2025 marked a new era for Logos.
✵ We consolidated the stack
✵ Announced the testnet + node programme
✵ Logos Circles 0 → 23 cities
✵ The community built tools for activists
✵ Farewell to Westphalia went live
✵ Parallel Society began to form
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Can people create new worlds when the old ones stop serving them?
Logos co-founder @jarradhope_ joins us to explore the history of exit, exile, and access - and how blockchain communities are redefining what it means to opt out.
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Argentina is no stranger to parallel systems. Stablecoins support a $300bn+ grassroots economy to protect people against a hyperinflationary peso.
At Devconnect, we met with builders continuing this tradition locally and others striving for global change.
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Great to see the great privacy awakening in real time. The next step is to go further beyond and discover the massive wealth of open source R&D and tech the IFT and Vac have produced throughout the years and put it to good use in this noblest of causes. We're here to guide you.
7 days left to build privacy tools for the people.
Take part in our RealFi Hack bounties, w/ @FundingCommons and @TorProject:
→ Logos x Tor: Privacy Infrastructure
→ Resilient Activist Technology
Use @waku_org or @ethnimbus.
Bounties close 16 Oct.
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The EU’s “Chat Control” legislative proposal violates fundamental rights…
Rights that are supposedly protected under the EU Charter: privacy, freedom of expression, and the protection of personal data.
It’s framed as a measure to fight online child abuse. However, in practice, it mandates mass surveillance of private communications, including encrypted chats.
Platforms could be forced to perform client-side scanning, meaning your messages would be inspected before they’re encrypted.
As we’ve seen repeatedly, legislation passed to address one concern is routinely used for purposes beyond its original scope. The USA’s Patriot Act, for example, was passed as a national security measure but resulted in the warrantless wiretapping of millions of US and non-US citizens.
If passed, Chat Control won’t just affect EU citizens either. Global platforms providing services to Europeans will have to comply, meaning surveillance mechanisms will extend far beyond Europe.
And because you can’t build a backdoor that only the “good guys” can use, it represents an enormous security threat, too.
Our digital liberties depend on us taking a stand against such legislative overreach. Together, we can build platforms and tools that enable communication without central chokepoints that efforts like Chat Control target.
We’re working with @FundingCommons and @torproject to encourage the development of tools that uphold our fundamental right to express ourselves, free from surveillance and censorship – core values underlying the development of the Logos technology stack.
Join the RealFi virtual hackathon and hack for freedom: https://t.co/ClfnRTvK4t