H Token H Token

$0.41 -53.36% H
Volume (24h)
$61,505,491
24h High
$0.44
24h Low
$0.07
Circulating Market Cap
$459,989,768
Total Market Cap
$1,624,175,727
Bid / Ask
$0.19 / $0.19
24h Trades
1,764,357

What is Humanity Protocol?

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.

Core Architecture

  • 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.

What is Humanity (H) used for?

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.

Who created Humanity (H)?

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