This report covers Holonym Foundation's progress across Human Passport, Human Network, and WaaP, alongside ecosystem-wide efforts from human.tech, January through March 2026.
Key Announcements
General (human.tech)
WaaP for Agents debuted at WalletCon 2026 and Pragma: human.tech took the stage in Cannes with multiple keynotes from Shady El Damaty, a live workshop by Nanak Nihal Khalsa, and interactive demo stations. watch keynote
human.tech × Aztec: Booth takeover at EthCC to preview the end-to-end privacy + compliance bridge for the Aztec ecosystem. see more
human.tech × Funding the Commons: Sponsored Intelligence at the Frontier in partnership with Frontier Tower, bringing 1,000 builders under one roof. see more
HUMN Season 2: Manifest Your Humanity: Launched Jan 14, expanding the HUMN points program into its second season. learn more
$HUMN teased: The HUMN token was publicly teased in February. token use cases
HUMNs in the Press: Broad Q1 coverage including a DL News interview with co-founder Shady El Damaty on solving the Sybil crisis and keeping humans in the loop. Additional coverage from Bitcoin.com, HackerNoon, Mpost, Blockster, and The Street. DL News interview
Human Passport
Human Passport × Newton (Magic Labs): Human Passport is now a data oracle on Newton Protocol, enabling Sybil-resistant transaction verification before execution. learn more
GuestList Stamp: Partners can create custom Stamps based on pre-vetted allowlists (NFT ownership, POAPs, or address lists) to recognize their known humans. docs
Human Network
Human Network went open-source: The code is now public and auditable. blog post announcement
WaaP
WaaP on Sui: SDK shipped Feb 12, the first fully decentralized embedded wallet layer on the Sui ecosystem. blog
WaaP × Push Chain: Integration launched Feb 24 as a co-marketed release. blog
WaaP CLI: WaaP for Agents, launched March 11. The first AI agent wallet infrastructure with Human-in-the-Loop Telegram approvals and 2PC custody.
npm i waap-cliships an agent wallet in under 10 minutes. launch threadNew Security Feature with Privileges: Privileges are like session tokens, but better! Scoped transaction approval for dApps and AI agents. Pre-approved credentials bound to recipient, chain, spending cap, and time limit: qualifying transactions sign automatically without repeated prompts. docs
Async Transactions: Non-blocking transaction flow for apps and agents. Signing and broadcasting decouple from the main thread, with event-driven progress tracking. docs
WaaP in Cannes, 2026: Our second time sponsoring WalletCon, this time in Cannes, with a headline workshop, interactive demo stations, and a keynote. We were also present at Pragma by ETH Global, where Shady gave a keynote, and sponsored the Rekt summit. workshop
Community
The Covenant: Post series completed. Nearly 24,000 members, over 10,000 artifacts submitted and under curation, and counting. recap
Artifact submission: Cycle 1 opened for The Covenant submissions. artworks, research articles, and other thought expression formats are welcome. read more
Intelligence at the Frontier: 1,000-person sponsored gathering with Funding the Commons + Frontier Tower. hackathon, talks, and workshops across 16 floors. recap
Celo LATAM Buildathon: human.tech sponsored a $1,000 bounty for integrating WaaP or Passport. learn more
human.tech
Q1 marked the shift from building the stack to putting it on stage. WaaP for Agents launched, WalletCon brought the thesis to a live audience, and The Covenant crossed from philosophy into community action.
