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.

Validator onboarding

• At the beginning the amount of validators is going to be capped at 1000. Just cause we are cautious.

• If you’ve paid close attention to the HMND token distribution you might have noticed 2% reserved for mainnet validators. This is a special fund that will bootstrap the functioning of the first 100 human node validators that are going to join. Regardless of the saturation of the network it will cover the cost of running the nodes for several years to come.

• There will be no pre-onboarding period. The mainnet will be deployed at a particular time and the human nodes will be able to onboard themselves like they did to any other testnet.

• Note that there is going to be a lag between mainnet deployment and HMND hitting the exchanges so only those who acquired it beforehand would be able to deploy nodes as you need a small fee to bioauthorize your human nodes.

HMND listing

Due to legal boundaries of this very “free” and “decentralized” field we are all engaged in we are not yet allowed to publicly disclose the exchanges, but I would like for you to know that the integration has already begun and we are expecting to hit them ETA the end of november - beginning of december.

Hope I’ve been able to enlighten you a bit about the path that we’re taking. Although there have been testnets running for almost a year now and many improvements were made and bugs ironed out. Expect stuff to clunk, crash, bug out and burn. But regardless of how tough it is and how many obstacles we face, together with you we will overcome them all and bring proper distribution of power to web3 as it was intended from the beginning.

Hola, human nodes and friendly communities!

We are elated to announce that

🔥 Wave II is now live! 🔥

Humanode's active community members, those who attended Humanode events over the course of the last year, and members of the friendly communities get a chance to participate in Wave II.

Wave II has commenced on Wednesday, October 12th (14:00 UTC ) and will be open until Monday, October 17th (14:00 UTC). The event is first come, first serve. So you better be prepared.

Check this guide to prepare for the event and participate without any hassle:
https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/public-sale-guide/welcome-to-the-guide

Head over to Tokensoft to participate in the event: https://app.tokensoft.io

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

To check out how the Wave II goes in real time we have prepared some graphs for you: https://public-grafana.humanode.io/

Important:

1. Only the addresses whitelisted for Wave I and Wave II can join this event.

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.

4. There were no limits for the waves. All tokens were available for purchase on Wave I. Those that remained are now available on Wave II. Those that are left after Wave II will be available on Wave III.

5. If there are any tokens left after all the waves they will return to the treasury and will be locked for 4 + years.

P.S Also check the list of restricted countries:
https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/public-sale-details/the-list-of-restricted-countries
and sorry if you find yourself in there.

If you’re not in the Wave II whitelist, don’t worry because Wave III is still open. Submit your entry for Wave III whitelisting here:
https://link.humanode.io/public-sale-whitelist/wave-3

Thank you and have a great day!

Hello human nodes and friends!

Only 2 days left before Wave III goes live!

Just a reminder to check that you are whitelisted and have completed KYC on Tokensoft: https://public-sale-kyc-checker.humanode.io/

If there’s an issue you can reach out to Sillis or Fiona.

Also, if you are new to the community and want to know more about Humanode, check out these links:

1- https://gitbook.humanode.io/humanode-public-sale-details/public-sale-details/humanode-token-hmnd-supply-distribution
2- https://republic.com/blog/crypto/what-is-humanode-an-overview-of-the-human-powered-blockchain

Have a great week everybody, Thanks! 🥂

👋 Hello Humanodes and friends !

🔥Introducing: Humanode Torch🔥

For the next few weeks, we will be passing the torch around, and inviting you to share your thoughts about Humanode.

We may randomly ask the community a question, such as the current questions “Why Humanode?” and “What do you like about Humanode?”.

We will select an answer or two per day to be shared with the community, so we hope you will all participate!
We may randomly pass the torch to somebody in the community too, so if the torch is passed to you, grab the opportunity to speak out and inspire the global Humanode community!

👋🏼 Howdy human nodes and friendly communities,

Wave II is officially over!

With that in mind, we are only hours away from Wave III which will be open to everyone. So if you haven’t been able to participate in Wave II for some reason - don’t worry you have got another chance ;)

Join here: https://link.humanode.io/public-sale-whitelist/wave-3

Those who participated in Wave II can sit back and relax. We’ll announce the procedure for token claims closer to the Mainnet launch.

Thanks and have a good rest of the week!