Understanding Vortex: The Future of Human Node Governance

so we had a lot of very beautiful presentations today my presentation is not going to be that

beautiful partly because uh well I didn't have enough time or because I'm lazy I don't know but I hope that it's

going to be very informative because today I'm be I'm going to be talking about the upcoming human Noe governance

and how it's different uh we call it Vortex and uh as you can judge by the name here it's not the first iteration

actually it's yeah okay it sounds like a first iteration but it's actually not the first iteration and uh today I'm

going to delve into how Vortex is structured how do we see one human one vote governance happening on blockchain

which um might have been imitated before but in our case it's going to be directly connected Ed with the notion

that one human can only deploy one node on the our Network so without further Ado let me

start and uh actually I'm going to be asking a lot of questions to you guys today so what is Vortex basically Vortex

is uh the governing system that is going to be run by our human node network uh and uh those people who are engaged in

human note Network right now as validators are going to be uh like are going to become the main governing body

right so right now this decision making is centralized right because well we're uh a new startup it's we're only four

years old and our main net has been running for two years only that's like not a lot based on the consensus

mechanism that we've introduced we we are still kind of well we're hopeful that everything works fine but but who

knows like there's the codee based is huge the approach that we're taking to security is very Innovative because as

you might know there's no mining equipment or staking involved in human note at all so there were a lot of like

challenges on how to build up the governance system in in human note that would be Democratic that would be

egalitarian and not stupid at the same time the last thing is the most hard so uh let me start with the core principles

and uh by understanding this core principles you will understand how the whole system is

built um so the main principle and I would say the cental principle is cognitoy and uh I think like if you have

read that the paper that was released in May you probably might know what it is if you don't know what it is is uh it's

a form of governance that we refer to as the governance of Merit and creativity uh so of course you have

heard about meritocracy Pro probably where um those people who are like experts or have experience in some kind

of work or field uh get the Reigns to govern on something cracy is a governance um that uh only orients

itself to your intellectual creativity and Merit but I will delve in into it a little bit later the other three core

principles are local determinism and I think it's a very important one because you see well I it's my personal belief

of course that ideology does not equal good Solutions why it's pretty simple let me ask you a question how many

politicians do you know that are experts in something other than politics do you know

any who Tik toks right pretzel pretzels good nice any other examples of politicians

being experts okay he does judo okay but if you if you think about it right so you

can probably stand anywhere on the ideological Spectrum you can be a leftist you can be a rtist you can be a

Centrist but if we're talking about real life right we're talking real life problems we are expecting some results

from our problem solving right so our parliaments our leaders are trying to make law on very ious fields of Our

Lives you know Financial technological Fields um I don't know medicine and um of course they're handed

documents by the experts you know to make a decision but who knows what processes were involved in those

documents right how those documents were forged how did those documents end up in front of those politicians you don't

know so we're living in a world basically where our politic s are elected by popular vote and they're not

experts in anything they have to make decisions on unless it involves politics right themselves so local determinism is

um well it's a term basically that I refer to is if it works if it solves the problems that we have and it bring

results right now I don't care where it is is it's communist if it's oligarch I don't care if it solves the problems and

brings results that we need right now it's good um the fourth um uh core principle

is the principle of constant deterrence now of course you've probably all heard about checks and balances right uh where

do checks and balances work any system they work in do they work where

in Banks checks you mean uh like checks that you write out so uh name me a system that was not disbalanced

in that you know tried to implement checks and balances no there's always a power grab

there is always a testure there is always something happening inside and the biggest reason why is that the

system cannot protect you it cannot prevent centralization of power the only thing that really can protect you is the

you so a constant deterrence is your responsibility as a people who are watching over democracy and uh like uh

liberalization of uh you know our everyday lives it's up to you to find those dangerous centralization points

and engage them to change the systems so for example most of the democracies of the liberal world were formed

when their Basics were formed when their divisions to branches when they were formed who can tell

me in the 20th centuries some some of them in the 19th centuries right yes has a lot of things changed in

our world since then so it's it's not about the system it's about the way system can maintain

its speed of evolution uh compared to how power centralizes in it and uh constant

deterrence is up to the people to find those dangerous centralization points address them and change system

systematically uh you know like a very fast way and U the last last but not the

least is the power Detachment resilience so it's a thing actually that more corresponds with the um well of course

real life uh parliaments and governmental bodies but it's a thing that exist in every single blockchain

out there what does it mean so imagine you had a blockchain that would declare guys we have one human one vote

governing body right but we are running on proof of stake don't do we see something strange

in this or like for example we have 20 validators that have concentrated all the stake the most of it in their

hands and they're really holding the power in their hands but to feel more democratic to feel more egalitarian of

course they would create a one human one vote body the question is will this governing body

consisting of one human with one votes will have real power or not will

it it will not why because if something goes wrong in the system that doesn't satisfy the requirements and the like

targets set by the 20 most powerful validators they can always overrun it they can always modify the state they

can do whatever they want because there is a power Detachment you can have 1,000 human humans in your governing body

egalitarian having the same vote but when your infrastructure is uh power is divided differently than your governing

body it has no like sense at all because the real power remains somewhere else and uh the core principle of human not

is to to evade this power Detachment resilience why because one human one node and one vote and there's no way to

concentrate this power unless you're trying to soak puppet of course and unless you're trying to buy someone out

but there is no power um uh Detachment in terms of having 20 concentrated validators and running at a legari

facade on top now that you know the core principles let's deep deep dive a little bit into

what is Vortex and how it's going to be run so um you know that um not only uh blockchain projects but most of the

governments out there Str struggle with plutocracies when uh basically wealth dictates policy and very influential

companies and people are able to funnel their funds into the policies that satisfies them right it's a big problem

the second biggest problem is of course populism populism is like would you call a um a Bad Doctor solution it's like oh

you don't want to have this um serious changes or take this Bad Medicine okay take this candy you know although you

have a diabetes or something like this you know it's like spoiling the children once and once again to gain the popular

vote and the popular vote is the real like problem of populism so that there's like one day or several days when there

is an election for the person or a party that would just tell you that all your fantasies and everything that you want

to have in this life is going to be solved and done by a person has does nothing about what's really going on you

know in his institutions or on the ground in like in 95% of the cases the third thing of course is U

lack of uh like engagement we call it the vulture's apathy it's like uh when you want to have a very engaged

governing body consisting of a lot of people expressing their opinions engaging in governance all the time but

they're really they don't really believe in uh the strength of their own voice Voice or they're apolitical and because

of the voter's apathy there's less and less and less less people participating in governance and that's why it becomes

centralized and um yeah of course all of the things from like PL plutocracy uh populism and voter apathy and many many

other things I'm not just going to uh talk about all of them here bring centralization risks and um let's delve

into how how human noes Vortex tries to address it so we have um different kinds of roles

in human node uh we have uh human nodes that are just running our nodes right and uh uh in the future of course the

governor role will be introduced so Governors are basically any human nodes that any day decide that we want to be

engaged in the governance and take big part in it you don't need to stake any money you don't need to have any mining

equipment right you just verify that you're a real human being express your desire to you know I want to make

decisions in in the financial Network that we're running and boom you're a governor and um there are four things

that Governors are will be orienting themselves to by which will understand that the engagement of the government

