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.

A Governor should only be judged on votes they actually had a fair chance to cast.

Vortex Dev Log #21 changes how Active Governor status is calculated:

• Governors now need to participate in one-third of their eligible Proposal Pool and chamber-vote opportunities, rounded up.

• A vote only becomes a participation requirement after the stage has been open for 24 hours. If it closes earlier, missing it does not count against the Governor.

• Authors, Formation team members, and others excluded from specific votes no longer have those impossible votes added to their required activity.

• And when a milestone or reconsideration opens a new chamber vote, it counts as a separate opportunity with its own eligible voters.

Plus, Formation teams also get a clearer application, acceptance, and membership process.

Read the full update: https://blog.humanode.io/vortex-dev-log-21-a-fair-chance-to-govern/

We are changing transaction fees for the Humanode chain.

Until now, we have kept fees at a minimum to help subsidise the network’s bootstrap phase. Now, it is time to set fees that will help pay for decentralization.

All transaction fees go to human nodes and governors. The more human nodes and governors the network has, the more decentralized it becomes. And decentralization, the core promise of a blockchain, does not come for free.

For now, fees will be adjusted based on the HMND token price. This is another step on our path toward a cost-based fee system.

https://blog.humanode.io/humanode-transaction-fees-are-changing-a-fee-model-for-a-more-decentralised-humanode/