State of the Logos Network: August 2025
Your roundup of recent developments from the Logos community and ecosystem
Logos
Cultivating community
Logos is a movement committed to reshaping how people come together and organise. Achieving this vision depends on the dedication of an engaged, motivated community. If our principles resonate with you, we invite you to contribute your skills and creativity. We recognise and support those who choose to build with us.
We’ve just launched a community contributions portal, which makes it easy to submit proposals to make technical and non-technical contributions to Logos (including writing for Logos Press Engine). Check out the Logos Contribute portal and start contributing to the Logos movement today!
Learning
Farewell to Westphalia
We’re thrilled to reveal that Farewell to Westphalia, coauthored by Logos cofounder Jarrad Hope and author of Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow, will be available in paperback, ereader edition, and as a free download on 16 September.
The book presents blockchain technology as infrastructure for a peaceful revolution in the way we organise and cooperate. It opens with a critique of the current nation-state system, arguing that new global issues are forcing nations to cede sovereignty to non-state entities. It then makes the case for blockchain’s potential to bring transparency, efficiency, and accountability to all levels of governance. Learn more.
Preorders for the ereader edition are live now. If you own a Kindle and are interested in the book’s ideas, please consider preordering – it will really help boost the book’s chart position, exposing it to more people who may find value in its content.
As 16 September approaches, we’re ramping up promotional activities, including appearances by the authors on relevant podcasts, like the one below. We’re also appealing to the Logos community to help us get Farewell to Westphalia into legacy education institutions. If you have relevant contacts from universities or libraries, or if you know of any appropriate bookshops that might want to stock the book, please email pressengine@logos.co.
Logos Press Engine
We’re thrilled to see more community members contributing to Logos Press Engine. We’re currently working with two contributors to publish their writing. They’ll be available to read on the LPE very soon. Thanks for the submissions, JosiahWarren and Severoni!
If you have something to add to the alternative governance conversation, why not submit a Logos Press Engine article proposal? Head to the new Logos Contribute portal to start contributing to Logos Press Engine.
X Spaces
Logos hosts regular X Spaces with those at the forefront of governance and technological innovation. August’s Spaces tackled such topics as stablecoins, CBDCs, cognitive sovereignty, free media, and freethinking in cyberstates and blockchain communities, with widely known speakers in the liberty space and the crypto community. Guests included entrepreneur, investor, and activist Aaron Day, Jason Bassler and Matt Savoy from the Free Thought Project, and cognitive scientist Anna Riedl.
Follow Logos on X to listen in and join these fascinating discussions every Thursday.
Logos IRL
Logos Circles
Logos Circles are regular meetups held in various hubs around the world and in cyberspace. Their aim is to expand the Logos community and identify issues that Logos technologies and grassroots collective action can address.
Last month, a new Circle formed – Logos Circle: Los Angeles. Hosted at the Arts District Brewing Company, the event was attended by a good mix of developers and non-developers. Alongside conversations about Logos and our goals, we were delighted to see one attendee dive right into Waku, spinning up an nwaku node and praising the project’s documentation. We also started a book-sharing initiative, with five copies of Farewell to Westphalia loaned out, and those receiving it asked to write a message in the cover for its next recipient.
Read more about Logos Circle: Los Angeles and stay tuned for more information about the next LA Circle via Discord and the Logos X account.
In August, Logos Circle: Lisbon connected with the community of Quinta do Mocho, a public housing neighbourhood with a strong African diasporic identity and vibrant underground culture. We explored opportunities to collaborate on a creative hub, Parallel Society side events, and integrating local freelancers into the Talude decentralised marketplace.
The next Lisbon Circle will be held at the Well Read book shop again on 1 October. More information.
Logos Circle: Zanzalu moved forward with its initiative to supply the Straight Learning Center in Zanzibar with the computing equipment mentioned in last month’s State of the Logos Network. Ten Raspberry Pis were delivered to the school this week, and all further donations will go toward securing one month’s rent payment for this fantastic educational initiative. If you have something to spare, donate now.
Barcelona is about to become the latest city to play host to a Logos Circle. We’re inviting local cypherpunks, technologists, artists, journalists, activists, charities, and anyone interested in rebuilding civil society in the area to join us at the AKASHA Hub on 9 September. Expect an evening of discussions, collaboration, and planning grassroots solutions to issues facing residents of the Catalan capital. More information and register your interest.
This month will also see the return of Logos Circle: Brno, which will be held at the Pivnice U Tygra gastropub on 11 September. If you're in the area, head over to meet like-minded people committed to leveraging technologies to defend our liberties. Learn more and register.
