InFath? Homomorphic encryption? Liveness Detection? 🤔

If those sound confusing to you, don’t worry. We’ve made a list of all Humanode terms for easy reference: https://forum.humanode.io/t/glossary-list-of-humanode-terms/44

Humanode Dev Report

Some quick bullet points with our community to shed some light on the exciting development that our dev team has been up to!

Humanode Network
Rebuilding Substrate framework for the needs of the crypto-biometric protocol:
- Set up Humanode Peer rebuilding multiple pieces of the original lib;
- Added Substrate-based RPC system;
- Developed simple cryptographic primitives to process required cryptographic checks on different sides of our components;
- Developed custom pallet-bioauth for biometric authentication logic and integrated into Humanode Peer;
- Integrated Polka explorer that now shows the result of biometric authentication;
- Implemented Aura consensus.
- Set up the infrastructure to connect all the pieces of the Humanode Network and applications on top of it.

Humanode consensus protocol
Continued our work on creating a consensus scalable among thousands of nodes ready for EVM-compatibility:
- Implemented Snow family consensus protocols which work with blockchains: Slush, Snowflake and Snowball;
- Modeled several attacks;
- Developed two types of simulations (single thread vs. multiple threads);
- Visualized interaction of nodes;
- Started building a general testing framework.

Crypto-biometric search and matching and liveness algorithms
The Biothentification team entered the experimentation stage of cryptographically secure search and matching algorithm schemes created in-house.

Biweekly update on @Humanode

vol. 1, 25th June - 9th July

The rebuilding of the Substrate framework for the needs of the crypto-biometric protocol, The work on consensus continues, An interview with Lead Developer, Fireside discussion on crypto-biometrics, Project’s main features outlined in the latest 101 video, Humanode podcast launches, Glossary is out, and more!

Dear community members, it’s time for our first biweekly report on Humanode! The past two weeks were a part of a marvelous journey — so let’s have a short overview of news and events which are the main focus of the current report.
We never cease to wonder at the progress the Humanode teams have made in recent days! As part of the development update, they’ve shared what they’ve been working on at this stage.
First and foremost, the rebuilding of the Substrate framework for the needs of the crypto-biometric protocol is ongoing. These weeks, the development team set up Humanode Peer rebuilding multiple pieces of the original lib, added Substrate-based RPC system, developed simple cryptographic primitives to process required cryptographic checks on different sides of the components, as well as developed custom pallet-bioauth for biometric authentication logic and integrated into Humanode Peer. Furthermore, they integrated Polkascan explorer that now shows the result of biometric authentication, and implemented Aura consensus. What’s more, they set up the infrastructure to connect all the pieces of the Humanode Network and applications on top of it.
Currently, the team is creating a consensus scalable among thousands of nodes ready for EVM-compatibility. Over the last two weeks, we saw a great progress in this field as the team implemented Snow family consensus protocols which work with blockchains (Slush, Snowflake and Snowball), modeled several attacks, developed two types of simulations (single thread vs. multiple threads), visualized interaction of nodes, and started building a general testing framework.
While the Humanode dev team was busy working on the aforementioned tasks, the bio-authentication team entered the experimentation stage of cryptographically secure search and matching and liveness algorithm schemes created in-house. Big news is on the way!
Human nodes, if you’ve ever wondered who is developing the Humanode project, this secret has been partially revealed! The team began a series of interviews with Humanode researchers, engineers and devs. The first interview featured mysterious MOZGIII, experienced blockchain architect and Humanode’s lead developer. In this interview, MOZGIII discussed his background, privacy and future, the project’s journey and goals, described what kind of problems the Humanode team is trying to solve and what technical challenges they have to face while building towards a decentralized future where one human = one node, and why it is important. Check it out!
Last week, the sixth ‘Humanode Fireside’ took place. The team was talking about cryptography and biometric identification. Their special guest was Rafael, one of the core cryptographers in the Humanode project. Listen to this and all previous episodes on the brand new Humanode Podcast.
Moreover, Shannon Higgins, Humanode Core member, recorded an intro episode of ‘Humanode in Simple Terms’ video series. In this episode, he goes over the most basic question of all ‘What is Humanode?’ A must-watch!
On top of that, Humanode’s latest blog post discussed Substrate, which happens to be a great platform to build the Humanode network on, and the team made a list of all Humanode terms for easy reference in their freshly-published ‘Glossary’. Find the link in this report.
That’s a wrap! Should have some exciting news to share with you in the coming weeks!

