Dear friends and human nodes,

As we have been concentrated on the public side of things for quite a while we have not covered the technological developments that are soon to follow. Want to shed some light on what awaits Humanode in the upcoming months.

Humanode Mainnet

The Humanode mainnet will go live on November 15th. Don’t want to go into obvious emotional details of how we all have been waiting for this moment, but we really have. Got some early on facts about how it is going to deploy and what to expect as a future first generation human node.

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 we are going to be the first network ever to deploy a consensus safeguarded purely by Proof-of-Uniqueness and Proof-of-Existence of human beings. Just a reminder.

• By design all human nodes will be equal in terms of the validation power.

• At the beginning there is going to be no DAO, cause it’s something that we are aiming to build, but Proof-of-Time will already be in place calculating uptime and longevity of nodes validating transactions. If you don’t really get what I am writing about here check out this article on Vortex to know where we are going.

• The claim list will be uploaded into the genesis so that all participants of the waves could claim their respective tokens. It is going to be done the very same way as you’ve been doing it on testnet 4. More thorough guides would be provided later.

• Besides the mainnet we are also going to launch a canary network, a testnet for 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.