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22 Sept, 13:43
Humanode Newsletter Vol. 123 is live!TL;DR 🌀 Vortex Needs You: bring a use case, proposal, or project into governance🧠 Specialization Chambers and Governance Tiers🎙 Conversations with Keyring Network and OpenServ🫀 The Body Returns to the Network: humans, agents, political standing🌐 A new update to humanode.io💸 Network fee changes are comingWe’ve spent a long time building the machinery. Now we want to see what people do with it.Read the full update: https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-newsletter-vol-123/Humanode Announcements
21 Sept, 16:13
Our main site got an update - check it out!-> humanode.io
Humanode Announcements
17 Sept, 17:48
Vortex's Governance TiersHumanode Announcements
15 Sept, 18:06
A new term for your governance vocabulary.
Humanode Announcements
14 Sept, 17:42
One person can operate a thousand agents. How much weight should that give them in a community?As agents act on our behalf, counting accounts tells us less about the people behind them. That matters when a network distributes votes, grants or free access. Yet counting humans raises another question: how much should a system need to know about you?In The Body Returns to the Network, Sasha Shilina explores where human uniqueness, privacy and political standing meet on an internet increasingly populated by machines.https://blog.humanode.io/the-body-returns-to-the-network/HumanodeThe Body Returns to the NetworkHuman uniqueness after the user by Sasha Shilina In early September, AI agents moved deeper into ordinary financial infrastructure. Aave opened an MCP server through which AI assistants can inspect positions, simulate changes and prepare unsigned transactions.…Humanode Announcements
12 Sept, 14:29
Sat down with Tim Hafner of @openservai and discussed many things you'll see in the full episode, but this one was particularly interesting finding they now implemented in their product.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gCv5Qn3MVQYouTubeLanguage models are bad at reading plain EnglishWe were joined by Tim Hafner, founder of OpenServ, on why an AI agent fails and how do they fix it. An agent doing the same job a thousand times gets a vague English prompt a thousand times. OpenServ compiles that prompt into code and a decision graph the…Humanode Announcements
10 Sept, 17:49
Philosophy behind Vortex- Humanode’s governance 👇Humanode Announcements
9 Sept, 16:26
Humanode Announcements
8 Sept, 17:47
DAO governance is becoming specialist work.Yesterday, Aave’s governance forum received recommendations covering interest rates and caps across several markets. Today, Lido contributors debated custody, liquidity KPIs, and continuous monitoring for a market-making mandate.Judging decisions like these requires knowledge that a token balance cannot show.Vortex’s design approaches this through Specialization Chambers. Governors demonstrate contribution in a field before voting on its specialized decisions, while system-wide questions go to the General Chamber.The article explains the idea through chocolate cake. It makes more sense than you might expect.https://blog.humanode.io/vortex-and-specialization-chambers/HumanodeVortex and Specialization ChambersWhen discussing governance in Vortex, there is a core principle that we must remember, aside from the principle that one person equals one node equals one vote, that is. It is the fundamental principle of Cognitocracy, and the fact that good governance comes…Humanode Announcements
7 Sept, 17:55
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Humanode Announcements pinned «Humanode began in 2020 with a team of five people. Over the years, we have spent time building the pieces: Human Nodes, Biomapper, BotBasher, and Vortex, including Formation for teams and the Court for accountability. Now that the system is in place, we would…»
4 Sept, 17:43
Humanode Announcements
4 Sept, 17:42
Humanode began in 2020 with a team of five people. Over the years, we have spent time building the pieces: Human Nodes, Biomapper, BotBasher, and Vortex, including Formation for teams and the Court for accountability.Now that the system is in place, we would like to invite you to help put these tools to use.Bring a use case for one-human-one-vote governance, a human-only community, or an app that needs Sybil resistance.If you have an idea, Formation can help you find people to build it with. If you can build, there are ideas worth taking forward.Launch a human node, make a proposal to Vortex, and help us build and govern the future together.Here’s the full invitation: https://blog.humanode.io/vortex-needs-you/HumanodeVortex Needs YouThe Humanode project launched back in early 2020, with a small team of 5 people. Many years have passed; we have experienced a brief bull run and a long bear market, launched the first cryptobiometric blockchain, we created the foundational tools for a global…Humanode Announcements
1 Sept, 17:04
Street robbery collapsed in the West because banks could get stolen money back. Crypto rebuilt this feature and called it instant finality.Why blockchains are still bad rails for everyday economy - more reasons in the new podcast with Alex McFarlane of Keyring Network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnb6X9055ygYouTubeInstant finality is a bugInstant finality means stolen crypto can never be clawed back. Alex McFarlane of Keyring Network on why that is a bug. Instant settlement and instant finality get treated as one feature. They are two different things and only one of them is worth having.…Humanode Announcements
31 Aug, 18:01
Happy Monday! How about starting the week with a new term for your governance vocabulary?
Humanode Announcements
27 Aug, 12:22
Ever tried keeping up with every governance proposal while also having a life?IOG’s Leios update today reports major throughput gains in testing. Meanwhile, Cardano’s committee renewal vote still needs more support before September 1.For anyone designing governance, there’s a broader question here: how much of your time should having a say actually cost?Humanode’s Vortex starts with one equal base vote per eligible Governor. This article asks how that voice can remain meaningful when work, family or sleep takes you offline.https://blog.humanode.io/democracy-has-an-uptime-problem/HumanodeDemocracy has an uptime problemDecentralized governance is usually described as equality through the distribution of political weight. Proof-Humanode Announcements
26 Aug, 14:15
Another Thursday, another excuse to actually find out what’s been going on around Humanode without piecing it together from 37 different posts.The Humanode Community Call is happening this Thursday, August 27.As always, you can jump on stage, ask the founders questions, and share feedback.Thursday, August 27 14:00 UTChttps://discord.gg/rKBwtAtS4?event=1467927462011994387Humanode Announcements
25 Aug, 11:40
Humanode Newsletter Vol. 122 is live!August brought a big Vortex milestone and plenty happening across the ecosystem:⚖️ Vortex Alpha v0.3 introduces Courts🧬 Humanode’s privacy model for proof of unique human🎯 BotKiller turns the anti-bot thesis into an onchain browser game🎮 Catacomb Crawlers launches on iOS🗳 New thinking on skin in the game, representation, and governance📊 Why prediction markets need to know how many humans are actually speaking🎙 Shannon tells his story in a new Humanode interviewRead the full update: https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-newsletter-vol-122/Humanode Announcements
24 Aug, 17:09
Happy Monday, everyone! Starting the week with a little something from Vortexopedia for this week’s learning.
Humanode Announcements
21 Aug, 14:47
Crypto was supposed to cut intermediaries. Sometimes elected representatives are these intermediaries worth cutting.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwPv139XpjoYouTubeGive Power to the People, Never the PersonRepresentative democracy has a design flaw that nobody talks about: we hand power to individuals and then act surprised when they behave like individuals. Shannon O'Higgins proposes a different arrangement. A council of nine, or nineteen, or thirty-five…Humanode Announcements
20 Aug, 11:44
With AI agents everywhere, proving you are human has become more urgent than ever.Inside crypto, that creates a harder problem. Users were taught never to reveal which human they are, so proof of personhood has to establish uniqueness without giving away pseudonymity.Humanode’s privacy model starts with one narrow question: is a living, unique human behind this account?The real questions begin after the scan. What remains? Who can see it? What does the app learn? Can Humanode itself access any of it?Those answers determine whether proof of personhood preserves crypto’s pseudonymity or quietly takes it away.See how Humanode answers them: https://blog.humanode.io/data-privacy-and-security-with-humanode-what-you-need-to-know/HumanodeData privacy and security with Humanode: What you need to knowOne of the hardest things about building in this space is getting a lot of questions directly or indirectly, asking if you’re not just one more project collecting sensitive data. Especially when you say “biometrics.” It’s the sort of word that makes people…
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