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 HUSDT	bybit	A	0.05576USDT	2.75%	6,943,914.70H	9,009	0.05427USDT	0.05760USDT
2	H-USDT H_USDT	gateio	A	0.05577USDT	2.97%	4,412,556.50H	13,393	0.05416USDT	0.05756USDT
3	H-USDT HUSDT_SPBL	bitget	BB	0.05560USDT	2.66%	341,119.60H	1,148	0.05416USDT	0.05732USDT
4	H-USDT H-USDT	kucoin	BB	0.05574USDT	2.71%	288,760.00H	3,937	0.05427USDT	0.05758USDT
5	H-USD H_USD	cryptodotcom	AA	0.05227USD	4.87%	18,012.00H	17	0.04984USD	0.05714USD
6	H-USDT HUSDT	cexio	BB	0.05419USDT	-5.58%	405.30H	1	0.05739USDT	0.05739USDT
7	H-USD HUSD	cexio	BB	0.05549USD	2.96%	432.32H	1	0.05389USD	0.05549USD
8	H-USDC HUSDC	cexio	BB	0.05575USDC	-1.99%	297.22H	1	0.05688USDC	0.05688USDC
9	H-TRY HTRY	btcturk	E	1.97TRY	-4.16%	3,020,177.30H	783	2.05TRY	2.08TRY
10	H-USDT HUSDT	toobit	C	0.05580USDT	2.86%	2,155,950.28H	9,356	0.05425USDT	0.05749USDT
11	H-USDT H_USDT	bitunix	C	0.05577USDT	2.90%	1,274,559.89H	7,930	0.05420USDT	0.05754USDT
12	H-USDT HUSDT	mexc	C	0.05570USDT	2.63%	1,168,193.23H	3,637	0.05427USDT	0.05759USDT
13	H-USDC HUSDC	mexc	C	0.05567USDC	2.83%	985,258.04H	3,019	0.05414USDC	0.05738USDC
14	H-IDR humanityidr	indodax	E	896.00IDR	-6.28%	55,267.31H	160	956.00IDR	956.00IDR
15	H-USDT HUSDT	btcturk	E	0.04000USDT	-4.31%	44,990.00H	75	0.04180USDT	0.04700USDT