Humanode Announcements

Time for this week's validator poll. If you’ve linked your validator address to your bio-authenticated Discord, just head to ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠validator-polls and vote. If not, you can still do it. Remember, voting is part of the deal under Proof-of-Polls to be eligible for full validator rewards. As always, the poll will be open for 3 days. Jump in and cast your vote. For more information: https://blog.humanode.io/update-on-the-validator-fee-structure/ Guide: https://link.humanode.io/guide/validator-address-submission

Get onchain uniqueness verification for free on Avalanche Avalanche was the very first chain where Humanode Biomapper went live. Now with the launch of Biomapper C2, we’re giving it a big boost. The first 10,000 biomaps + bridges on Avalanche are free. (Humanode refunds biomap, network, and bridge fees in HMND/eHMND.) Here’s how it works: Biomap → Bridge to Avalanche → Your wallet is marked as unique human-verified. That means one wallet = one real person, ready for Avalanche dApps that need Sybil resistance. For builders on Avalanche: this free campaign means free user onboarding and an instant pool of verified wallets to plug into your dApp. Use it for airdrops, governance, mints, or any use case that requires poof of personhood. Refunds for free slots will be airdropped on Sept 30th. Claim your free biomap: Biomap & Bridge to Avalanche How to Biomap (video) Rules & FAQs

At HumanodeCon IV in Romania, the panel debated: “How far are we from a Planetary DAO?” 🌍 The contra team argued: 👉 If there’s only one planetary DAO, a single failure could wipe everyone out. 👉 With many DAOs, each thriving in its own ecosystem, it would take multiple failures before humanity as a whole is affected. So… what do you think? Do you believe a planetary DAO is possible? 🤔

Humanity Score just got a new power-up. Yes, Orange Protocol has just plugged in the Humanode Biomapper on the Ontology EVM. Biomap → Bridge on Ontology EVM to earn +20 Humanity Score. And here’s the hint: In the coming weeks, Orange Protocol and Humanode will roll out new activities with incentives ; ) For a limited time, biomapping is free under the Biomapper C2 campaign (fees refunded until Sept 30). That means you can secure your Humanity Score boost at no cost. Getting verified now will put you ahead. Don’t miss the chance to lock in your +20 Humanity Score early. Claim your free biomap here: Biomap & Bridge: https://mainnet.biomapper.hmnd.app/dashboard How to Biomap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9K9zB-8yok Verify on Orange:https://app.orangeprotocol.io/c/space/info Rules & FAQs: https://blog.humanode.io/rules-and-faqs-for-biomapper-c2-campaign/

A business runs on trust in numbers. Every click, every review, every sign-up is a promise: this is real. But bots and duplicate accounts break that promise. They drain ad budgets, hijack rewards, and poison metrics. What looks like growth on paper is often just shadows. At Humanode, we’ve built BotBasher, Biomapper, and OAuth2 to fight that shadow economy. And with Humanode 1.0, we’ll be bringing it all together with SRGate: a universal verification path to make sure behind every account there’s a unique human, not a script. Because when businesses can measure real customers, trust in the digital economy can finally grow again. Read the full article: https://blog.humanode.io/why-srgate-matters-for-anyone-building-online/

It’s Humanode Fireside time again This Friday, September 26th, we’ll be around for a casual catch-up with the Humanode founders, Dato, and Victor, just to hang out. No set themes. It could be a discussion around recent Humanode updates, or maybe we have guests coming over. 🗓️ Friday, September 26th 🕑 2 PM UTC 📍Humanode Radio Set your reminder.

🟡 Episteme: Eidōlon Testnet is live on Humanode Open questions now trade like assets. @Episteme_ac transforms scientific hypotheses into live markets: conviction becomes a position, resolution becomes a verdict. How it works • Hypothesis → market • Long or short your belief • AI oracles scan global research • Odds shift in real time • Resolution → rewards for forecasters + scientists It’s DeScAI on Humanode The chain carries the mechanism. The crowd carries the weight. 👉 Apply for whitelist: https://www.episteme.ac/whitelist Coming next First featured hypothesis drops next week.