#Humanode https://medium.com/paradigm-fund/humanode-the-rebuilding-of-the-substrate-framework-for-the-needs-of-the-crypto-biometric-protocol-df70d16e5e1d

Vortex, an overview

In our latest blog post, we discuss Vortex, and how Humanode Network's governance will be decentralized from the start. It's important to stress that the Vortex is based on 1 human = 1 node = 1 vote, and that no matter how much money or power a person has, his vote only has equal power to his peers in the system.

https://blog.humanode.io/vortex-an-overview/

Take the Vortex Quiz after reading the article! 🤓💯

Our vision is to create a stable and just financial system that relies on the existence of human life itself, one human = one node. And Fath will work as the monetary algorithm for it to happen.

https://blog.humanode.io/fath-a-monetary-system-to-mitigate-currency-devaluation-and-deflation/

HUMANODE FIRESIDE: BIOMETRIC OWNERSHIP

Dear Friends and Human nodes,

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow in our telegram voice chat! We’ll be talking about biometric ownership and everything related to it.

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

When?
Wednesday, July 14h, 2021, 16:00 UTC

Where?
Humanode telegram group: https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanodes


P.S. For those who missed the previous discussion on crypto-biometrics, the recording is up on our Podcast and YouTube channel.

Human nodes,

Fireside is starting in an hour! ⏱
We’ll be talking about biometric ownership and everything related to it.

See you all in our Telegram voice chat at 16:00 UTC 👉🏻
http://t.me/humanodes

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Can we own biometric for ourselves?
Check out the Humanode podcast episode 12

🎧 https://anchor.fm/humanode/episodes/12---Humanode-Fireside-Biometric-Ownership-e14nlvd

Biometrics, an overview
At Humanode, we’re using biometrics to enable sybil resistance. This technology will ensure fair distribution of power and governance in distributed systems like blockchains.

https://blog.humanode.io/biometrics-an-overview/

HUMANODE FIRESIDE: BIOMETRICS FOR DEFI

Dear Friends and Human nodes,

We look forward to seeing you on the 28th of July in our telegram voice chat! We’ll be talking about the use of biometrics for DeFi.

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

When? 

Wednesday, July 28th, 2021, 16:00 UTC

Where? 

Humanode telegram group: https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanodes

P.S. For those who missed the previous discussion on biometrics ownership, the recording is up on our Podcast and YouTube channel.

Humanode Dev Report

Hello, and thank you for checking out the Humanode Dev Report. We'd like to share some bullet points with our community in this report to shine some light on the exciting advancements that our development team has been working on!

Humanode Network
🔺 Enabled logging at biometric processing server
🔺 Added TLS certificates to docker image to solve the biometric processing node deployment
🔺Ran bio-authentication flow at the node
🔺Reused the runtime at bioauth RPC instead of creating a new one
🔺Made StoredAuthTickets non-optional and default-initialized
🔺Continued implementing test environment

Crypto-biometric search and matching and liveness algorithms
🔺Added the SGDT model for single frame FAS
🔺Replaced ReLU by ReLUApprox in Resnet.py
🔺Modified template for relu approximation
🔺Modified the pose estimation part
🔺Updated facial expression module

Humanode consensus protocol
🔺Added labels to nodes
🔺Added no-answering attack mitigation
🔺Fixed bugs in Slowflake; progress on not-answering attack
🔺Experimented with graphics and widgets
🔺Added circular visualization, here is a sample of how it looks like:

Humanode in Simple Terms: Crypto-Biometrics

Welcome to the new episode of Humanode’s mini-series, HUMANODE 101 (or Humanode in Simple Terms).

