HUMAN Protocol creates a new way for people and machines to collaborate. It offers a method to pose questions that machines would struggle to answer without human involvement. For instance, before an AI can recommend shoes, it must first understand which shoe styles people view as similar. With HUMAN, you can submit the question, share the necessary information, and compensate people who contribute to the task. Teams building tools such as product search can use it to assemble new datasets that support artificial intelligence.

The Protocol also supports automated job markets, where human participants handle engaging work and machines take care of repetitive responsibilities. Network participants can use HMT to compensate labor through smart bounties, and reward validators that deliver services to the network.

Key Highlights 

Proven Application

HUMAN-powered applications are already reaching hundreds of millions of people every month. Activities include labeling data, defending against bots, and other use cases. HUMAN is network-agnostic and currently supports Ethereum, Polkadot, Solana, and more.

Empowers Workforces

HUMAN Protocol turns work into tokenized, fungible units of tasks of any scale and with any set of requirements, enabling companies and individual workers to make the most of their resources - independent of any single organization - while using the network to reduce downtime.

Supports Global Job Markets

Helps build decentralized job markets where both parties can exchange value in a safe, trustless manner, without relying on intermediaries. HUMAN Protocol smart bounties enforce the terms to help ensure fair outcomes.

Tech Highlights

Flexible and Universal

Built so you can define almost any type of job.

Trustless Quality Control

Smart bounties make sure Requesters release payment only when work is completed correctly.

Demonstrated Scalability

Groups jobs across networks to scale to billions of tasks.

Federated for Growth

Introducing new applications does not require network consensus.

Evolving Oracles

Users can opt in to new capabilities from job to job.

Multichain Native

Network-agnostic, supporting multiple Layer 1 networks.

Use Cases

Machine Learning

AI needs labeled data. Protocol-based applications provide tooling and connect workforces to dataset labeling tasks. This helps companies use HUMAN APIs to incorporate human perspective into their AI systems. Millions of tasks run through the Protocol each month.

Proof of HUMANity

Blockchains may need to confirm whether a real person is interacting with them. HUMAN supports on-chain verification of humanity to help deter bots. This supports blockchain verification for use cases such as token exchanges, prediction platforms, and more.

Empowering the Gig Economy

Coordinating labor, maintaining quality, and paying workers at scale is challenging. HUMAN lets anyone post a job that a distributed workforce can complete. In principle, nearly any job type can be published on the Protocol, with assessment and compensation handled by software.

Prediction Markets

Prediction markets can be effective, but determining consensus odds for any event is hard. Reliable results require a large set of responses. By leveraging many global contributors, HUMAN allows prediction markets to ask a question and receive odds on the likelihood of an outcome, recorded on the blockchain.

Translation and More

Millions of people perform knowledge tasks that can be described as HUMAN tasks, but finding the right people at the right moment is difficult. Whether it’s translation or transcription, the Protocol supports jobs of many types to get outputs from a workforce matched to the task, with quality and payment ensured by software.