Episteme turns hypotheses into tokenized prediction markets where truth is rewarded. Built on Humanode so fairness is the foundation. @Episteme_ac testnet is live → https://epistemesci.substack.com/p/announcing-the-eidolon-testnet Apply for whitelist → https://www.episteme.ac/whitelist

Proving you’re real shouldn’t require sharing your identity. Now you can add a Human Checkmark to your Talent Protocol profile using Humanode Biomapper C2 on Base. No KYC, no PII. Yes, Talent Protocol has Humanode Biomapper C2 on Base as an option to add the Human Checkmark to your creator profile. How it works: Biomap → Bridge to Base → Link the same wallet address to your Talent protocol account. As part of the ongoing Biomapper C2 release campaign, biomapping is free for the first 10,000 wallets that biomap and bridge to Base. Humanode refunds your biomap fee, Humanode network fee, and bridge/verify gas, so you can biomap for free and complete your Human checkmark on Talent protocol. Start here: Biomap & Bridge on Base How to Biomap Signup for Talent Protocol profile

Proving you’re real shouldn’t require sharing your identity. Now you can add a Human Checkmark to your Talent Protocol profile using Humanode Biomapper C2 on Base. No KYC, no PII. Yes, Talent Protocol has Humanode Biomapper C2 on Base as an option to add the Human Checkmark to your creator profile. How it works: Biomap → Bridge to Base → Link the same wallet address to your Talent protocol account. As part of the ongoing Biomapper C2 release campaign, biomapping is free for the first 10,000 wallets that biomap and bridge to Base. Humanode refunds your biomap fee, Humanode network fee, and bridge/verify gas, so you can biomap for free and complete your Human checkmark on Talent protocol. Start here: Biomap & Bridge on Base How to Biomap Signup for Talent Protocol profile

🎙“Truth must resist capture.” That’s the principle guiding Episteme, co-founded by Humanode’s own Sasha Shilina. @Episteme_ac flips the incentive structure of science: instead of prestige and gatekeepers, hypotheses become open markets where validation is rewarded. Episteme's Eidōlon Testnet is live on Humanode — and Sasha explains the vision in a new interview. 🔗https://blog.humanode.io/interview-sasha-shilina-on-episteme-humanode-and-the-future-of-scientific-truth/

Episteme × Humanode: Toward a Market for Scientific Truth 👩🏻‍🔬 Science faces strain: replication crises, misaligned incentives, paywalls. What if testing a hypothesis itself became open, collective, incentivized? That’s what @Episteme_ac is building: a prediction market for science. Running now on Humanode. 🔗Explore: https://blog.humanode.io/episteme-x-humanode-toward-a-market-for-scientific-truth/

▶️ Real humans, real arguments, good coffee. HumanodeCon IV highlight reel. See you next year!👋

▶️ Real humans, real arguments, good coffee. HumanodeCon IV highlight reel. See you next year!👋

▶️ Real humans, real arguments, good coffee. HumanodeCon IV highlight reel. See you next year! 👋

Search for an address. See if it’s human-verified. That’s now possible in Blockscout. Yes, Blockscout has integrated Humanode Biomapper C2 into its explorers. Now, whenever you look up an EVM address, you’ll see whether it’s Humanode verified in the widgets section. Biomap → Bridge to a supported chain → your wallet shows a green verified human status in Blockscout. For more details: https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-biomapper-is-now-integrated-into-blockscout-explorers/ To mark the release of Biomapper C2, Humanode is running a campaign: Get biomapped and bridged on supported chains for free under quota. Fees refunded (biomap, network, bridge). One wallet per person. Limited spots per chain. Rules & quotas: https://blog.humanode.io/rules-and-faqs-for-biomapper-c2-campaign/ Live on these explorers: Base: https://base.blockscout.com/ Scroll: https://scroll.blockscout.com/ Arbitrum: http://arbitrum.blockscout.com/ Filecoin: https://filecoin.blockscout.com/ Unichain: https://unichain.blockscout.com/ Hyperliquid: https://www.hyperscan.com/ Etherlink: https://explorer.etherlink.com/

Humanode Biweekly vol. 106 is here! TL;DR ⛓️ Biomapper C2 lands on Wanchain ⭐️ Rubyscore becomes the first dApp on Soneium to integrate Biomapper 🗓 HumanodeCon IV in Bucharest was a blast 🗣 Victor Vernissage breaks down programmable democracy on Varn Vlog 📖 Fresh publications explore Sybil resistance and the question of digital selves https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-biweekly-vol-106/

What does it mean to be “alive” in digital systems? A blink may prove existence, but can it capture the plural self? Sasha Shilina explores liveness, identity, and multiplicity in Distributed Selves: Identity in a World of Liveness and Multiplicity. Read here: https://blog.humanode.io/distributed-selves-identity-in-a-world-of-liveness-and-multiplicity/

The internet was built on a simple promise: one person equals one account. One voice, one vote, one reward. But what happens when that promise breaks? When one person shows up wearing a hundred masks and ruins the experience? That’s a Sybil attack. The fix? Sybil resistance. We put together a guide that walks through what Sybil attacks are, how they wreck apps and businesses, and why Sybil resistance matters for the future of the internet. Read the full piece: https://blog.humanode.io/sybil-attacks-and-the-fight-for-sybil-resistance-explained/