Humanode: SubQuery integration, The Beta version of the Humanode Explorer is here, Humanode reaches 2M blocks, The fee system is updated, Community voted for validators rewards slashing, MEV as a public good, Humanode sticker сontest is now live, Photography contest winners announced, AMAs, Humanode in Simple Terms video series returns, and more!

April 19th 2023

Biweekly update vol.47, 5th March — 19th April

TL;DR

Human nodes and friends! Over the past two weeks, the team has been working tirelessly, and a lot of exciting news appeared, so let’s dive in and explore what’s been happening in the world of Humanode!
Humanode has partnered with SubQuery. With SubQuery’s decentralized data indexing infrastructure, developers can easily access on-chain data for the apps they want to build on Humanode. With this partnership, Humanode will benefit from SubQuery’s wide range of features, including the open-source SDK, simple startup guides, detailed developer documentation, committed developer help, and other benefits that developers appreciate in the SubQuery ecosystem.
The great news is, the Beta Version of the Humanode Explorer has been released. It is based on the ParaScan open-source repository and uses SubQuery to pull the data from the Humanode blockchain. As it is still an early beta version, its main functionality is limited to showing blocks, and transfers from and to your humanode address. Other functions here are at a very rudimentary stage but fret not. Fully functional versions with all the bells and whistles that you will ever need on an explorer (and with pretty graphics and all) are scheduled for release in the very near future.
Last week, the team announced that the Humanode blockchain network has officially reached 2 million blocks. This a massive milestone for the Humanode community and a testament to the hard work and dedication of the developers, validators, and supporters.
Moreover, the team has revamped the fee structure for improved transparency & fairness. Dive in to learn about the changes & how they benefit the human nodes and users alike in the blog post.
The first batch of 1 person = 1 vote community polls took place in the Humanode Discord. The poll titled ‘Should we increase the number of validators getting the reward?’ ended with 55/45 results in favor of increasing the number of human nodes getting the rewards. The latest community poll ‘Do we want to introduce the mechanism of Humanode validator reward slashing?’ ended with 81/19 results in favor of canceling the reward distribution to those who missed too many epochs. The team will be deciding the slashing period and the exact number of epochs the validator needs to get the rewards in the next vote later this week. Get a Verified Human role and participate in the next vote!
Lately, MEV exploits on Ethereum have become a hot topic, with everyone discussing and searching for ways to address the issue. Dive into a freshly-published captivating quick editorial on how MEV is turned into a public good in Sybil-resistant blockchains.
Moreover, Bitmart hosted two AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) sessions with the co-founders of Humanode. They answered community questions in Twitter Spaces. In case you missed it, check out the recordings!
Humanode in Simple Terms video series returns with a bang. Tune in to the newest episode where Shannon Higgins, Humanode Media Lead, demystifies the powerful Bot Basher Technology in layman’s terms.
Also, The team announces the winners of the first-ever Humanode photography contest. Check them out. Currently, the Humanode sticker сontest is ongoing. Participate and get a chance to win $50 worth of HMND. Let’s get creative and showcase the essence of the Humanode community together!
Keep in mind that HMND, the native token of Humanode, is now available for trading on KuCoin and Bitmart. The availability of HMND on these exchanges will provide greater liquidity and accessibility to HMND tokens, enabling more people to participate in the Humanode mission to promote a 1 human = 1 node = 1 vote ethos.
That’s all for today. Keep following us to stay updated on the latest developments and breakthroughs from the Humanode team. Together, let’s build a better world for all!

Development

Humanode Dev Updates

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

i. Major updates

🔺Bot Basher new beta version released

🔺Officially released the Humanode Block Explorer web version

🔺Partnered with SubQuery — a Web 3 data indexing platform

ii. Humanode

🔺Implemented Simpler ethereum address construction at eip712 test utils

🔺Rewrote a part of the default EVM implementation to deal with mishandled balances

🔺Bumped runtime spec version to 105

🔺Bumped serde from 1.0.159 to 1.0.160

🔺Bumped uuid from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1

🔺Corrected the dev genesis for EVM accounts

🔺Generalized the lookup at the frame_system::offchain::CreateSignedTransaction impl

🔺Bumped @polkadot/api-cli from 0.53.8 to 0.53.10

🔺Bumped hex-literal from 0.3.4 to 0.4.1

🔺Bumped qr2term from 0.2.3 to 0.3.1

🔺Bumped secp256k1 from 0.24.3 to 0.27.0

🔺Updated to Vergen 8

🔺Updated the dependencies

🔺Bumped futures from 0.3.25 to 0.3.27

🔺Bumped num_enum from 0.5.7 to 0.6.0

🔺Refactored CI

🔺Bumped mockall from 0.11.3 to 0.11.4

🔺Bumped clap from 4.1.1 to 4.1.11

🔺Bumped tokio from 1.26.0 to 1.27.0

🔺Bumped @polkadot/api-cli from 0.53.7 to 0.53.8

Listing

HMND trading on KuCoin and Bitmart

Two weeks ago, HMND has been listed on KuCoin and BitMart.

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
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

Beta testers can verify themselves as unique living human beings, and enter the Sybil-resistant channels on the Humanode Discord server. Don’t worry about not being sure about the Bot Basher yet, all the data from the test will be wiped clean once the test is concluded, so everybody is welcome to participate in this beta test!

🔺If you are wondering about how to participate in the test, there is a step-by-step guide here at the following link.

🔺Humanode Bot Basher — The human way to get rid of bots: Here’s a detailed article to find out all about Humanode Bot Basher.

🔺Why Humanode Bot Basher? Read about the benefits of Bot Basher and why it is important.

🔺Discord BotBasher website is live: Check out how to add Humanode Sybil-resistance tech to your Discord server and enable new bot-free community mechanics like whitelisting and voting in “verified human” only channels.