Campaigns
HUMN Season 2: Manifest Your Humanity
Launched January 14, HUMN Season 2 expanded the points program beyond Passport activity into a broader cultural campaign tied to The Covenant and the Manifestation. Users earn 1,000 HUMN Points for signing The Covenant declaration, with additional ways to participate: upvoting artifacts, submitting original works (proposals, art, research), and joining governance through working groups and curation. Season 2 intentionally rewards curiosity and alignment over fixed grinding. learn more
IMAGE: HUMN Season 2 announcement graphic: source
The Covenant
The Covenant of Humanistic Technology, ten principles for building human-aligned digital systems, continued to grow through Q1. Over 10,000 artifacts were submitted by nearly 24,000 community members who signed the declaration, now under curation. recap
IMAGE: Covenant app frontpage: manifest.human.tech
$HUMN Teased
In February, we publicly announced the HUMN token. $HUMN is the cryptographic backbone of the human.tech ecosystem, secured by Human Network. The token is designed to align incentives across identity verification, key generation, and network security. While the token launch is on the horizon, the focus right now is on building out the foundational infrastructure that it will secure. token use cases
Partnerships & Collaborations
human.tech × Aztec
The end-to-end privacy and compliance bridge for Aztec Network continued development through Q1, with a booth takeover at EthCC in Cannes, previewing the upcoming product release. The bridge will be the first compliant Ethereum-to-Aztec on-and-off-ramp: users get full privacy, applications get regulatory defensibility, and compliance is enforced cryptographically rather than through plaintext PII. see more
Events & Gatherings
WalletCon 2026, Cannes
human.tech joined WalletCon as a Tier 1 sponsor. Co-founder and CEO Shady El Damaty delivered a keynote, "The Last Wallet You'll Ever Open", on what happens to wallets when agents start doing the economic work for us. Co-founder Nanak Nihal Khalsa ran a hands-on workshop on building safe agentic wallets with WaaP, and the booth featured interactive demo stations. watch keynote
IMAGE: WalletCon: Shady El Damaty's WalletCon keynote recap
Intelligence at the Frontier
Frontier Tower is a vertical festival across 16 floors where builders, artists, researchers, and founders converge on the defining questions of the technological moment. Alongside Funding the Commons, we sponsored the event that brought together 1,000 builders to explore the intersection of AI, identity, and public goods. Shady’s Human Flourishing talk is available to watch on the Funding the Commons YouTube. short event recap video
human.tech also co-sponsored the hackathon that offered over $20,000 in bounties and grants across ten thematic tracks, with a dedicated submission portal built at frontier.human.tech. Two winners of the human.tech human flourishing stream, build a reputation and ID systems.:
SovereignID developed a decentralized identity and authorization infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, built on Bittensor, that gives every agent a W3C DID backed by an Ed25519 keypair, bound to a human owner who has passed Holonym sybil-resistance verification.
MavuTrust built a bilateral, on-chain reputation protocol that holds AI agents accountable to the humans they hire. Workers rate agents on fairness, clarity, honesty, and respect after every task; scores are weighted by Human Passport proof-of-personhood.
IMAGE: Throwback to the Frontier event: LinkedIn
Pragma by ETHGlobal, Cannes
Shady El Damaty delivered a keynote at Pragma, ETHGlobal's flagship side event, arguing that the wallet as we know it will disappear within months, replaced by natural language interfaces where users set guardrails and delegate execution to AI agents. He walked through the 2PC architecture that makes this safe: the private key never exists in any single location, enabling runtime policies, spending limits, and time-limited permission tokens enforced at the server level. Live demo included: telling Claude to rebalance an Aave portfolio with a $500 cap and $10 gas limit. see more
HSC, Cannes
Shady joined the panel "Infrastructure Is Ready – Why Web3 Still Struggles to Reach Mass Adoption" at HSC in Cannes, alongside leaders from Base, Arbitrum, Tenderly, and Sonic Labs. The conversation covered usability gaps, cross-chain fragmentation, the fat protocol vs. fat wallet thesis, and whether wallets will even exist in a year. Shady's contributions focused on why web3 hasn't hit network effects yet and the case for post-quantum security and privacy. watch panel
IMAGE: HSC panel photo: source
HSC Asset Management in Hong Kong
At HSC Asset Management in Hong Kong, hosted by mpost.io , our co-founder Shady El Damaty gave a keynote titled “One Account, Every Chain.” Would you trust an AI agent with your private key? As agents are being embedded into wallets, trading systems, and productivity tools, we need to rethink the security behind their setup. Shady breaks down how you can delegate authority to an AI copilot without ever giving up your private key, and why programmable autonomy - not "permit all" - is the path forward. talk + recap
Tokenized Capital Summit 2026, Hong Kong
Tokenized Capital Summit saw Shady on stage for his “Who Controls Your Keys in the Agentic Economy?” keynote. If AI agents are going to run the economy, who actually holds the keys? This talk walks through the tension between human control and agent autonomy: why agents need custody to be useful, why blockchains weren't built with AI in mind, and how human-bound keys, 2PC MPC (two-party multi-party computation), and wallet-as-a-protocol infrastructure can bridge the gap. full video
Celo LATAM Buildathon Human Tech bounty
Latam Buildathon was a seven-week shipping sprint (Jan 19 to Mar 8, 2026) where founders, hackers, and designers across Latin America built and deployed projects on Celo Mainnet, competing for 8,000 CELO plus sponsor bounties. MotusDAO-DSE and Dona Cuadratico were the two winners of the human.tech bounty track (1,000 USDC). Both projects were verified as having substantive integrations of WaaP and/or Passport.
