Humanode: Submissions for participation in private EVM compatible testnet V5 ‘Israfel’ are open, Humanode EVM internal testing is ongoing, BotBasher server reboot, Humanode’s Zealy journey continues, Exploring verifiable confidential computing Part 2, The ‘I am Human!’ graffiti campaign winner announced, and more!
Biweekly update vol.53, 28th June — 12th July
TL;DR
Human nodes and friends! The past two weeks have been filled with great progress and achievements for Humanode across multiple fronts. We are here to unveil some of the most exciting news and updates, and we can’t wait to share them with you!
First and foremost, the internal testing of the Humanode EVM is currently ongoing, and it will not be long before it will be taken a step further to open the first round of private testing. Once the team concludes this round of internal testing, they will be opening the doors to the private testnet, so if you would like to be one of the first to test Humanode EVM, do not hesitate to sign up here. For more info check out this blog post.
It is always a pleasure to follow the statistics. Over these weeks, BotBasher hit 221K users. Integrate BotBasher into your Discord server, the ‘bouncer’ for your digital ‘pub’! Don’t let Sybil attackers spoil your fun. Already integrated by 140+ servers, it is gearing up to safeguard more Discord communities!
Worth noting, the team has updated BotBasher & reset biometric servers requiring users to reverify accounts. Discord admins, your role in this transition is crucial. Please follow this guide for instructions. All users, it’s time to re-verify & regain your status. For detailed info, follow this link.
Join Humanode’s Zealy Questboard for the chance to earn rewards. Anyone can join the quests, whether you are a new community member or a long-time participant. Solve quests, find secret codes, get involved in the Humanode community, and learn about Humanode and BotBasher.
Explore how Humanode is enhancing biometric data security with Verifiable Confidential Computing in the team’s latest article series. Find insights into the Humanode approach in Part I. Freshly published Part 2 covers the reasons, advantages, and limitations of this technology.
Furthermore, the “I am Human!” graffiti campaign winner has been announced. The community has spoken through the Sybil-resistant One Human = One Vote voting utilizing the Humanode BotBasher. For the graffiti displayed in public, the winning tag that received the most votes is Entry #1 by FizzFlame#2404. This tag stood out for its compelling content, excellent visibility, artistic beauty, location, and overall quality. Congratulations to the winner! For all graffiti contest participants, the POAP NFTs are available to be claimed!
That’s a wrap. Stay tuned for more updates and let’s embark on this adventure together!
Development
Humanode Dev Updates
i. Major updates
🔺Humanode EVM Internal Testing is ongoing. So far the team has tested multiple functionalities including:
- Bioauth
- Faucet
- Swap logic in both way
- Metamask usage and smart contract deployment
🔺BotBasher Updated and Biometric servers reset for AI upgrades + CVM improvements
ii. Humanode web app
🔺Switch to the new facetec-sdk packaging
iii. Mainnet landing
🔺 Updated events section
iv. Humanode network
🔺Add swap_keep_alive logic into pallet_currency_swap
🔺Fix naming for balance converter at bridge-pot-currency-swap
🔺Fix std usage at primitives-currency-swap-proxy
🔺Make currency swap return the original imbalance on failure
🔺Automatic currency-swap proxy primitives
🔺Bridge pot currency swap implementation
v. Discord (aka BotBasher) integration
🔺Customized Discord meta data key
Humanode Bot Basher
BotBasher for Discord
Testers can verify themselves as unique living human beings, and enter the Sybil-resistant channels on the Humanode Discord server.
BotBasher for Discord is an application that has been created utilizing the Humanode private biometric verification technology, allowing Discord users to verify that their account is owned by a unique living human being, and Discord servers to create Sybil-resistant channels, by limiting specified channels to verified human beings only. As the BotBasher for Discord works alongside other popular Discord applications, the servers will be able to provide their users with Sybil-resistant voting (1 user, 1 vote), Sybil-resistant whitelisting, Sybil-resistant airdrops, NFT mints, and more!