Governor himself and the position he's taking in this structure and I'll get to the positioning a little bit later so

will be um looking at of course the proof of time it's uh how for how long you've been running the node how long

you are participating in the governance one month or two years and U what biometric technology allows us to do is

to understand that okay we don't know really who you are but we know that you're the same person

coming and voting from the same account for a long time and um here we go to the proof of devotion like uh how engaged

you were in the governance how many proposals did you make how many um debates did you engaged in as we'll have

this onchain data gathered about like public addresses of the human note Network engaged in governance process

will be able to tell you know how much contribution into terms of governmental devotion you have personally given to a

human note and when I'm saying you personally I'm talking about every single one of you running a validator

can will be able to become a part of this without like uh any like wealth barriers or

anything the third thing is of course that I already mentioned is the proof of human existence like um is the same

thing as civil resistance is in this case we will be like if we found find anybody trying to um maintain Cil

networks which will be of course in our case impossible uh will from many sides do

whatever we can to bash them out and um um the fourth uh thing is and I I think personally it's one of the most

important things is that there will be a form of barrier an intellectual one for obtaining voting rights in the field of

expertise that the governor is good in and uh uh let me explain in more detail so the structure will be uh like this uh

here you can see like the human note chain and we will have like three major parts and an app so there will be a

proposal pool that'll be done uh to filter out proposals coming from inside the Dow and outside the Dow uh there are

is going to be a Vortex it's a Vortex inside of Vortex I bear with me Vortex where the voting on the proposals will

is going to be conducted by the people who are experts in one field or another and there's going to be a formation we

call it a place where we can assemble teams and budgets based on the proposals that were accepted in vortex

and of course we're going to uh build a very comfortable dowo applications where our uh human nodes will be able to

engage as Governors and it's going to be um like all this uh Parts like proposal pool Vortex and formation are going to

be part of the app um and um uh there are going of course going to be like governing tears of people but

you got to understand our main notion is that one human has only one vote all the time your money doesn't care the amount

of time you spend at the doll doesn't matter you always have one vote you personally and it does not grow in

strength at all what changes is what you can propose for example if you come and you

are in like a newcomer um you can propose only product related changes marketing branding or or

something else but as you progress through the tiers that you can see right here the preposition rights will be

opening to you and um um I don't know if you can see properly but there are certain

requirements that you have to meet most of them of course are running a node is a good one um uh then making proposals

and being accepted running a node for several years being AC to government for various types of ear ears for different

tears and as you saw on the slide before basically when you reach the last tier the citizen tier you can make proposals

on eth changing the governmental structure changing the core principles of uh um the Dao itself and even if

you're a node Runner and a govern governor for four years and you have like exceeding reputation in various

Fields uh of expertise that you're doing decision making in your voting power is always equal to one not more as you can

now compare it to other blockchains out there Pro work and pro stake blockchains who are for a long time running the

experiment of Dow and governance and what is their main problem who can tell me

what is their main problem why why the Voting is not equal because it's connected to the

Token so the cumos governance will be disconnected from the token the token doesn't matter token is a separate

Market thing it has its own life the governance is egalitarian based and properly democratic and your strength

does not change that's the main thing now let me delve into cognitoy because it's I think it's very important

to understand what cocr is once again it's a governance by Pro proven creativity and expertise and um the main

reasoning for this is that we wanted to ensure that there are no like there are no nonexperts involved in taking like

serious decisions and relevant matters when we were talking about lives of hundreds and thousands people when we're

talking about you know economy and financial Network that would probably influence millions of people one day we

want you know decisions to be taken by experts who know stuff about what they're thinking about what they doing

and not some populist leaders that were elected I know school election presidents oh a popular guy a popular

girl no no no this will be done by proper experts in separate Chambers and uh um we

introduce specialization Chambers so usually uh governance in uh crypto has one or two Chambers they would do like a

one chamber where wealth is decided by token uh I mean the voting power is decided by wealth they would do one

egalitarian chamber when there's one human one vote but you could pretty much go inside the chamber just putting money

and boom you're a governor in our case we want to ensure that there are separate Chambers on separate things

like development separately and in development there are many other Chambers separately inside marketing

separately Finance separately law separately and we want to make sure that only people that have

proven their expertise in this field have the power to make a vote on the decisions that will affect the system in

this expertise um but of course there's the general chamber and uh the general

chamber is like U um the place that encompasses all of the governors inside the system all the

experts from all the fields in one chamber and um of course based on uh you know our hypothesis and you can read it

by the way the paper is out um any decision in the general chamber so that this this thing is is still egalitarian

and Democratic will and can overrule any decision of the specialization chamber um so proposal pools are a part

of every single chamber because uh you know you can be spammed with proposal and uh there have been attacks like this

on several Dows out there and um we W want to make the voting process more orderly we want it to be um on more like

engaging topics that really interest the community so what we do we introduce the Quorum of attention we call it so the

proposal must first achieve uh attention from some percentage of Governors here we we take

22% before going to the vote and then you will have to achieve another quum of voting to actually get accepted or not

accepted um the voting mechanisms in all and in the specialization Chambers and in

general CH Chambers are going to uh require 33% of acting Governors for to reach the Quorum and it will require a

quality uh majority of 66% plus one person for any proposal to be approved not

51% um and as I mentioned before the the third part is formation it's a place where not just Governors right but any

human node out there can come and U declare his specialization propose himself for a role in some uh proposal

project that was accepted by The Vortex mechanism and uh it's a place where people will be able to you know uh

propose various roles it was place to basically assemble teams to realize the proposals that were accepted in

Vortex and um let's talk about several advantages as mentioned before so A specialized governance we are talking

about the governance of experts um now blockchain and our public registered blockchain gives us um you know

transparency and we can see like all engagements we can see wallets of our governments we can see which governers

vote for what things together so we can like not just you know somebody vote somebody in the Parliament and we always

see like two results no we're going to be able to see everything that's happening on chain and uh it's going to

give us a more transparent picture about what's happening in the governance of human out and um adaptive structure

because you know there's a lot of activity you have to be an active Governor to be counted in the Quorum

will give us an Adaptive structure to address the constant determin uh principle that we were talking about in

the beginning and um of course I was not able to like fully um address the whole

Vortex here today because it's a giant system and in 20 minutes it's impossible there's a big paper on it and if you

feel interested on how it really works in Precision you can go to our website and read about it but um we want to

bring a system that uh in where like intellectual Merit and creativity drives the decision making and um as a like one

of the favorite words in crypto a few years ago it brings sharding to decision making it's like you don't have one

chamber full of populist voters voting on stuff they don't know about it brings you separate Chambers based on

specializations with experts that make fast but very weighted decisions on the things that they know and uh we want to

see how this structure of governance will flourish in an egalitarian system such as human

note um like I already talked a a lot about how like Vortex is different but uh here I want to just refurnish it once

more so a cottoy based governments expert driven we are have are gathering proof of time and pro devotion not like

basing anything on wealth the vote is always equal to one um specialization Chambers will allow to

Shard the the governance um egalitarian voting power never changes and proposal filtering has a separate attention

Quorum and voting mechanism is a separate Quorum requiring active participation um and uh we have we're

going to have formation as a built-in uh like uh base to assemble your team and receive grants

from the human old Foundation as well so yeah like maybe not just proposals for changing the structure of human o itself

and struct changing the principles of human o but also a venue to propose like projects to propose various solution

that would require budgeting and team to realize them and um like Cil resistance of course at its core which is inherent

from the Biometrics and again again adaptive structure and transparency for constant deterrence constant deterrence

will bring us real egalitarian democracy one day and hopefully the experiment actually that we're carrying here out on

human Noe in 20 or 30 year times will become useful data for political scientists to create proper programs for

governments that will exist in the future and hopefully our experience today will help them and fuel the fire

of the change that will happen in the future of course because how many liquid democracies are there on the

plan you know Shan talked about liquid democracies in uh his presentations how many liquid democracies do we have like

liqu democracies when you don't have a one or two days of voting where you can take your vote change a candidate change

the party whenever you want how many do you think there are on planet Earth in 201 first century in in

2024 zero correct yes so and uh um one of the fewer steps and one of the fewer experiments it it all begins when in is

humanos fors so remember this and this is what we're going to do thank you very much