The POSTHUMAN validator began its history in 2019, with the validation of the Cyber test network.
Initially, the validator was called Immortal, but after the first jail, it became clear that validator was still far away from immortality, and the Immortal validator was renamed POSTHUMAN.
On January 21, 2021, the POSTHUMAN validator began validating the main network Starname
At the moment (September 2023), POSTHUMAN validates 40+ networks, and is one of the leading validators in terms of the number of individual delegators.
The full list of networks is listed here
At the moment, the POSTHUMAN validator is under the decentralized governance of the POSTHUMAN delegator community.
Decentralized governance occurs using DAS (Decentralized Autonomous Synchronization), by creating and voting on proposals.
POSTHUMAN delegators can make any decision on the development of the POSTHUMAN validator, as well as change any parameters of the validator in any network.
Information about POSTHUMAN DAS can be found here
Information about tokenomics can be found here
Information on how a decentralized validator works can be found here
The core team is responsible for developing the validator and contributing to the development of networks and communities
At the moment, the POSTHUMAN core team consists of 16 people:
- Initially, there was only one person behind the POSTHUMAN validator - Vladi
- After the number of validated main networks reached 13, Albert joined Vladi, taking on the technical side of validation
- The third member of the team was Vova, taking on the responsibility of creating video content
- Afterwards, Valentin joined the team to help with community development, organizing and holding events
- The fifth participant, as an advisor and programmer, was Mikhail
- Afterwards, one after another, Evgeniy joined the team - to work with big data, and Danil - as a designer
- Further, two people immediately joined the core team to help with the development of the community: Ekaterina and Sergey
- The tenth member of the team was Nikita, taking responsibility for participating in testnets
- Vadim joined POSTHUMAN as test-net developer, and became 11th member of core-team
- 12th member of POSTHUMAN core-team is Sergey - full-stack developer, who is responsible for tools and dApps development
- Lucky 13th member of POSTHUMAN core-team is Asa - community developer, who is responsible for english-speaking community development
- In August 2024, Evgen left the core-tem, but Olim and Ann joined the core-team
- In January 2025, Marina and Misha became 15th and 16th members of POSTHUMAN core-team
Throughout its history, the POSTHUMAN validator has been actively involved in the development of networks and communities, making its contribution both in technical and humanitarian terms.
The POSTHUMAN team creates educational video content in English and Russian, organizes events, creates and develops communities, and provides information and technical support for projects at all levels. From the numerous list of contributions, we would like to highlight the following:
- Support and development of Twitter Ecosystem Cosmos
- Support and development of the Russian-speaking community of the Cosmos Ecosystem
- Hosting weekly community video meetings that have been running for over 80 weeks! All recordings can be found here
- Creation of a video educational course Cosmos Academy
A list of services that the POSTHUMAN validator provides to networks can be found here.
You can get acquainted with already made contributions here (this list is constantly updated).
In addition to the development of specific networks and communities, the POSTHUMAN validator is involved in the development of Web3 in general, and is one of the initiators and co-founders of Distributed Validators Synctems, Validators Schools and Ambassadors Schools
The POSTHUMAN validator is actively involved in decentralized governance, and is also engaged in the research and development of decentralized governance models.
You can read a research on the problems of decentralized governance in PoS-networks here.
You can watch POSTHUMAN's speech at the Validator Commons meeting here
You can watch POSTHUMAN's speech on the evolution of decentralized governance here
Also, the POSTHUMAN validator is actively involved in developing its own community: