The claim list will be uploaded into the genesis so that all participants of the waves could claim their respective tokens. It is going to be done the very same way as you’ve been doing it on testnet 4. More thorough guides would be provided later.

• Besides the mainnet we are also going to launch a canary network, a testnet for mainnet and a testnet for the canary network to give tools to build some really creative stuff.

• As on Ramiel and Gaghiel consensus mechanism that is utilized is Grandpa + Babe with the hard consistency threshold at 66% + 1, or more specifically a BFT formula of n = 5f + 1, where n - all human nodes and f - malicious nodes.