A new term for your governance vocabulary.

Vortex's Governance Tiers

Our main site got an update - check it out!

-> humanode.io

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 coming

We’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/

a16z governance ideas and roadmap, published back in 2024.

Let's check it out and compare to Humanode:

1. Incentivizing Participation & Turnout via Durable Community Stakes ✅ (done)
2. Reputation-Based Governance & Moving Beyond Token Wealth ✅
3. Institutional Veto Power to Check Oligarchy ✅
4. Deliberative Democracy & Citizens' Assemblies ✅
5. Transitioning from Direct to Representative (Indirect) Democracy (our comment to this: there was never direct democracy, could not be be observed, and we are going for max non-representative democrazy)

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/dao-research-a-roadmap-for-experimenting-with-governance/

and

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/the-web3-governance-lab/

Constant deterrence, because in crypto, decentralization tends to last until the whales wake up.

An agent that fails at a task it handled yesterday cannot run a company, let alone an institution.

Tim Hafner, Founder of OpenServ on how SERV Reasoning is closing this reliability gap, where the next great AI moats will form, and a future where AIs hold a controlling stake in Ethereum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b96qLhOELY4

Full episode:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/06PThIMmHFCddlYSKD24O1

Vortex has moved past theory.

✅ 3 projects are now in Formation;
✅ Milestones are being voted on,
✅ Funds are being released step by step,
✅ and several proposals have already failed to make it through.

From a Humanode Docker image to the 2067 publication project, here’s what the DAO is actually funding, rejecting, and building right now.

Read the full Vortex update: https://blog.humanode.io/whats-happening-in-egalitarian-humanode-dao-vortex/

2026 is nearing it's end.... and that means HumanodeCon V is on! The 5th assembly of believers in egalitarian decentralization of crypto. Human nodes, friends and partners from the ecosystem.

This year we decided to ask you about the format!

Check out the poll below.