In this video Shannon (@s9higgins) — Humanode Core member — goes over the basic concept of crypto-biometrics, and what it means to privacy and security of bio-authentication.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIe0GeuEp90&t=578s

Biweekly update on @humanode vol. 2

9th July - 23rd July

Updated facial expression model, Consensus circular visualization, An introduction to Fath monetary algorithm, Vortex overview, Fireside discussion on biometric ownership, Humanode 101 video on crypto-biometrics, and more!

Welcome, all crypto fans and tech enthusiasts, to our second biweekly report on Humanode, decentralized private biometrically encrypted consensus mechanism, and monetary system!
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, the team enabled logging at biometric processing server, added TLS certificates to docker image to solve the biometric processing node deployment, ran bio-authentication flow at the node, reused the runtime at bioauth RPC instead of creating a new one, made StoredAuthTickets non-optional and default-initialized, and continued implementing test environment. Considering crypto-biometric search and matching and liveness algorithms, the dev team added the SGDT model for single frame FAS, replaced ReLU by ReLUApprox in Resnet.py, modified the template for relu approximation and the pose estimation part, as well as updated the facial expression module. The work on consensus continues. Over this time, the team added labels to nodes and no-answering attack mitigation, fixed bugs in Slowflake, experimented with graphics and widgets, and added fancy circular visualization (check it out in our report).
Last week, the seventh ‘Humanode Fireside’ took place. The team was talking about biometric ownership and everything related to it. Listen to this and all previous episodes on the Humanode Podcast. Next Wednesday the team is going to discuss the use of biometrics for DeFi. Join them in the Telegram voice chat!
On top of that, Humanode's latest blog post discusses Fath. Humanode's vision is to create a stable and just financial system that relies on the existence of human life itself, and Fath will work as the monetary algorithm for it to happen. Fath takes its name from the term Fathom, which means a deep understanding of why something is happening after much thought and summarizes properly how the process was to get here. It establishes two principles - proportional distribution and rebalancing. To better understand these principles, take a deeper look at each of them and why they exist in the blog.
As many of you know, the Humanode team is using biometrics to enable Sybil resistance. This technology ensures fair distribution of power and governance in distributed systems like blockchains. Read more about biometric types, modalities, pros & cons, examples in use, and privacy considerations in the freshly-published article in the Humanode blog. Furthermore, the team recently overviewed Humanode DAO named Vortex, and how Humanode governance will be decentralized from the start. Vortex is based on 1 human = 1 node = 1 vote, no matter how much money or power a person has, his vote only has equal power to his peers. Check out the publication for more details.
Moreover, Shannon Higgins, Humanode Core member, has just recorded a new episode of ‘Humanode in Simple Terms’ video series. In this episode, he goes over the basic concept of crypto-biometrics, and what it means to privacy and security of bio-authentication. A must-watch!
That’s all for today! Have a great weekend!

#Humanode https://twitter.com/Paradigm_fund/status/1418624108695326720?s=20

Liveness detection solutions, a comparison

Check out a detailed list of liveness detection providers and a quick overview of their technologies in our new blog post.

https://blog.humanode.io/liveness-detection-solutions-a-comparison/

HUMANODE FIRESIDE: BIOMETRICS FOR DEFI

Dear Friends and Human nodes,

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow in our telegram voice chat! We’ll be talking about the use of biometrics for DeFi.

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

When? 

Wednesday, July 28th, 2021, 16:00 UTC

Where? 

Humanode telegram group: https://news.1rj.ru/str/humanodes

P.S. For those who missed the previous discussion on biometrics ownership, the recording is up on our Podcast and YouTube channel.

Human nodes,

Fireside is starting in an hour! ⏰
We’ll be talking about the use of biometrics for DeFi.

See you all in our Telegram voice chat at 16:00 UTC
http://t.me/humanodes