Humanode: 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!
Biweekly update vol.29, 27th July — 10th August
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!
Public Sale & Humanode Mainnet
Today the team is technologically ready to deploy version one mainnet in the upcoming months with more than 10k people that went through the testnets. And they share some long-awaited news about where they are headed.
Humanode 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.
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:
The Humanode team rewards 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 they 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 use this link.
Every week the Fire Element will be sent out to those who mapped their addresses until everyone receives them.
Last week, those who really participated in Testnet 1 “Sachiel” received it! Around 70 were sent out.There are another ~70 unclaimed waiting for their owners to show up.
Other elements coming soon! Stay tuned!
- Sachiel, Shamshel, Ramiel…
At Testnet 1 “Sachiel” the team declared that validation wouldn’t be incentivized because they wanted only those who truly believe in the idea to risk engagement with Humanode untested tech. Thus they expected a bit more than a hundred testers. However, 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.
The Humanode team has 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 this announcement was posted.
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.
Humanode Testnet
🔺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 the community is remarkable.
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.
Some of the protocol-level features that live upon release of Ramiel are moving from Aura to BABE block production engine and GRANDPA for block finalization. Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility enables Solidity smart contracts on the Humanode chain. Users are also able to analyze their node activities in polkadot.js explorer: from bioauth status to block production and finalization.
Naturally, builders are able to deploy and test their bio-auth enabled Dapps on the Humanode testnet. The Humanode Hackathon is a great chance to work with both the chain and the biometric authorization service and gain rewards for your efforts!
🔺To check how the network runs🔺
If you have any questions reach the Humanode team on:
▲ Telegram Chat ▲
▲Troubleshooting channel on Discord ▲
Development
Humanode Dev Updates 29
The team is moving towards the launch of the Humanode mainnet, continuously implementing and improving the network before the launch.
Here are bi-weekly dev updates about what they’ve been working on:
- 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.
- 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
- Substrate
🔺Improved parsing performance in non-macro mode
🔺Exposed a size_hint() for TokenStream’s iterator
- Humanode WebApp
🔺TestScan for FaceTec (Dev tool for collecting face scan data)
Partnerships
Humanode partners with INK Finance
Humanode 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 integration of Humanode’s crypto biometrics with Ink Finance protocol will ensure:
- The most strict governance integrity assures a role-critical management structure.
- Sybil resistance for any DAO in regulatory sensitive applications by adopting rigorously governed models powered by biometric technology.
- The ability to provide a biometric sign-in option for members of DAOs running on INK facilities. With such a system combining security biometrics & liveness detection, you can be absolutely sure it is you, and only you, participating in your DAO’s business.
- A clean web3 identity: Humanode is seamlessly woven into web3, so there is no need to create or link any third-party accounts such as Google or Facebook into INK’s platform.
- Anonymous as a DAO User: No personal or identifiable information is shared.
Commenting on the partnership, the Founder of Humanode, Dato Kavazi, said:
“Sovereignty of biometric data is a crucial part of any web 3 DAO that wants to be properly distributed. It’s an honor to provide the Ink Finance ecosystems with privacy and decentralization of biometric search & matching and liveness detection to ensure the 1-human-1-vote prerogative.”
With DAOs proving to be an efficient way of managing financial operations transparently and securely, Ink Finance continues to enable more and more communities and organizations to take a leap by setting up their DAOs and tapping into DeFi liquidity. The partnership with Humanode will help Ink Finance to make the DAO ecosystem secure, transparent, and Sybil resistant.
CEO/Founder of Ink Finance Tony Tang said:
“Finance is built on credit, and credit is competence. Any ecosystem looking to drive its growth via financialization must first establish and demonstrate its governance competence. By adopting Humanode’s technology, Ink Finance can put to rest the concern regarding integrity and ecosystem health.”
While this partnership will help Ink Finance to build Sybil resistance in DAOs and eliminate any attacks whatsoever in the future, it also opens up new doors of opportunities for Humanode. We are committed to helping web3 companies operating in different domains build Sybil resistance.
Read to know How Humanode’s сrypto-biometrics will augment the INK Finance network:
MISC
- Find out why 3D liveness detection makes biometric authentication accurate! FaceTec’s VP operations, Jay Meier, explained how FaceTecInc ensure secure and accurate verification:
- How badly blockchain protocols’ governance is broken? Director of Republic Crypto Alex Ye, broke down the problems at the Humanode Conference 2022 and talked about How can we solve these problems.
- Glossary — List of Humanode terms: InFath or OutFath? Homomorphic encryption? Liveness detection? If those sound confusing to you, don’t worry. The Humanode team made a list of all these terms for easy reference.
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