Holonym Foundation Quarterly Update: Q1 2026

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.

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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 and 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, a self-custodial embedded wallet layer for 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. AI agent wallet infrastructure with Human-in-the-Loop Telegram approvals and 2PC custody. npm i @human.tech/waap-cli ships an agent wallet in under 10 minutes. launch thread
• New Security Feature with Privileges: Privileges are scoped transaction approvals 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 and 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

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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. They can also upvote artifacts, submit original works, and join governance through working groups and curation. Season 2 intentionally rewards curiosity and alignment over fixed grinding. learn more

The Covenant

The Covenant of Humanistic Technology, ten principles for building human-aligned digital systems, continued to grow through Q1. Nearly 24,000 community members signed the declaration and submitted over 10,000 artifacts, now under curation. recap

$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. The token launches later, once the infrastructure it secures is in place. 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 a compliant Ethereum-to-Aztec on-and-off-ramp: users get private balances and transfers on Aztec, applications get regulatory defensibility, and compliance is contract-enforced with no plaintext PII at rest. 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

Intelligence at the Frontier

Frontier Tower is a 16-floor venue in San Francisco where builders, artists, researchers, and founders work on the field's open questions. Alongside Funding the Commons, we sponsored the event that brought together 1,000 builders to explore work across 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 built 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 human.tech 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.

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 privileges 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

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." Agents are being embedded into wallets, trading systems and productivity tools, which changes what their security has to do. He showed how to delegate authority to an AI copilot without giving up the 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. The talk worked through the tension between human control and agent autonomy: why agents need custody to be useful, why blockchains were not built with AI in mind, and how human-bound keys, 2PC-MPC and wallet-as-a-protocol infrastructure 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 6, 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 22, 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

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Human Passport

Human Passport is the identity layer for web3: privacy-preserving, pluralistic proof of personhood used by 2M+ verified accounts across web3. 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. There are no redirects and no pop-ups. Partners add one integration, and verification stays private. 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 protected 150+ campaigns and $512M+ in capital from Sybil attacks. 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

Stats

Where Passport stood at the end of Q1 2026:

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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, so anyone can check the cryptography rather than take our word for it. blog announcement

Reintroducing vOPRF

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

Scale

Where the Network stood at the end of Q1 2026:

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WaaP

WaaP, the human.tech Wallet Protocol, is self-custodial wallet infrastructure using two-party computation (2PC): no single party can sign alone. It serves both apps (via SDK) and AI agents (via CLI). Q1 was WaaP's breakout quarter: Sui SDK shipped, the Agentic CLI launched, and WalletCon put it all on stage.

Product Updates

WaaP on Sui

Shipped February 12, WaaP brought a self-custodial embedded wallet layer to 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. Wallet infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents. npm i @human.tech/waap-cli ships an agent wallet in under 10 minutes, with:

• 2PC custody where no single party can sign alone
• 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

launch thread

Privileges

Scoped transaction approval for dApps and AI agents. Users or agents request a privilege with defined constraints (recipient, chain, spending cap, time limit), get one approval, and qualifying transactions are signed automatically until it 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

Content

The WaaP vs WaaS series ran through March across @WaaPxyz, covering the fundamental differences between WaaP and Wallet-as-a-Service embedded wallets: 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

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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, Privileges, and Human-in-the-Loop custody to production. Sui SDK support expanded the chain footprint, and 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 custom Stamps, 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, a compliant Ethereum-to-Aztec on-and-off-ramp
• WaaP Sui CLI + Privileges public announcement targeting Q2
• HUMN points expansion into WaaP activity is planned
• WaaP 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.

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