Question 1

What is Humanity Protocol?

Accepted Answer

Humanity Protocol is a decentralised, privacy-preserving identity verification infrastructure designed to solve the challenge of Sybil attacks and duplicate digital identities without relying on central authorities. It provides a permissionless framework that verifies users' uniqueness through palm recognition biometrics, while preserving anonymity using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs). The platform is built on a zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) Layer 2 blockchain using Polygon’s Chain Development Kit (CDK), ensuring compatibility with Ethereum and scalability for widespread deployment.

Question 2

Core Architecture

Accepted Answer

- **ZK Biometric Proofs**: The protocol uses palm recognition—a biometric modality with high uniqueness and low forgery rates—to establish that each participant is a real, unique human. This biometric data is converted into hashed representations and processed using ZKPs to generate identity attestations without revealing raw data.

- **zkEVM Infrastructure**: Deployed on a ZK rollup for scalability and privacy, Humanity Protocol leverages Polygon CDK to maintain composability with Ethereum while ensuring cost-efficient operation.

- **Sybil Resistance Mechanism**: By enforcing that each palm scan corresponds to a single identifier, the system ensures one-human-one-identity constraints. Palm signatures are locally encrypted and compared to prevent duplicates using zkML (zero-knowledge machine learning).

- **Trusted Execution and Verifiers**: Decentralised verifiers known as zkProofers validate the biometric claims. These nodes stake H tokens and are rewarded for uptime, accuracy, and fraud detection, ensuring a self-regulating ecosystem.

- **Decentralised Identity (DID) Layer**: The protocol issues cryptographically secured DIDs that can be used across dApps and Web3 services, making Humanity Protocol a foundational identity layer for permissionless systems.

Question 3

What is Humanity (H) used for?

Accepted Answer

The H token is the native utility token of the Humanity Protocol and underpins its economic and security models. It is used in the following capacities:

- **Verification Utility**: Applications that require identity confirmation (e.g. social media, voting, airdrops, or DeFi platforms) pay fees in H to verify users via the Humanity identity layer.

- **Staking for zkProofers**: Verifiers in the network stake H tokens as a form of economic security. Misbehaviour or false validation results in stake slashing, aligning incentives with network integrity.

- **Network Governance**: Token holders can vote on upgrades to the biometric algorithms, validator incentives, integration policies, or parameter adjustments within the protocol.

- **Reward Distribution**: Users who verify their identity through the protocol, refer others, or participate in consensus mechanisms can receive H tokens as incentives.

- **Anti-Sybil Economic Layer**: By attaching economic cost (via H) to participation and verification attempts, the protocol deters spam and Sybil behaviours effectively.

Question 4

Who created Humanity (H)?

Accepted Answer

Humanity Protocol was founded by Terence Kwok, with technical support and co-development from Human Institute, Polygon Labs, and Animoca Brands.

#	Instrument	Exchange	Benchmark Score	Price	24h Change	24h Volume	24h Trades	24h Open	24h High
1	H-USDT H_USDT	gateio	A	0.08575USDT	4.47%	13,798,900.83H	31,343	0.08208USDT	0.08621USDT
2	H-USDT HUSDT	bybit	A	0.08586USDT	4.57%	9,833,276.20H	22,146	0.08211USDT	0.08621USDT
3	H-USDT HUSDT_SPBL	bitget	BB	0.08565USDT	4.11%	2,136,161.30H	9,260	0.08227USDT	0.08601USDT
4	H-USDT H-USDT	kucoin	BB	0.08585USDT	4.48%	1,472,157.00H	4,232	0.08216USDT	0.08625USDT
5	H-USD H_USD	cryptodotcom	AA	0.08463USD	2.35%	80,633.00H	97	0.08269USD	0.08700USD
6	H-USDC HUSDC	cexio	BB	0.08073USDC	-3.21%	295.80H	1	0.08340USDC	0.08340USDC
7	H-USD HUSD	cexio	BB	0.08306USD	2.78%	276.08H	1	0.08081USD	0.08306USD
8	H-USDT HUSDT	cexio	BB	0.08329USDT	3.28%	236.64H	1	0.08065USDT	0.08329USDT
9	H-TRY HTRY	btcturk	E	3.19TRY	26.80%	39,919,185.40H	9,853	2.51TRY	3.36TRY
10	H-USDT HUSDT	toobit	C	0.08570USDT	4.33%	3,129,470.16H	18,449	0.08214USDT	0.08613USDT
11	H-USDT HUSDT	mexc	C	0.08587USDT	4.60%	1,303,079.70H	4,850	0.08209USDT	0.08659USDT
12	H-USDT H_USDT	bitunix	C	0.08569USDT	4.33%	930,030.68H	12,439	0.08213USDT	0.08616USDT
13	H-USDC HUSDC	mexc	C	0.08576USDC	4.47%	705,210.23H	3,066	0.08209USDC	0.08602USDC
14	H-USDT HUSDT	btcturk	E	0.06600USDT	26.44%	631,059.00H	150	0.05220USDT	0.06750USDT
15	H-IDR humanityidr	indodax	E	1,324.00IDR	0.38%	78,514.26H	245	1,319.00IDR	1,367.00IDR
16	H-USDT HUSDT	coinex	C	0.08549USDT	3.89%	68,258.42H	1,786	0.08229USDT	0.08574USDT
17	H-USDT h_usdt	xtpub	-	0.07646USDT	0.00%	0H	0	0.07646USDT	0.07646USDT