Writing on verifiable human expertise — data provenance and attribution, model training infrastructure, and contributor ownership.https://blog.humanbased.ai/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/xny-protocol-overview/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/xny-protocol-overview/Hand data over and you lose control of it — you cannot even tell a breach from a leak. XnY Protocol keeps the books at the level of a single contribution: fingerprints, shares and grants recorded on a ledger that belongs to no party.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/arweave-uri-before-upload/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/arweave-uri-before-upload/A contributor hits submit and gets a permanent address within seconds — while the file has not reached Arweave yet. The URI can be fixed that early because identity and delivery are separated.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/pricing-the-human-layer/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/pricing-the-human-layer/A full research report: what forty real-world data deals, nine pre-registered experiments, and one adversarial red-team say about when royalties are the right way to pay for data — and how to split them when they are. Published as a formal report, not a summary.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/agentic-pr-quality-crosscheck/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/agentic-pr-quality-crosscheck/A retrospective of two months of Humanbased monorepo PRs and retained Crosscheck logs, with practical findings on PR shape, review cost, model routing, and product opportunities for AI-native engineering teams.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/gasless-adapter/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/gasless-adapter/Gives immutable ERC-20 tokens like $XNY ERC2612/3009-style gasless capabilities through a capability layer that enables legacy tokens to support new standards without requiring upgrades.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/sovereign-data-lineage/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/sovereign-data-lineage/Enable data circulation without relying on platform trust through a decentralized storage architecture combining DIDs, proxy re-encryption, and verifiable credentials.Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/large-model-data-engineering/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/large-model-data-engineering/The core driving force has shifted from computational expansion to knowledge extraction efficiency through four paradigms: large-scale crawling, fine-grained annotation, AI-synthetic data, and human-machine collaboration.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/top-contributors/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/top-contributors/Qualitative insights into contributor motivations, behaviors, and expectations from interviews with eight high-performing airdrop contributors with diverse expertise.Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/open-robotic-data/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/open-robotic-data/Future value lies in high-fidelity, physically complex, and training-ready datasets as basic manipulation tasks become commoditized and major ecosystems consolidate around standardized formats.Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/erc8004-mcp-ethereum/https://blog.humanbased.ai/posts/erc8004-mcp-ethereum/A resume template for AI agents that states who I am, what I can do: a detailed explanation of the ERC-8004 protocol for agent identity, reputation, and validation on Ethereum.Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT