If you are an admin of a crypto or gaming community, here's a playbook for you to identify and squash bots and spammers: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2018379867226837270

The next Humanode community call is scheduled for Saturday, 7th February at 13:00 UTC.

This time we’ll be looking at Humanode Charter: Chambers and Institutional Structure.

We’ll go through how Chambers are supposed to work, what kind of structure makes sense for Vortex, and hear what the community thinks feels right and what needs more thought.

If you’ve been following Vortex or have thoughts on how Chambers should work, join the call and share your take: Humanode Discord Radio

If you want some context before joining, you can read the recap from the last call here: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2018330017508237733

Final reminder for the Humanode Music Contest.

Submissions close this Friday, February 6th.

If you’ve been sitting on a song, half-finished idea, or “I’ll do it tomorrow” draft, this is that tomorrow.

Post your Humanode-themed track and drop the link in ⁠🎤-humanodes-got-talent on Discord before Feb 6th.

First round of voting happens on February 7th with the Humanode Core judges.
Final community voting starts on February 9th.

Decentralization is often treated as an intuitive property: more nodes, more validators, more participants. In practice, however, most systems lack a precise way to measure:

Who is actually participating, and how independent are they?

Proof-of-Biometric-Uniqueness (PoBU) treats decentralization as a system property that can be measured. Not at the level of nodes or keys, but at the level of real humans.

How, you ask? Read here: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2019098536957431935

The Humanode Music Contest closes today at 23:59 UTC.

If you have a song ready, or almost ready, you still have time.
Post your Humanode-themed track and drop the link in ⁠🎤-humanodes-got-talent on Discord before the clock runs out.

MEGA BUDDIES WL on MegaETH is human-only

Humanode x Mega Buddies: 3 guaranteed + 15 FCFS spots (mint Feb 9).

One human = one WL.

⏳ ~20h left - the fastest have more chances

Verify privately + drop your wallet/contact: https://tally.so/r/kdEqPj

More about Mega Buddies https://megabuddies.fun/

Vortex Dev Log 5 is out. This one tightens the edges.

Failure paths are now explicit. Proposals that miss quorum or vote windows actually end. Feeds reflect why things failed. Lists stay honest about state.

It also brings CM surfaces to life. You can now see contribution totals, breakdowns, and history across profiles, governance, and chambers. Plus a first pass on feeds, activity, and profiles that feels more grounded.

If you’ve been following along, the latest update is here: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2019830244132417817?s=20

Humanode Community Call starts in 30 minutes in Discord - Radio channel.

We will discuss and show how Vortex will function, with the latest updates to the app we will use for governance.

🚨 Emergency rotation of Biomapper CVM. If you are a Biostaker user, biomap again to continue getting rewards.

Partners and integrators - you don't need to take any actions but notify your community about the new Biomapper server generation.

All other Humanode Core developed infra and services are unaffected.

if you weren't able to join the 3rd Community call last Saturday, here's a recap on what we talked about: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2020844492287578332?s=20

Humanode Biomapper C2 is now live on MegaETH mainnet.

This is for teams building on MegaETH who want “one human = one wallet” without turning their dApp into a KYC desk.

Congrats to the MegaETH team on mainnet day. Glad to be part of what ships on top of it.

Details: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2020931179923505207?s=20

Thank you all for your participation in the very first Humanode Music Contest!

Although many of the songs were purely AI-generated, we also had real maestros write and perform for the contest! Even the Humanode Core team had a blast writing lyrics and trying to awaken their musical talents.

Naturally, it was not only the awakening of the creativity as an individual and as a community that was fun, seeing how the current models of AIs see the message of Humanode as they put it to song was also a learning experience.

Once again, thanks for the fun!

And now, the time has come to vote on the winners!

As many of you had previously mentioned, going through all of the entries to vote was way too time-consuming for the AI video contest (3min x 40 entries + another 30 min for the final round + time clicking and loading = nearly 3 hours of your life that could have been used for better things…), this time the Core team has selected our 13 favorite tunes out of all the entries (minus the ones done by the team members). The community is to vote on the 13 songs to select your favorite. (Yes, we originally said 10, but all of them were so good, we added three more to avoid fistfights. lol)

Vote once for each group that is posted.

Now, here is the twist this time. The top 3 songs will all receive the Gold prize of $100 (worth of HMND). The 4th to 6th place will receive the Silver prize of $50 (worth of HMND). If there are ties, a second round of voting will happen to “sort things out”.

Other songs have a chance of winning a “special mention” prize for excellence, but you do not need to be in the Top13 for a chance of a “special mention” prize.

Imagine a full “Humanode Album”. Not all songs make it on the final product, but some songs are selected to bring flavor or balance to the album. Thus, the Core team will be making these selections to bring light to some of the songs that were unfortunately not able to win Silver or Gold. These songs will be announced after the voting is over.

One note: all participants will be able to vote in the Humanode Discord Sybil-resistant channel # sr-polls . However, in order to keep things fair, if you were not a participant in the contest (as in if you did not submit a song), and you joined the server after the contest began, your vote will not count for this specific contest. Thank you for your understanding.

The voting round will last 72 hours. Now, go forth and vote!

In the last piece, we looked at how PoBU approaches decentralization as something you can measure using public chain data: validator activity, churn, and block-author concentration.

That naturally raises the next question: what does PoBU treat as “eligibility” in the first place?

Eligible for what? And how does the chain know?

Read it here: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2021512514048331961

Real markets need real people. Eidōlon Clusters makes that happen.

Verified squads each epoch + a bonus for working together, not farming.

Good to see Humanode's verified human used as the check.

If you’re a human node, go grab a spot: https://x.com/episteme_sci/status/2021557162091163649?s=20

dTelecom just added BotBasher to their Discord to keep participation human and rewards honest.

They’re building production-grade real-time comms. Voice. Video. Streaming. AI interactions. The kind of infra where “community numbers” are useless if half of them are bots.

And with Phase 2 of their $2.6M airdrop live, Sybil resistance isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the whole game. If rewards are getting distributed, you want them landing with real users, not multi-account grinders.

That’s what BotBasher adds:
1 human = 1 account.
No KYC. No IDs. No personal data stored. You just prove you’re a unique human, not who you are.

We’re excited to work with dTelecom. And yeah, we’ll be using dMeetApp internally too. Secure, high-quality comms matter when you’re shipping.

Join the Discord, get verified, grab the Real Human role:
https://discord.com/invite/dtelecom

How to get a verified role: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF7zDRvLZ74

Humanode Fireside with Tobias Bauer is now live! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0sMHeAnp20

Come to chat and leave some comments!

Vortex Dev Sim Log 6 is out, and yeah, this one is a major update.

We finally have Proposal Engine v1 in place, so proposal creation stops feeling “loose” and starts feeling predictable, with proper guardrails on the server side and a clean boundary between project proposals and system-executable changes. At the same time, the governing threshold model is now real and era-based, so “active governor” isn’t a vague label anymore, it’s derived from your actual voting opportunities and it kicks in deterministically from era E to E+1. And factions v1 is here too, as something that exists in the sim.

Internal deployment is ready, and we’re on the finish line for the public release.

Full dev log: https://x.com/humanode_io/status/2022261514284208221?s=20