HUMN Writings & Thoughts
"Wallet as a Protocol, not a Service"
Published January 5, this foundational blog post laid out the WaaP thesis, describing why the wallet needs to become a protocol layer, not a vendor-locked service. read
"What is d/acc"
A deep dive into Defensive, Decentralized, Differential Acceleration, where we describe the philosophy driving human.tech's approach to building technology that protects rather than extracts. read
Edge City Patagonia Residency Recap
Published in January, the recap covered the 10-day human.tech residency co-hosted with Universal Profiles during Edge City in Patagonia, exploring d/acc through challenge statements on local economies, coordination, and governance. read more
2025 Wrapped
Published January 21, looking back at the full year, from the Gitcoin Passport acquisition through WaaP, Human Network milestones, and the launch of the Covenant. read
In the Press
Q1 brought strong coverage around WaaP for Agents launch and WalletCon:
DL News: Shady El Damaty on solving the Sybil crisis and keeping humans in the loop
The Street: Human.tech wallet infrastructure for AI agents
Bitcoin.com: Natural language wallet protocol for AI agents
HackerNoon: Why human.tech just killed the crypto wallet
Mpost: WaaP for Agents redefining wallets for autonomous AI
Blockster: The wallet is disappearing and something smarter is taking its place
Cointelegraph: Feature on "decentralization theater" with Nanak and Yan
CryptoCoinShow: Podcast with Shady on self-custody as the foundation of digital identity
Human Passport
Human Passport is the identity layer for web3: privacy-preserving, pluralistic proof of personhood used by 2.3M+ users across 120+ projects. For Passport, Q1 was less about new features and more about proving impact at scale, with a new oracle integration, strong case studies, and a push on educational content that anchored the pluralistic identity narrative.
Product Updates
Passport Embed
Passport Embed continued its rollout through Q1, letting partners add proof-of-humanity verification directly inside their dApp: no redirects, no pop-ups, no broken UX. One integration, privacy-preserving, plug-and-play. learn more
GuestList Stamp
Partners can create custom Stamps based on pre-vetted allowlists. Define eligibility by NFT ownership, POAP holdings, or a direct list of addresses, and set the point value awarded. This lets ecosystems recognize their known humans (event attendees, KYC'd users, contributor communities) and give them a shortcut to a passing Passport score. docs
Partnerships
Human Passport × Newton (Magic Labs)
Human Passport became a data oracle on Newton Protocol, enabling developers to screen transactions using Stamp scores, ML-based Sybil detection, and ZK compliance checks before a transaction executes. learn more
Campaigns & Case Studies
Gitcoin Grants: 10 Consecutive Rounds Protected
Passport defended its 10th consecutive Gitcoin Grants round (GG24), running ML models in the background during every round to score wallets and cluster coordinated Sybil behavior: without requiring donors to do anything extra. Passport is rooted in Gitcoin, having now served 120+ projects and 175+ campaigns, with $512M+ in protected capital flow. case study
Cyber FanClub
Cyber ran FanClub, a loyalty program rewarding community engagement with weekly raffle tickets. Passport's Sybil detection caught a single address that had funded gas to 1,700+ wallets, each buying 7 tickets per week. Without intervention, that single Sybil would have won 5,000 mini-shards every week from the raffle. see more
Content & Education
Q1 saw a push on educational content establishing Passport's position in the proof-of-personhood landscape:
Beyond Airdrops: How token launches, TGEs, and ICOs are evolving in 2026
Proof of Personhood Explained: How it works, who's building it, and why it matters now
Identity Is the Next Battleground for Web3: Airdrops, AI agents, and the return of digital trust
Web3 Identity Primer: From wallets to humans
IMAGE: Proof of personhood methods comparison: source
Stats
Human Network
Human Network is the decentralized threshold cryptography infrastructure behind Human Keys. It generates keys from familiar authentication (email, phone, social) without any single party ever holding the full key. Q1 was a quieter quarter for the Network, with one major move: going fully open source.
