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Vortex Alpha v0.2 - The UI/Design Overhaul

Vortex Alpha v0.2 is the first release where the simulator stops looking like a collection of governance screens and starts feeling like one designed civic system. This update is a full UI and design…

6d ago·6 min read·1183 words

Humanode Newsletter Vol. 119

Hi everyone, Welcome to Humanode Newsletter! Over the past few weeks, we have been working across several connected directions: Vortex, Agentlink, ecosystem visibility, onboarding initiatives, commu…

May 28·9 min read·1635 words

Vortex Dev Log #16 - The biggest update so far

The biggest update so far but unseen to users!   This week we concentrated on refactoring Vortex. Actually the refactor was going on for a month Vortex has moved through a lot of product surface qui…

May 25·3 min read·553 words

WURK integrates Agentlink

WURK.fun is the work layer for agent commerce on x402. AI agents call WURK to hire real humans for microtasks: X raids, replies on questions, comments, polls, social engagement campaigns paid per resp…

May 20·3 min read·438 words

How a revolution got tamed, and what we have to build next

On January 3, 2009, the first block of Bitcoin went live with a sentence buried in its code: “The Times of London headline from that morning: Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” Satoshi …

May 18·21 min read·4035 words

Agentlink launches on Base

Agentic commerce is forming on Base via x402, the emerging onchain payment standard for AI agents. The services that can tell human-linked agents apart from disposable wallets will price differently t…

May 12·1 min read·82 words

Xona integrates Agentlink

XONA is a creative AI agent on x402. Other agents call it to generate premium images and video, paid per call via x402 micropayments. As of today, agents that have linked to a verified human through A…

May 11·1 min read·92 words

Vortex Dev Log #15 - The Great Bug Hunt Restores Trust

Date: 2026-04-27 * Rebuilt the DB-backed server test harness so each test file has its own isolated Postgres database. * Fixed same-key SS58 identity drift across server and web governance surfaces…

May 8·1 min read·89 words

Agentic AI needs a human verification layer. And Web3 hasn't built it yet.

Most people still think of AI as something you chat with. You ask a question, it answers, and sometimes it confidently says something stupid enough to cost you money. But that version of AI is alread…

May 7·1 min read·101 words

Agentlink: Bringing Proof of Human to the Agentic Web

Agentlink brings Proof of Human to the agentic web. And it uses Humanode under the hood. The first wave of AI agent services is about to repeat the same predictable, expensive mistake. They will lau…

May 6·1 min read·92 words

Validator Fee Structure Update and Vortex Governance Rewards

Dear Human Nodes, With the launch of the Vortex Simulator (or proto-Vortex) and the invitation for Human Nodes to begin their journey toward participating as governors of Humanode - holding voting po…

Apr 6·1 min read·89 words

Humanode Foundational Charters

Preamble We, the people of the Humanode Network, resolved to reaffirm the equal political worth of every person, and to advance freedom through decentralization rather than through the concentration …

Apr 6·1 min read·69 words

Vortex Dev Log #11 — Delegation, Final Proposal Outcomes, and Release Hardening

TL;DR This update turns several important parts of Vortex Simulator from “working in principle” into something that feels much closer to a real product. Delegation is now visible, auditable, and pol…

Apr 3·1 min read·88 words

Why PoBU is being proposed

In the last piece, we looked at what still needs to happen next for PoBU: clearer rules, safer summaries from the identity side, stronger privacy, broader issuer design, and better measurement.  Now …

Apr 2·1 min read·90 words

World still wants Democracy. It does not trust the delivery system

There is a funny ritual modern politics still performs with a straight face. People vote. Governments win. Flags stay raised. Parliaments open. Courts issue rulings, and the news anchors keep calling…

Mar 31·1 min read·95 words

Community Call Recap Vol.10

We hope everyone had a great weekend, and yes, it is time to say Happy Monday! As the team prepares the Vortex Simulator for launch this week, the Community Call focused on the Humanode Roadmap (http…

Mar 30·1 min read·87 words

How PoBU gets stronger from here

In the last piece, we talked about what the chain can show today, and what it still cannot show directly. That leads to a very normal question: If the paper already explains PoBU, what does it still…

Mar 25·1 min read·97 words

Humanode Biweekly Vol. 116

Hi everyone, Welcome to Humanode Biweekly Vol. 116, where we round up the latest across governance, ecosystem infrastructure, research, and long-form discussion. This cycle, Vortex continued to move…

