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	0.08236USDT	-8.74%	15,818,060.00H	17,320	0.09025USDT	0.09027USDT
2	H-USDT HUSDT	bybit	A	0.08231USDT	-8.77%	11,845,273.30H	13,292	0.09022USDT	0.09022USDT
3	H-USDT H-USDT	kucoin	BB	0.08239USDT	-8.70%	1,810,379.00H	3,837	0.09024USDT	0.09024USDT
4	H-USDT HUSDT_SPBL	bitget	BB	0.08233USDT	-8.95%	1,528,612.20H	4,121	0.09042USDT	0.09042USDT
5	H-USD H_USD	cryptodotcom	AA	0.08428USD	-6.62%	62,741.00H	96	0.09025USD	0.09242USD
6	H-USDT HUSDT	cexio	BB	0.08125USDT	-9.59%	15,413.39H	6	0.08986USDT	0.08986USDT
7	H-USD HUSD	cexio	BB	0.08145USD	-9.52%	15,250.51H	6	0.09002USD	0.09002USD
8	H-USDC HUSDC	cexio	BB	0.08771USDC	-2.27%	374.68H	1	0.08975USDC	0.08975USDC
9	H-TRY HTRY	btcturk	E	2.73TRY	1.20%	8,819,437.80H	2,232	2.70TRY	2.79TRY
10	H-USDT HUSDT	toobit	C	0.08236USDT	-8.68%	2,649,760.13H	10,968	0.09019USDT	0.09019USDT
11	H-USDT HUSDT	mexc	C	0.08246USDT	-8.61%	1,663,227.45H	5,595	0.09023USDT	0.09023USDT
12	H-USDT H_USDT	bitunix	C	0.08234USDT	-8.76%	1,310,955.01H	10,580	0.09025USDT	0.09025USDT
13	H-USDC HUSDC	mexc	C	0.08240USDC	-8.46%	721,437.36H	3,297	0.09002USDC	0.09024USDC
14	H-USDT HUSDT	btcturk	E	0.05650USDT	2.39%	446,178.00H	82	0.05518USDT	0.05705USDT
15	H-IDR humanityidr	indodax	E	1,314.00IDR	0.46%	108,046.28H	324	1,308.00IDR	1,326.00IDR
16	H-USDT HUSDT	coinex	C	0.08281USDT	-7.80%	8,723.84H	1,670	0.08981USDT	0.08981USDT
17	H-USDT h_usdt	xtpub	-	0.05270USDT	0.00%	0H	0	0.05270USDT	0.05270USDT