As the technology behind the application is the Humanode crypto-biometric technology, the users are able to conduct private and secure uniqueness and liveness checks over anonymized data, without revealing any private information or fear of having their biometric data hacked.
As a note of caution, one user is only able to create one bio-authentication, meaning that the user can only tie one account to their physical identity, limiting their access to the BotBasher-enabled Sybil-resistant channels (or servers) to that verified account.
Once an account has been bio-authenticated and receives the role of a Verified Human, they will be able to utilize that verification for all servers that are BotBasher enabled.
🔺BotBasher is now Discord verified
🚨Important update for Discord server admins using BotBasher
The team has updated BotBasher & reset Biometric Servers requiring users to reverify accounts. As an admin, your role in this transition is crucial. Please follow this guide for instructions:
🚨 Important news for all BotBasher users
The team has updated BotBasher and initiated the biometrics servers reset for upgrades. All users, it’s time to re-verify & regain your ‘Verified’ status.
For detailed info, follow this link.
🔺Understanding BotBasher’s Biometric Privacy and Security Approach
Curious about how BotBasher protects your biometric data? Dive into Humanode’s latest blog post to explore the advanced security measures they implemented.
In this article, the team provides an in-depth look at how BotBasher processes and protects user data through Confidential Computing technology. They discuss the various stages of Humanode’s biometric verification process, from data collection to encryption and storage, and explore how BotBasher prioritizes user privacy and security at every step.
🔺Humanode in Simple Terms video series: Tune in to the episode where Shannon Higgins, Humanode Media Lead, demystifies the powerful Bot Basher Technology in layman’s terms.
Humanode Testnet
The internal testing of the EVM Testnet is currently ongoing, and it will not be long before it will be taken a step further to open the first round of private testing.
Once the team concludes this round of internal testing, they will be opening the doors to the private testnet, so if you would like to be one of the first to test Humanode EVM, do not hesitate to sign up here.
Currently, the testing has introduced:
- A completely independent EVM accounts system in a separate domain from the native accounts including own balance domain.
- Currently, it is not possible to do general EVM-related operations from native accounts like `call`, `create` and `withdraw`. However, swap operations are allowed to transfer some tokens from native balances to EVM balances.
- `EVM tokens to native` operation is possible as well via currency swap precompile.
- As a result, the team has tested all tokens-related operations in different domains, proper fee calculation and distribution to particular pot accounts, valid total issuance, swap call and swap precompile.
- Additionally, basic EVM-related operations have been tested as well like smart contracts deployment and tokens transfers, utilizing famous tools like Metamask wallet and Remix IDE.
For more info check out this blog post.
Humanode Mainnet
Beginning as a dream in 2017, put into action in 2020, and 4 public testnets with over 10,000 unique participants starting in 2021, Humanode has launched the first crypto-biometric blockchain network where one human = one node = one vote that brings Sybil resistance and innovative governance models to the crypto industry using biometric technology.
Be sure to claim tokens as you need some to deploy the node:
- Launcher: https://launcher.humanode.io
- Guides (Validator and Token claim): https://gitbook.humanode.io/mainnet-guide/
- In-depth docs: https://gitbook.humanode.io/docs/
🔺 Humanode explorer by Subscan available
The Humanode team announced the new and spiffy Humanode explorer developed by Subscan. Visit https://humanode.subscan.io/ to navigate through the sea of blocks and learn about what is happening on the Humanode blockchain.
🔺 Humanode Explorer by Subscan — How does it work
Seeing a lot of questions and speculations on who has made it to the list of top validators, how many sessions (epochs) they were part of, and how much reward they got, the Humanode team has created a link where everyone can see the latest data and information regarding the performance of human nodes.
Save this link to see the updated rankings.
Listing
HMND is listed on KuCoin and Bitmart, BingX, SimpleSwap, and Lunar Crush.
