Humanode: EVM mainnet is officially live, BotBasher now protecting 200 Discord communities, AMA with SushiSwap, Join the Humanode Genesis NFT collection, Check out Israfel’s Zealy sprint quests winners, Sybil-resistant Wonder quests using BotBasher, Humanode Conference next week, and more!

August 23rd 2023

Biweekly update vol.56, 9th August — 23rd August

TL;DR

Humanode community members, the past fourteen days have been truly remarkable, highlighted by substantial progress and achievements. Today, we gather to unveil a number of important announcements and advancements.
First and foremost, the EVM compatibility is now live on the Humanode mainnet. This opens up a world of new possibilities for dApps, smart contracts, and much more. After extensive testing on the Humanode EVM Testnet “Israfel”, the team has incorporated feedback and made the necessary adjustments. With the success of the public testing phase, Humanode EVM is now ready for mainnet action. For the devs out there: the Humanode network now supports dApps and smart contracts developed in Solidity and other EVM-compatible languages. The seamless integration means you can now deploy your smart contracts directly onto the Humanode chain. Users, rejoice! Swap HMND for eHMND and transfer eHMND using popular EVM wallets, including MetaMask. Want to delve deeper? Check out the detailed blog post on this milestone launch and the potential it unlocks for the Humanode network.
Moreover, Humanode wants you to co-create The Humanode Genesis NFT Collection with them. Craft an NFT around the ‘Genesis’ theme and submit it on Humanode Discord. Top picks get minted into the exclusive Genesis Collection. The best Humanode NFT chosen by the community, and the most traded NFT in the initial two weeks will win their creators $500 worth of HMND. Dive into this article to discover how you can be part of this historic moment.
Also, the team is hosting a special “GM humans!” quest on Galxe! All questers are invited to claim their OAT as a symbol of their involvement in this milestone. To claim yours, join the quest now!
To celebrate the EVM launch, the Humanode team created a special sprint related to Israfel testnet on Zealy. To each person who jumped in took the challenge, and submitted the right Humanode address, you rock! You will each receive an allocation of HMND from the 20,000 prize pool. The rewards will be determined based on the XP earned by each participant during the sprint. They will be transferred to the Humanode wallet you provided.
The great news is, Humanode BotBasher, the cutting-edge biometric identity verification technology for Discord, has achieved a new milestone by successfully integrating into 200 Discord server communities! This achievement signifies a great advancement in the world of online security and identity verification.
On top of that, the team explored a Sybil-resistant approach using BotBasher with Wonderverse’s WonderBot. Dive in to see how genuine community participation can be promoted without the noise of malicious actors. They have prepared the first-ever Sybil-resistant quest to celebrate this integration. You can participate in the quests and earn rewards by navigating to the #community-quest channel on Humanode Discord.
Yesterday the team had a fruitful chat with SushiSwap on how Humanode can change DeFi and which innovations Sybil-resistance can bring.
Attention to everyone who has won the whitelist spot to mint .sei domains! SPACEID .sei name pre-registration will be live on August 23rd at 8 AM UTC and August 28th at 9 AM UTC for public registration. Get ready to secure your first .sei name on the Humanode partner’s network, Sei! Details are here.
Keep in mind, the HumanodeCon`23 will be held online from September 1st to September 2nd, for two days of panel discussions, special presentations, tutorials, guest speakers, and some fun in general! With Humanode EVM, some new breakthroughs concerning encryption and bio-authorization, and many new partnerships being built with various Web3 projects and communities, this is a conference that you will not want to miss!
And thus, we conclude our today’s report. Stay tuned!

Development

Humanode Dev Updates

i. Major updates

🔺Updated Humanode Network with EVM compatibility.

ii. Humanode network

🔺Removed unused pallet-base-fee and pallet-dynamic-fee deps

🔺Denied serde versions that ship precompiled binaries

🔺Added a gas estimate E2E test

🔺Bumped @types/node from 16.18.40 to 16.18.41

🔺Bumped @vitest/expect from 0.34.1 to 0.34.2

🔺Bumped vitest from 0.34.1 to 0.34.2

🔺Removed unused patches at root Cargo.toml

🔺Bumped runtime version to 108

🔺Bumped humanode-runtime to 107 spec_version

🔺Reverted “Proper initialization of the bridge pot account balances in genesis (#698)”

🔺Bumped ethers from 6.7.0 to 6.7.1

🔺Bumped @types/node from 16.18.39 to 16.18.40

🔺Fixed try-runtime feature usage at pallet-balanced-currency-swap-bridges-initializer

🔺Updated React to RUSTSEC-2022–0093

🔺Conducted End-to-end EVM fee test

🔺Integrated bridges initialization logic into humanode-runtime

iii. Mainnet landing

🔺Fixed typo in the BotBasher section

🔺Extended interact section about mainnet swap

iv. Discord integration landing

🔺Updated bio-verified session counter

Humanode EVM Testnet “Israfel”

EVM compatibility is now live on Humanode mainnet

This opens up a world of new possibilities for dApps, smart contracts, and much more.

