📰 Humanode Biweekly Vol.113 is out!

tl;dr
🌀 Vortex Demo UI released + updates to the proto-Vortex proposal flow

🤖 Polana Network integrated BotBasher in Discord to fight bots

🔥 Humanode Fireside with Chung (Investment Partner @ ArkStream Capital)

🎥 AI video contest voting is live

📜 New essays: When Your Game Economy Starts Lying to You + When decentralization stops growing

🗳️ Opinions: Slaves by training + The pitfall of centralized servers


Stay human. Always.
👉 Full update here: https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-biweekly-vol-113/

Just a heads up for everyone staking in the WeHMND/WETH pool.

The current LP staking contract ends tomorrow, December 25, 2025, at block 16048876. At the exact same block, a new LP pool goes live and will run for the next 6 months:
0x7Fff8c2d71aF0d3bD8750feEc800C6a0b952d812

If you’re currently staked in the WeHMND/WETH pool:
* Rewards stop once the current contract ends
* Your LP tokens remain safe
* To keep earning, you’ll need to unstake from the old contract and restake in the new one
* Rewards start as soon as you stake in the new pool
* You can still claim any rewards you already earned in the previous contract

How to move your stake:
1. Unstake your LP tokens from the old contract.
2. Go to the new contract and stake the same LP tokens.

If you’re new to Biostaking, this new pool is a clean entry point. Current APR ranges between 20% and 200%, depending on network conditions.

Start staking here:
https://mainnet.biostaker.hmnd.app/

Step-by-step guide:
https://link.humanode.io/guide/biodefi

The winners of round 1 of the Humanode AI Video Contest have been selected by those community members who wielded their voting power in the Sybil-resistance voting channel ⁠sr-polls. As in Vortex, one human, one vote. As mentioned, those who joined after the contest submission closed were excluded from the votes.

After excluding the invalid votes (due to joining after the end of the submission period), the winners in each group were…:

Group A 1️⃣ and 6️⃣
Group B 9️⃣ and 2️⃣
Group C 2️⃣ and 3️⃣
Group D 3️⃣ and 8️⃣

Some results were expected, some were surprising and unexpected. Then again, the community has spoken.

With that being said, the videos mentioned above advanced to the final 72-hour voting round to decide the top 3 videos of the contest. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite video in ⁠sr-polls channel in Humanode Discord server.

In addition to the previously mentioned rewards for the “pick-up” videos shared on X, the team will be giving out $20 worth of HMND to a select few videos that the Core Team was most impressed by.

We will be announcing these videos, along with the winners, once the winners have been selected.

Remember, as long as you are a verified human, you each have a vote. One vote. Use it wisely, use it with pride.

Note: Same as before, new accounts and new joins ( counting from the day the initial voting started) to the Humanode Discord server may vote, but their votes will not count. Especially those 29 accounts that joined on Dec 19th, and magically all voted for the same videos, including the one with one valid vote vs 29 invalid votes…

Xmas video

https://youtu.be/8DzMVBqxdCE

This latest article is about something prediction market builders usually feel before they can explain it.

Markets that converge too early. Liquidity that shows up too clean. Prices that move before reality does.

This piece looks at how Sybils and cheap identities quietly bend prediction markets, why decentralization alone doesn’t fix it, and what changes when participation maps to people instead of accounts.

Read here: https://blog.humanode.io/what-prediction-market-builders-are-missing-about-sybils/

🎉 Congratulations to the winners of the first Humanode AI Generated Video contest! 🎉

We were all excited about the quality of many of the videos that were submitted, and especially about how you all did an excellent job in trying to convey our core message.

The whole contest gave us ideas for further utilization of video content, and gave us more learning into how to better do contests in the future. But as of now, the community has spoken, and here are the winners of the contest.

🥇1st Place: https://x.com/EMMANUELEJIRO11/status/1994763023706460588
🥈 2nd Place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RL7_hixUtY
🥉 3rd Place: https://x.com/Tr01618/status/1998858853849641106?s=20

The following videos, along with those selected to be shared on our social media, will receive a special reward from the Humanode Core Team for their excellence.

▶️ https://x.com/rockrocketzzz/status/2000896394564132874
▶️ https://x.com/sheisidara/status/2001016622367256767
▶️ https://x.com/lonerogue8/status/1999802368557224245
▶️ https://x.com/viccweb3/status/2001059285409690081

We will be contacting the winners and sending their well-deserved rewards.

We live in a world where laws and systems often only matter when they serve the powerful. And we think it’s time to build something better.

A world where success isn’t measured only by money or power - but by ideas, collaboration, and helping others bring their visions to life.

A world of true decentralization: a shared “ledger of truth” owned by everyone, not dominated by big money, old power, or industrial miners.

A world where governance belongs to the people - direct participation, or delegation to experts you trust, not distant politicians or corporations.

A world where finance is a public good, not a weapon of inequality. Systems built for the 99% - where participation and uniqueness matter.

As we enter the new year, let’s continue to engage, build trust, and develop systems that serve the many - not just the few.

We’re looking forward to keep on building this future together with you.

We blinked… and the world aged another year.
While the holidays passed, Proto-Vortex leveled up - nearing full functionality and real testing.

Can’t share everything yet, but exciting updates are coming.

In the meantime, here is where you can find the detailed progress of proto-Vortex: https://blog.humanode.io/proto-vortex-update-jan-5/

Proto-Vortex reminder

Each day, Proto-Vortex continues to show us how ideas move from early thoughts into structured decisions. As the process unfolds, it is worth taking a moment to remind everyone how proposals flow and where we currently stand.

At the moment, there are two proposals in the Deliberation Ready phase, and one proposal has already passed. This is exactly what this proof-of-concept phase is meant to surface: real proposals, real discussion, and real learning.

For anyone new, or for those thinking about submitting a proposal, the process follows three simple phases.

The flow is simple:

Draft → Deliberation Ready → Voting Ready

• Draft is for early feedback. Feel the room. Test the idea.
• Deliberation Ready is where governors engage, question, and challenge.
• Voting Ready is the soft-lock. Voting happens. ⅔ approval passes.

If a proposal doesn’t pass, that’s not failure. It freezes until the context meaningfully changes. No spam. No reruns. Learn, refine, come back stronger.

You can browse existing proposals, see how they evolved, and use them as references for your own. That’s part of the process.

Proto-Vortex is ongoing, and proposals can be submitted at any time. All draft proposals are currently created and discussed in the ⁠proto-vortex-rules channel on Discord.
We’re genuinely happy to see proposals already moving through deliberation, and we expect more to come.

Small heads-up: Proto-Vortex will eventually move from Discord to the Vortex website. Discord is the proving ground. The website is where this is headed.

In the meantime, the system is working.
Ideas are flowing. Proposals are live. Happy proposing.

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