Biweekly update on @Humanode vol.35
19th October — 2nd October
Mainnet in 2 weeks, Presale Wave III is still up and running, Regular dev updates are out, An interview with founder and CEO of Ink Finance — one of Humanode’s business partners, ‘Humanode’s Got Talent’ winners, Humanode Torch continues, and more!
TL;DR
Dear crypto community, welcome to the November edition of Humanode biweekly! A lot has happened since the last report, spend a few moments for our quick recap.
Keep in mind, that the Humanode public sale Wave III is still up and running. It will be open until November 8th, 14:00 UTC, or until all tokens are sold out. All of you who have successfully completed the KYC on Tokensoft are able to participate in the event. So don’t hesitate and join!
Recently, the Humanode team announced the date of the mainnet! It is set for November 15th, 2022. With the launch, Humanode is going to be the first network to deploy a crypto-biometric-based Sybil resistance instead of PoS and PoW bringing the proper distribution of validation power to web3. 1 human = 1 node = 1 vote and all nodes are equal. By design, all human nodes will be equal in terms of validation power. In the beginning, the amount of validators is going to be capped at 1000. If you’ve paid close attention to the HMND token distribution you might have noticed that 2% is reserved for mainnet validators. This is a special fund that will bootstrap the functioning of the first 100 human node validators that are going to join. Regardless of the saturation of the network, it will cover the cost of running the nodes for several years to come. There will be no pre-onboarding period. The mainnet will be deployed at a particular time and the human nodes will be able to onboard themselves as they did to any other testnet. Besides the mainnet, the team is also going to launch a canary network, a testnet for the mainnet, and a testnet for the canary network to give tools to build some really creative stuff.
The current Humanode’s development progress was minutely shared in the regular update. As for the network development, the team removed unused constant dependency at humanode-runtime, moved constants to separate mod, updated time warp instruction with proper args, backported time warp run mode to testnet 4, and implemented chainSpec RPC API. Moreover, they’ve been working on integrations with Gitcoin Passport allowing users to prove their identity through a secure, decentralized UI.
Other than that, the team published an interview with Tony Tang, founder and CEO of Ink Finance –the second article of Humanode’s new series of interviews with business partners. Read to find out how Ink Finance uses Humanode to help businesses build Sybil resistance Financial DAOs.
Moreover, the team continues to pass Humanode Torch around and invites community members to share their thoughts about Humanode. The team randomly asks the community questions, such as the recent questions “Why Humanode?” and “What do you like about Humanode?” and selects answers. If the torch is passed to you, grab the opportunity to speak out and inspire the global Humanode community!
That’s all for today. Join Wave III and stay in the loop! Humanode mainnet is around the corner!
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https://medium.com/paradigm-research/humanode-mainnet-in-2-weeks-presale-wave-iii-is-still-up-and-running-regular-dev-updates-are-94930404aa42 