Mar 23·1 min read·72 words

Humanode Community Call Recap Vol.9

As spring is the herald of new growth, the breezes of confirmation that wafted through the Community Call were firm promises of fresh growth in Humanode. Unlike the previous calls, this one focused o…

Mar 23·1 min read·88 words

What we’ve covered in the PoBU theme series so far

As you know, we’ve been breaking the nerdy version of the PoBU paper into small, easy parts. The goal is simple: help you understand PoBU without needing to read it like a researcher. So far, we have…

Mar 19·1 min read·97 words

PoBU: What the chain can’t show (yet)

In the last piece, we covered what the PoBU paper measures on a running chain: validator-set breadth and churn, and block-author concentration. Those are chain-derived signals anyone can reproduce. T…

Mar 17·1 min read·89 words

Community Call Recap 8

The 8th Community Call was marked with announcements of major progress and hinted towards the end of the initial testing phase of proto-Vortex. The first half of the call focused on going over the ch…

Mar 16·1 min read·88 words

When AI Agents Become “Users,” Who Counts as a Person?

By Sasha Shilina “No one can be replaced by anyone else.” — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition Something subtle is shifting in the language of tech. Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft, recently said he…

Mar 12·1 min read·98 words

Vortex-simulator (Proto-Vortex) Alpha v0.2 is live

Alpha v0.2 is now available for testing. This release makes Vortex feel much more like a real living system instead of a static simulator. The biggest update is inVision, which now shows the state of…

Mar 11·1 min read·85 words

Vortex Dev Log #10 — inVision Goes Live, Legitimacy Referendum, and Stability Engine

TL;DR inVision is now a live system-state dashboard instead of a placeholder. The simulator now exposes a real Legitimacy mechanic driven by active human-node objections, a distinct referendum flow w…

Mar 11·1 min read·86 words

Humanode on Substack

Humanode has opened a Substack. Over time, the work around Humanode has touched subjects that move slowly and carry weight. Identity on the internet. Sybil resistance. governance. privacy. the struct…

Mar 9·1 min read·81 words

Community Call Recap 7

Another week of progress, another Community Call to hash things out.   This week's Community Call mostly focused on Article 9 and Article 10 of the Humanode Charters before moving on to discussing th…

Mar 9·1 min read·92 words

Vortex Dev Sim Log #8&9 - Alpha Stabilization (Bug Fixes) + Proposal Sync, Transition Snapshots, and Stability Release

Dev Log #8 — Alpha Stabilization (Bug Fixes) TL;DR This stabilization wave focused on live-production correctness: chamber metrics, chamber voting transitions, submission eligibility, formation-to-…

Mar 6·1 min read·82 words

PoBU, measured on a running chain

In the last piece, we covered the threat model. The paper lists the main ways a PoBU system can fail or be weakened in practice: issuer concentration, compromise/coercion, availability, and privacy/li…

Mar 3·1 min read·82 words

Community Call Recap 6

Another week, another Community Call.  The attendance was low this time, which is rather surprising considering the topics being discussed and the impact the participants can hold in the future of Vor…

Mar 2·1 min read·87 words

What can go wrong in PoBU? (Threat model)

In the last piece, we covered why PoBU is probabilistic. It explained that the strength of the “one eligible account per human” rule depends on two things: biometric error rates and policy choices. N…

Feb 26·1 min read·98 words

Humanode Biweekly vol.115

Vortex alpha is live, Biomapper C2 ships to MegaETH + Polygon, BotBasher dTelecom integration, Biomapper CVM rotated, Music Contest results, Fireside, new PoBU reads, Eidōlon Points (Episteme), and mo…

Feb 24·1 min read·82 words

Vortex Alpha is open for Testing

Today we’re opening the doors to something we’ve been building in the open for months. Vortex Alpha is now live. This is the first time Proto-Vortex moves out of internal loops and into real user ha…

Feb 24·1 min read·87 words

Eidōlon Points: How Episteme Rewards Real Humans for Building Markets for Scientific Truth

Episteme introduces Eidōlon Points, an activity-based system that rewards real participation in scientific prediction markets. With Humanode verification, the system prioritizes signal over noise and …

Feb 13·1 min read·85 words