The Humanode Manifesto

One Human. One Node. One Vote.

Decentralization was meant to reshape the world -
To remove arbiters, to replace hierarchy with logic,
To bring alignment between systems and those who power them.
Instead, imbalance crept in through other channels:
Through capital, through automation, through scale.

Power concentrated where capital aggregated.
Systems built to distribute power were optimized for yield.
Identity became abstracted - interchangeable, forged, farmed.

Humanode is a clean break.

Not a patch.
Not a variation.
A foundational reset.

We start from a single invariant:

Existence is enough.
Not wealth.
Not stake.
Not scale.

A real human, verified as such -
That is the node. That is the validator.
One human. One node. One vote.

Proof of the Person

Humanode replaces proxies with presence.
You do not mine. You do not stake.
You authenticate. Biometrically. Privately.
No mining to scale. No assets to leverage.
Just you - cryptographically verified as a living, unique being.

This is Proof-of-Biometric-Uniqueness.
A Sybil-resistance rooted in the unforgeable.
No duplicates. No emulations.
Consensus enforced by the laws of human uniqueness.

Power cannot be accumulated  -
It can only be maintained through continued existence.

The Chain Built on Reality

This is not a hypothesis.
It is a network - live, tested, and scaling.
Thousands of human validators already run nodes:
Individuals from across continents, cultures, and callings.

Each a peer in the chain.
Each equal in validation power.
Each standing not for speculation
but for the idea that a network should mirror the human world -
not abstract it.

We envision a planetary system powered not by capital,
but by cognition and presence.
A network that scales with people,
not machines.

This isn’t a movement.
It’s not a rebellion.
It’s infrastructure -
The base layer for systems that recognize people as people.

If You Still Believe

If you believe decentralization should mean something,
If you want systems that resist capture by design,
If you think digital foundations should honor
truth, uniqueness, and autonomy -
you’re already with us.

One human. One node.
I cast a vote. I’m Humanode.