After extensive testing on the Humanode EVM Testnet “Israfel”, the team has incorporated feedback and made the necessary adjustments. With the success of the public testing phase, Humanode EVM is now ready for mainnet action.

For the devs out there: the Humanode network now supports dApps and smart contracts developed in Solidity and other EVM-compatible languages. The seamless integration means you can now deploy your smart contracts directly onto the Humanode chain.

Users, rejoice! Swap HMND for eHMND and transfer eHMND using popular EVM wallets, including MetaMask.

Remember, post-update, Human nodes will need to update the launcher app and reauthorize to facilitate this network upgrade.

Want to delve deeper? Check out the detailed blog post on this milestone launch and the potential it unlocks for the Humanode network.

Also, the team is hosting a special “GM humans!” quest on Galxe! All questers are invited to claim their OAT as a symbol of their involvement in this milestone.

To claim yours, join the quest now!

This is just the beginning. More updates, events, and chances to shape HumanodeEVM are on the horizon.

The Humanode Genesis NFT Collection

The Humanode wants you to co-create The Humanode Genesis NFT Collection with them. Craft an NFT around the ‘Genesis’ theme and submit it on Humanode Discord. Top picks get minted into the exclusive Genesis Collection.

The best Humanode NFT chosen by the community, and the most traded NFT in the initial two weeks will win their creators $500 worth of HMND.

Dive into this article to discover how you can be part of this historic moment.

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.

🔺Understanding BotBasher’s Biometric Privacy and Security Approach

Curious about how BotBasher protects your biometric data? Dive into Humanode’s 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.

🔺 BotBasher now protecting 200 Discord server communities

Humanode BotBasher, the cutting-edge biometric identity verification technology for Discord, has achieved a new milestone by successfully integrating into 200 Discord server communities! Here are the largest 6 servers (see image).

Integrate BotBasher to your server: https://botbasher.humanode.io/

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

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

🔺Validator Ranking

Partnerships

Humanode x .sei Name Service quest on Galxe

Attention to everyone who has won the whitelist spot to mint .sei domains! SPACEID .sei Name pre-registration will be live on August 23rd at 8 AM UTC and August 28th at 9 AM UTC for Public Registration. Get ready to secure your first .sei name on the Humanode partner’s network, Sei!

Details are here.

Sybil-resistant Wonder Quests using BotBasher

The team explored a Sybil-resistant approach using BotBasher with Wonderverse’s WonderBot. Dive in to see how genuine community participation can be promoted without the noise of malicious actors.

Also, the team has prepared the first-ever Sybil-resistant quest to celebrate this integration. You can participate in the quests and earn rewards by navigating to the #community-quest channel on Humanode Discord.

Also, let’s like and share this integration announcement with the web3 community:

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 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. Consistency 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 is 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.

Special sprint quests related to Israfel on Zealy

Recently, the Humanode team has created a special sprint related to HumanodeEVM testnet on Zealy. To each person who jumped in took the challenge, and submitted the right Humanode address, you rock! You will each receive an allocation of HMND from the 20,000 prize pool. The rewards will be determined based on the XP earned by each participant during the sprint. They will be transferred to the Humanode wallet you provided.

Awareness & Events

Humanode x SushiSwap AMA: Sybil-resistant DeFi and quadratic LP staking

Yesterday the team had a fruitful chat with SushiSwap on how Humanode can change DeFi and which innovations Sybil-resistance can bring.

All participants can claim their special OAT badge on Galxe.

Humanode Conference 2023

The team announced the dates for the Humanode Conference 2023.

The HumanodeCon`23 will be held from September 1st to September 2nd, for two days of panel discussions, special presentations, tutorials, guest speakers, and some fun in general!

The conference will be held online (venue TBA).

With Humanode EVM, and some new breakthroughs concerning Homomorphic Encryption and Humanode bio-authorization, and many new partnerships being built with various Web3 projects and communities, this is a conference that you will not want to miss.

So remember to reserve Sept 1st and 2nd for the HumanodeCon`23! More information to follow.