In addition to Logos Circle: Barcelona, a new Logos Circle will form in the Nigerian city of Benin on 12 September. Hosted at the Magnitron Blockchain Solution & Academy, we invite anyone interested in our principles and applying our technologies to winnable, local issues to join the event. Learn more and register.
Logos Circle: Online is a regular meetup held on X Spaces. The events, held every Tuesday, have brought Circle founders from LA, London, and Africa together to discuss progress toward solving winnable issues in their local communities. Our online circle has grown significantly in the two months since launching the initiative, showing that those in the community and beyond are excited by our movement and building a real community around it. Alongside regular updates from IRL Circles, we’ve discussed Farewell to Westphalia, the meaning crisis, left versus right paradigm, political identity, token-economic models, and more.
Follow Logos on X and join the next Logos Circle: Online this coming Tuesday.
Parallel Society
We’re thrilled to reveal the date for next year’s Parallel Society: 6–7 March 2026, in Lisbon, Portugal. The event is an international, multi-site convergence of internet pioneers, open-source innovators, underground movements, experimental governance, and bold new cultural imagination.
Parallel Society is more than a festival; it’s a countercultural gathering – a collectively organised, living ecosystem where music, art, and technology intersect. Rooted in innovation, autonomy, and the underground spirit, it is a space for creativity without boundaries. The not-for-profit event will be run by and for the community around it.
Community shoutouts
Like any movement, Logos exists and grows through the dedication of its community. If contributing to a better future inspires you, we’d be glad to have you on board.
Every month, we highlight individuals who make an exceptional impact, whether by advancing Logos’ technology or strengthening the wider movement.
In August, we celebrated:
- Severoni for their submission to Logos Press Engine and for getting Farewell to Westphalia to professors at GISMA Business School and the University of Osnabrück.
- JosiahWarren for contributing to Logos Press Engine.
- Paschal for kicking off the FundBrave initiative over on the Logos Forum. Check it out and get involved.
- Yanis for all his help in facilitating the Straight Training Center to buy the computing equipment mentioned in last month’s State of the Logos Network.
- Xav for building out Ethos, a web crawler and API for aggregating and serving digital rights organisations' publications built on Codex.
- All the community members who attended or joined the conversation during Logos Spaces.
- Everyone who brought their enthusiasm and passion to an in-person Logos Circles meetup.
- Everyone who has already preordered Farewell to Westphalia.
Looking to be featured in a community spotlight? Contribute something meaningful to our mission via the Logos Contribute portal. If you’d like input on a project you’re developing, post it on the Logos Forum and share the link in Discord to connect with others who can support it.
Technology development
Waku
- Safe integrated Waku with its Harbour platform to enable decentralised onchain multisig operations for its users.
- Published an article detailing the first steps towards incentivising service provision on Waku and laying the groundwork for a decentralised service marketplace.
- Released js-waku SDK v0.0.34, which includes faster peer exchange, continuous peer queries, and improved local peer discovery.
- Began hosting regular vibe-coding livestreams and published a retrospective on key learnings from the Waku virtual offsite.
Waku’s August monthly update provides a more detailed account of the team’s recent progress. If you’re a developer, get involved and build Waku with us.
Codex
- Collaborated with Qubetics on integrating decentralised storage for their AI product stack.
- Guru integrated Codex with Waku and Status Network to deliver an early proof-of-concept for an onchain feedback exchange and management platform.
- Non-incentivised testnet has been paused as Codex shifts its focus towards core protocol design and specifications.
Codex’s August monthly update provides a more detailed account of the team’s recent progress. If you’re a developer, get involved and build Codex with us.
Nomos
- Nomos v1 specifications are now complete, serving as the blueprint for initial mainnet launch and a reference for internal development and external communication.
- Bedrock's consensus and cryptography were advanced with significant performance and resilience improvements, and implementation of zero-knowledge components is proceeding rapidly.
- Infrastructure progress focused on NAT connectivity with NAT-PMP/PCP support, gateway change detection, expanded integration testing, and new API protections for scaling.
Nomos’ August monthly update provides a more detailed account of the team’s recent progress. If you’re a developer, get involved and build Nomos with us.
We see the rise of blockchain-based governance as inevitable and need developers, designers, writers, and all forward-thinkers who care about new governance models to help us shape what comes next. Contribute to our open-source projects on GitHub, craft and share our vision on socials, or join the conversation on Discord. Be part of the next wave of governance innovation now.
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