Humanode: Mainnet hit 350+ validators, The third wave of mainnet rewards has been distributed, Discord initial implementation finalized, The Humanode poetry contest winners announced, and more!

December 29th 2022

Biweekly update vol.39, 14th December — 29th December

TL;DR

Dear community, welcome to the last 2022 edition of Humanode biweekly — Paradigm’s in-house project! A lot has happened since the last report, spend a few moments with us for our quick recap.
The Humanode mainnet is up and running. It’s been a month since the team launched the 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. These weeks, the mainnet has hit more than 350 validators (358 at the time of writing) and the numbers keep increasing. It is always a pleasure to see the network grows!
The good news is, the third wave of mainnet rewards has been distributed. Check your balances!
The current Humanode’s development progress was minutely shared in the regular update. As for the network development, the team changed the default period for era at create_transaction at runtime, and added Alice bootnode to patch forked spec. Also, they implemented an initial HTTP server and manual validator compensation.
Moreover, The Humanode team has been working on integrations with Discord. During these weeks, they finalized the initial implementation, added Redis session store, docker support, protobuf structure, and allowed server listen address customization.
And last but not least, the Humanode Poetry Contest under the theme: “Biometric Evolution” has ended. Thanks to everyone who participated. Winners have been announced! Check the list in this report below.
Here are all the major updates. Merry Christmas and happy holidays! See you in 2023!🎅🎄

Humanode Mainnet

Humanode Mainnet is here

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.

Token claim: https://token-claims.mainnet.stages.humanode.io/
Launcher: https://launcher.humanode.io
Guides (Validator and Token claim): https://gitbook.humanode.io/mainnet-guide/
In-depth docs: https://gitbook.humanode.io/docs/
Airdrop article: https://blog.humanode.io/sybil-resistant-retroactive-airdrop/

Overall deployment

• Humanode’s Sybil defense is crypto-biometric based, meaning that there is no PoW or PoS. No changes have been made for the mainnet so Humanode is the first network ever to deploy a consensus safeguarded purely by Proof-of-Uniqueness and Proof-of-Existence of human beings.

• By design all human nodes are equal in terms of validation power.

• Besides the mainnet the team is also going to launch a canary network, a testnet for the mainnet, and a testnet for the canary network to give tools to build some really creative stuff.

• As on Ramiel and Gaghiel consensus mechanism that is utilized is Grandpa + Babe with the hard consistency threshold at 66% + 1, or more specifically a BFT formula of n = 5f + 1, where n — all human nodes and f — malicious nodes.

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The team noticed that some users are facing issues in claiming airdrop tokens.

So far, they found out that some users haven’t mapped their addresses while others were facing issues with the mapper, and they contacted the team to resolve it. Currently, the team is working on solving this issue, and rest assured that anyone who participated in the testnet before August 16th and mapped addresses can claim the tokens.

So if you cannot claim the token, please fill in this Google Form with all the details.

Humanode Testnet

Testnet 4 ‘Gaghiel’

Testnet 4 “Gaghiel’’ is focusing on token claims, vesting, and unlocking systems that the team uses to distribute tokens at TGE. Gaghiel is open to everyone. If you’d like to run testnet 4, this is specially prepared for you: https://link.humanode.io/testnet4

Click here to read the details about Gaghiel.

🔺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 37

Here are the bi-weekly updates on the Humanode network.

Humanode Network

🔺Changed default period for era at create_transaction at runtime

🔺Added Alice bootnode to patch forked spec

Discord Integration

🔺Finalized Initial implementation

🔺Added Redis session store

🔺Allowed server listen address customization

🔺Added docker support

🔺Added protobuf structure

Substrate

🔺Fixed casting usize to u8 at pallet::error macro

🔺Prepared a patch to fix clippy::cast-possible-truncation.

Others

🔺Payments SVC

🔺Implemented initial HTTP server

🔺Implemented manual validator compensation

Roadmap

To make sure that the Humanode path is aligned with the vision the team released a roadmap to highlight the milestones after the mainnet.

Check it out here.

MISC

Human nodes, got 10 seconds? Please help the team complete the survey by clicking the link here.
The Humanode Poetry Contest under the theme: “Biometric Evolution” has just ended. Thank you for the submissions. The winners are:

MLHiggins95

Lordazekage

Jago

PLUGMAN

GeoXX3D

Winners can connect with Fiona on Discord for details about the prize collection.