🔺Humanode in Simple Terms video series returns with a bang: Tune in to the newest episode where Shannon Higgins, Humanode Media Lead, demystifies the powerful Bot Basher Technology in layman’s terms.

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:

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/

🔺 The Beta Version of the Humanode Explorer has been released

Per request from many community members, the Humanode Dev team released the beta version of the Humanode Explorer. The Beta Humanode Explorer is based on the ParaScan open-source repository and uses SubQuery to pull the data from the Humanode blockchain. As it is still an early beta version, its main functionality is limited to showing blocks, and transfers from and to your humanode address. Other functions here are at a very rudimentary stage but fret not. Fully functional versions with all the bells and whistles that you will ever need on an explorer (and with pretty graphics and all) are scheduled for release in the very near future. Check out the details here.

🔺Humanode reached 2 million blocks

Last week, the team announced that the Humanode blockchain network has officially reached 2 million blocks.

This is another milestone for the Humanode community and a testament to the hard work and dedication of the developers, validators, and supporters. The Humanode network with a unique security mechanism and equal validators remained up and running for the whole time without any interruptions with 2 million blocks and counting.

🔺Fee system is updated

Moreover, the team has revamped the fee structure for improved transparency & fairness. Dive in to learn about the changes & how they benefit the human nodes and users alike in the blog post.

🔺Validator Ranking

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.

Partnerships

Humanode has partnered with SubQuery

SubQuery offers decentralized data indexing infrastructure for developers creating apps on various layer-1 blockchains like Ethereum, the Cosmos ecosystem, Polkadot, Algorand, Avalanche, and now Humanode. Being a fast and flexible open data indexer, it assists developers in building APIs quickly and easily index chains with the help of dictionaries (pre-calculated indices).

With this partnership, Humanode will benefit from SubQuery’s wide range of features, including the open-source SDK, simple startup guides, detailed developer documentation, committed developer help, and other benefits that developers appreciate in the SubQuery ecosystem.

As a real-world example, the Humanode tech team has effectively utilized SubQuery to build the Humanode Explorer.

This tool is based on the ParaScan open-source repository and leverages SubQuery’s robust data indexing capabilities to showcase transactions involving humanode accounts, blocks’ data, and a wealth of additional information from the Humanode blockchain. You can check how it works here: https://beta.explorer.humanode.io/

This collaboration unlocks numerous opportunities for developers to harness Humanode’s on-chain data. For instance, they can easily build custom APIs to get on-chain data (transfers, bioauthentication events, online validator nodes, etc.) for the apps they want to build. Exchanges can easily retrieve chain data, and users can develop websites, Telegram or Discord bots that send notifications when bioauthentication is about to expire or build a ranking of human nodes (validators).

Check out more details here.

Publications

MEV as a public good

Lately, MEV exploits on Ethereum has become a hot topic, with everyone discussing and searching for ways to address the issue. Dive into this captivating quick editorial on how MEV is turned into a public good in Sybil-resistant blockchains:

Awareness & Events

AMA session with BitMart with the co-founder of Humanode Victor.
AMA session with BitMart: Humanode co-founder Dato answered community questions on April 14th.

1 person = 1 vote community polls

[Community Signaling 4]

1 person = 1 vote community poll on the increase of the number of human nodes getting rewards (“Should we increase the number of validators getting the reward?”) ended with 55/45 result in favor of increasing the number of human nodes getting the rewards.

107 humans participated, and the community was divided. In Humanode WP and DAO, Vortex, the team outlined that, for many reasons, the 66% threshold gives more confidence, and further discussion is required if the poll did not reach a 66% majority.

Hence, the team decided to hold this poll later. The fee system upgrade just happened last week, let’s see how it can increase the total network fees.

Get a Verified Human role today and participate in the next vote!

[Community Signaling 5]

1 person = 1 vote community poll “Do we want to introduce the mechanism of Humanode validator reward slashing?” ended with 81/19 result in favor of canceling the reward distribution to those who missed too many epochs.

The team will be deciding the slashing period and the exact number of epochs the validator needs to get the rewards in the next vote later this week. All 1p1v polls happen in Sybil-resistant channels which you can access after getting a verified human role in linked roles.

Get a Verified Human role to participate by clicking on a server name in the “linked roles” tab.

Contests

Humanode sticker сontest is now live

Participate in the Contest and get a chance to win $50 worth of HMND. Let’s get creative and showcase the essence of the Humanode community together! Learn more about the rules for submission here.

Humanode photography contest winners announced

The team announces the winners of the first-ever Humanode Photography Contest.

They launched this contest to showcase the mad photography skills and creativity of the Humanode community. After three rounds of voting in our Sybil-resistant channel, they have finally got the winners. Check them out.

Gold Prize: Haruna Elijah

Silver Prize: Shannon Higgins

Bronze Prize 1: Iacob Ovidiu

Bronze Prize 2: Thins | Tyke Inu

Bronze Prize 3: crptcpchk

MISC

Airdrop Issue Resolved & Tokens Distributed

Thank you for your patience. The team has successfully processed the airdrop issues form and have now distributed tokens to 105 testnet validators. A few months ago we asked you to fill out a form. If you submitted the form but haven’t received your tokens, please note the following:

1- You can claim your tokens here: https://token-claims.mainnet.stages.humanode.io/

You will need to claim with the correct Ethereum address. (In case you forget, you can reach out to Princess Fiona on Discord to know the correct address).

2- If you launched a node but did not become a validator, the substrate addresses you provided might not have had any block participation in any of the testnets. In this case, you won’t receive any tokens.

🔓For those with locked tokens on your main Humanode address, remember to claim your new tokens to a different Humanode address.