Appendix · 14

Glossary

Appendix · 14

Terms used across the field guide. Use these consistently.

Artefact

A built surface: a website, tool, dashboard, or hub. One of the three expression contexts, along with Comms and IRL.

Circle

A local, self-organising group that takes action on real issues where its members live. How the parallel society gets implemented: self-funded, working solutions, not meetups or community theatre. Flat by design, peers not rank.

Contribution path

Every public surface must point toward work. A page without a contribution path is incomplete.

Contributor bridges

Phrases that move people from passive support into active contribution: “Tools not permission." / "Action not permission.”

Credo

Build the parallel. Prove it in practice. Keep it human. The three-line statement of what Logos does.

Cypherpunk

Someone who defends privacy and freedom in practice, by building, running, teaching, and using the tools rather than by rhetoric. A practice, not an identity or costume.

Field note

A sanitised account of what happened, what was learned, and what comes next. Published when safe.

Four Checks

Build. Protect. Share. Belong. The quick test of whether an output supports Logos. Run before shipping.

Lambda

The operator mark. Used where work happens: usernames, terminal prompts, patches, field manuals. Not decoration.

Legacy names

Older docs, repos, or historical references may use Nomos, Waku, or Codex. Use current Logos module names in new public-facing work. See Stack language under Language.

Logos Basecamp

The user-facing, local-first launcher for the Logos stack. Runs every module on self-controlled hardware from one interface.

Logos Blockchain

The privacy-preserving blockchain module. Previously known as Nomos.

Logos Core

The modular, plugin-based runtime that lets developers build private apps which discover and load the stack modules they need.

Logos Messaging

The private peer-to-peer communication module. Previously part of Waku.

Logos stack

The unified modular stack that includes Logos Blockchain, Logos Messaging, Logos Storage, and supporting runtime components.

Logos Storage

The decentralised storage module. Formerly known as Codex.

Parallel economy

The self-sustaining economic activity of the parallel society: businesses and value created independent of the existing system, so communities never depend on central funds.

Parallel society

What Logos builds: sovereign institutions, sound money, and civic virtue, made outside the existing order rather than reforming it from within.

Privacy posture

The stated rules for a space, event, or output: what is recorded, what requires consent, what is blurred by default, what is not shared. Operational, not decorative.

Register

Whether work is As Logos (ships on a Logos channel or is funded or commissioned by Logos, and follows the full system) or For Logos (everything else, follows the Four Checks). A property of the work, not the person.

Way of life

Logos as embodied operating culture, not taste or costume. The shared practice that brings every expression back to autonomy, fellowship, skill, privacy, and contribution.

Winnable issue

A real, solvable local problem a Circle takes on to create agency and build legitimacy.

Zones

The seven functional areas an event space is built from: Threshold, Table, Wall, Circle, Stage, Kitchen, and Quiet. How many you use scales with the event, the principles stay the same.