In the meantime, here are a few reminders to all:
- HMND cannot be traded on any DEX at the moment.
- The only places you can buy HMND at this moment are KuCoin and BitMart, SimpleSwap, BingX, and Lunar Crush.
- ALWAYS check the official announcements.
The links to the trading pages:
🔺KuCoin: https://link.humanode.io/trade/kucoin
🔺BitMart: https://link.humanode.io/trade/bitmart
🔺SimpleSwap: https://simpleswap.io/coins/humanode
🔺Lunar Crush: https://lunarcrush.com/coins/hmnd/humanode
🔺BingX: https://support.bingx.com/hc/en-001/articles/17928663093017-BingX-Spot-Adds-Humanode-HMND-Trading-Pair
Zealy
Humanode first ever Sybil-resistant Quests on Zealy
Join Humanode’s Zealy Questboard for the chance to earn rewards. Anyone can join the quests, whether you are a new community member or a long-time participant.
Solve quests, find secret codes, get involved in the Humanode community, and learn about Humanode and BotBasher.
📝 How to?
1. Visit Humanode’s Zealy Questboard, and log in to Zealy using your Discord account.
2. Complete the quests to unlock experience points (XP).
The more experience points you gain, the higher your level goes on the Zealy Questboard. The higher your level on Zealy, the more roles you can acquire, and the greater your chances of qualifying to share the prize. Zealy keeps track of the amount of XP you earn.
Here’s the link >> https://link.humanode.io/zealy <<
Wondering how the team will decide the winners and dish out $HMND rewards? Here’s a breakdown of the winning determination process:
🏆 Top 10 Sprinters: When a sprint ends, they will give a shoutout to the top 10 players who scored the most experience points (XP).
🏆 Monthly Retroactive Rewards: At the end of each month the team will retroactively reward the top 20 XP gainers on the Zealy Questboard. Concistency is key! The first monthly snapshot will take place on June 19th!
Whether you aim to secure a top spot in the sprint rankings or strive for monthly recognition, every quest you finish and every XP you earn brings you closer to the prize. The determination of winners will be based solely on the XP earned. So, focus on completing quests, engaging with the community, and expanding your knowledge to maximize your chances of securing a top position.
Important things to consider:
- The team will be rebooting XP every 3 months so that everyone gets a fair chance to win.
- You can only win 1 spot on each sprint and similarly will be eligible to win 1 spot on a monthly retroactive reward list.
- The team will be adding more quests progressively.
Publications
Verifiable confidential computing for processing biometrics — Part I
Explore how Humanode is enhancing biometric data security with Verifiable Confidential Computing in the team’s latest article series.
Find insights into the Humanode approach in Part I.
Part 2 covers the reasons, advantages, and limitations of this technology.
Discover how it helps in secure and transparent data processing:
Contests
The “I am Human!” graffiti campaign winner announced
The die has been cast, and the votes are in! Once again, the community has spoken through the Sybil-Resistant One Human = One Vote voting utilizing the Humanode BotBasher!
For the graffiti displayed in public, the winning tag that received the most votes is Entry #1 by FizzFlame#2404. This tag stood out for its compelling content, excellent visibility, artistic beauty, location, and overall quality. Congratulations to the winner!
It is important to highlight that the voting process was Sybil-resistant, ensuring that each vote came from a unique individual. Behind every vote cast, there was a person with the intention of supporting their favorite entry. This approach aimed to maintain fairness and authenticity throughout the voting process, allowing the true merits of each submission to be recognized.
All participants of “I am Human!” graffiti contest also received a limited edition “I am human” POAP NFT.
The POAP NFTs of the unique “I Am Human” contest are available to be claimed!
- Winner to claim the unique POAP NFT here >> https://www.poap.delivery/iamhuman-winner
- Participants can claim their unique POAP NFT here >> https://www.poap.delivery/iamhuman
MISC
- Scam alert: there is a Humanode Hub named group with a different handle. Check humanode.io for links.
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