Product Updates
Open Source
In February, Human Network's codebase went fully open source. The threshold cryptography implementation, node infrastructure, and key generation protocols are now public and auditable. Verify, don't trust. blog announcement
Reintroducing vOPRF
Also in January, we published a deep dive reintroducing Human Network's verifiable Oblivious Pseudo-Random Function (vOPRF), the cryptographic primitive at the core of Human Key generation. The post explains how users derive keys from familiar authentication methods without any single party ever seeing the full key. read
IMAGE: Human Network vOPRF explainer graphic
Scale
WaaP
WaaP (Wallet as a Protocol) is a non-custodial wallet infrastructure using two-party computation (2PC), where the key never exists in full. It serves both apps (via SDK) and AI agents (via CLI). Q1 was WaaP's breakout quarter: Sui SDK shipped, the Agentic CLI launched as the biggest product release of the year, and WalletCon put it all on stage.
IMAGE: WaaP for Agents CLI announcement: source
Product Updates
WaaP on Sui
Shipped February 12, WaaP became the first fully decentralized embedded wallet layer on the Sui ecosystem. Developers can embed self-custodial wallets into Sui apps using familiar login methods (email, phone, Google, Face ID) with the same 2PC cryptographic guarantees as on EVM. blog
WaaP CLI (WaaP for Agents)
Launched March 11. The first wallet infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents. npm i waap-cli ships an agent wallet in under 10 minutes, with:
2PC custody where the key never exists in full
Human-in-the-Loop via one-tap Telegram approvals for high-risk transactions
Policy engine with daily spend limits, risk-triggered 2FA, and pre-approved transaction scopes
IMAGE: WaaP CLI architecture diagram: source
Permission Tokens
Scoped transaction approval for dApps and AI agents. Users or agents request a token with defined constraints (recipient, chain, spending cap, time limit), get one approval, and qualifying transactions are signed automatically until the token expires. No repeated prompts. docs
Async Transactions
Non-blocking transaction flow for apps and agents. Signing and broadcasting decouple from the main application thread, returning a pendingTxId with event-driven progress tracking. Apps continue functioning while transactions are processed in the background. docs
Partnerships
WaaP × Push Chain
WaaP integrated with Push Chain in February, bringing protected self-custody wallets to Push's communication and notification infrastructure. blog
Events
WalletCon 2026
Shady El Damaty's keynote put WaaP for Agents thesis in front of the WalletCon audience. The booth ran live demos throughout the event. watch keynote
IMAGE: human.tech booth at WalletCon Cannes, 2026: source
Content
The WaaP vs WaaS series ran through March across @WaaPxyz, covering the fundamental differences between Wallet as a Protocol and Wallet as a Service: custody models, account fragmentation, pricing, and security architecture. The series positioned WaaP as the structural alternative to vendor-locked embedded wallets. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Summary
Q1 2026 was a busy quarter. Products went live, the team showed up on stage, and the ecosystem kept growing.
WaaP shipped its most important launch to date: WaaP CLI brought agent wallets, Permission Tokens, and Human-in-the-Loop custody to production. Sui SDK support expanded the chain footprint. WalletCon put it on stage.
Human Passport continued to prove its value as the identity layer for web3, with a new data oracle integration on Newton, flexible Stamp customisation offer, and a strong push on educational content that established the pluralistic proof-of-personhood narrative.
Human Network went open source, making its threshold cryptography and key generation protocols fully auditable.
And across the ecosystem, The Covenant grew to nearly 24,000 signers, HUMN Season 2 launched, the HUMN token was publicly teased, and Q1 press coverage reached new outlets including DL News, The Street, and HackerNoon.
What's Next
human.tech bridge on Aztec moving toward launch, with the first compliant Ethereum-to-Aztec on-and-off-ramp
WaaP Sui CLI + Permission Tokens public announcement targeting Q2
HUMN points expansion into WaaP activity is in the pipeline
Squid Mode (Ika Network): distributing WaaP's Security Share across Ika's decentralized validator set, upgrading from 2PC to 2PC-MPC and removing the single-TEE trust assumption
Thank you to the builders, partners, and community members who shaped Q1. More to come.
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About human.tech
human.tech is a technology stack for keeping humans in the loop of autonomous systems. We do this in two ways: first, we identify who the humans are with proof of personhood (Human Passport). Second, we keep humans in control by allowing them to create wallets that are safe to use with autonomous software like AI agents and smart contracts (WaaP). Built by Holonym Foundation.
