State of the Logos Network: October 2026
Your roundup of recent developments from the Logos social movement and tech stack
Field Station builds the parallel in Rajasthan, Nedu’s story tackles corruption, Nick Merrill shares his plight, the Museum of Civil Liberties opens to community curation, and more. Logos Blog recalls the biggest movement news from October 2026.
Field Station / Rajasthan: A living experiment in parallel society building
In October, Logos and Zu-Grama brought 30 builders, researchers, activists, and community organisers together for Field Station / Rajasthan, an eight-day experiment in parallel organising at Dhun, a regenerative farm in Jaipur district. Through living, working, and building together, residents explored what a parallel society could look like in practice: communities with the tools and shared responsibility to organise, cooperate, and solve problems for themselves.
The residency connected that mission to local challenges, producing 15 projects, using Logos Basecamp, four winning prototypes and eight submissions for the Zu-Grama d/acc track. From the winners, Offline Zcash explores private payments without an internet connection; Bosphorus enables private lending inside Logos Basecamp; Pukaar lets residents report issues and verify completed repairs; and Dhun Commons provides a shared treasury and coordination tool for farmers and land stewards.
Each winning team will receive milestone-based grant funding and mentoring from Logos and Zu-Grama to further develop its prototype. Connecting the projects with Logos Circles will give local communities opportunities to help shape and use the tools, extending the experiment beyond the residency. The wider cohort will continue working together through reviews, monthly meet-ups, and shared follow-up builds.
You can learn more about Field Station / Rajasthan and the projects that emerged from it in upcoming articles and case studies on Logos Blog.
Nick Merrill: From Fighting Surveillance to Building Alternatives
Last month, we spoke with Nick Merrill, the internet service provider who challenged an FBI demand for customer records, resulting in a gag order that prevented him from discussing it. In the interview, Nick recounts his decade-long legal battle and how it shaped his work building tools to protect people’s privacy.
Surveillance agencies will keep seeking access to our data. Nick’s experience shows why privacy must be built into the infrastructure we use, limiting what can be collected, exposed, or handed over in the first place.
Experience corruption through Nedu’s choices
“Life’s Choices” continues with Nedu, a young non-profit worker determined to improve his community in Lagos, Nigeria. You make his major decisions as a local clean up grows into an ambition to make changes at the national level, navigating demands for bribes, funding with strings attached, and pressure to stay quiet when money goes missing. His story explores how corruption constrains even our best intentions, and why we need systems that make abuse harder to conceal.
Nedu completes the Present chapter of the “Past. Present. Future.” initiative. Next, we look ahead to the Future, exploring the value of our money in the years to come. Look out for more information.
For now, play Nedu’s story and see where your decisions take him.
Help curate the Museum of Civil Liberties
In September, we launched the Museum of Civil Liberties, an online archive of major events that shaped history and resulted in the stripping of our personal freedoms. We’re now asking visitors to contribute new exhibits to the museum to bring light to more memories that are too important to be forgotten.
Tech highlights
In October, the technical teams focused on strengthening and measuring what shipped with Testnet v0.3. After brief disruption to the testnet, decentralised sequencing was hardened to function better under restarts.
Benchmarks confirmed service discovery reliability, with services offered by only one node in 200 consistently discovered in under a second and a half. Separately, the price feed stayed within 0.5% of the market in 99.75% of cases across 20 days of data.
The Nimbos client also began sharing blocks and transactions across the network, a step towards having more than one independent implementation of the software running.
Contributors opened a discussion on how prepared Logos would be in the event that today’s cryptography is broken by quantum computing sooner than expected, responding to a call from the wider industry to take the risk seriously.
Stay tuned for the October Logos developer update, which will go into more detail and be live very soon.
IRL / Upcoming
Freequencies gears up for round two
The next edition of Freequencies will take place at Damas in Lisbon on 25 November to advance the sovereign coordination tool being built.
Expect a round-table discussion on parallel organising within the local scene, with input from the participating collectives, promoters, and event organisers building for the underground the initiative supports.
There will be live performances by Perolidade and Oseias. Also, Collective Unconscious and Postcarbon will present Radio-Stesia, a new audiovisual installation centred around biology, technology, coding, and absurdism.
We’ll be sharing more details ahead of the event, so stay tuned.
Logos Circles
October highlights
Logos Circles are open, community-driven spaces where people come together to address challenges in their local communities. Through grassroots collaboration, they create practical solutions, build connections with the broader movement, and use Logos technologies wherever they can strengthen and support their efforts.
More about Circles / Find a Circle near you / Propose a new Circle
In October, Circles formed in:
/ Delhi / Wukari / Portharcourt / Awka / Lagos / Zaria / Yola / Kano / Ruse / Zanzibar / Ede / Abuja / Maiduguri / Kampala / Khartoum / Gombe / Jos / Benin City / Calabar / Katsina / Monrovia / Kaduna / Sokoto / Zaria / Warri / Minna / Aba / Lokoja / Lagos / Zanzibar / Enugu / Damaturu / Bauchi / Algiers / Maraba / Keffi
Check the Logos Forum for individual progress updates on each Circle’s winnable issues.
Logos Circle / Kaduna welcomes students back to school
In October, Logos Circle / Kaduna completed its monthly winnable issue with a back-to-school outreach at Gadol-Chen Academy Nursery and Secondary Education. The Circle engaged more than 200 students and distributed over 200 exercise books, 50 maths sets, over 80 pairs of socks, 400 pens, and four whiteboards to support learning.
Alongside the materials, the Circle introduced students to Logos and discussed education, teamwork, and how people can work together to address community challenges. Coordinated and supported by DJFL Foundation, with additional writing materials from Pristine High School, the outreach brought together local partners to meet practical school needs and encourage students to take an active role in their communities.
Logos Circle / City Keffi expands access to menstrual health education
On 31 October, Logos Circle / Keffi held its Period with Dignity initiative in the Highcourt community in Keffi, Nasarawa State. Three Circle volunteers delivered sessions in English and Hausa for 35 teenage girls, covering menstrual health, hygiene, and common misconceptions. The outreach also included practical demonstrations of sanitary pad use and provided menstrual hygiene kits to every participant.
Open discussions gave participants space to raise personal concerns and ask things they had previously felt unable to discuss. Questions about affordable alternatives to disposable pads highlighted the financial barriers some girls face, reinforcing the need to combine education with practical support. In response to participants’ requests, the Circle plans to organise a follow-up session and seek partnerships with schools and healthcare professionals to sustain the initiative.
Logos Circles / November
Logos Circles are already planned for November in:
- / Mumbai (4 Nov): Get involved.
- / Maiduguri (4 Nov): Get involved.
- / Los Angeles (4 Nov): Get involved.
- / Uyo (6 Nov): Get involved.
- / Kano (7 Nov): Get involved.
- / Portharcourt (7 Nov): Get involved.
- / Jigawa (7 Nov): Get involved.
- / Kampala (14 Nov): Get involved.
- / Awka (14 Nov): Get involved.
- / Jos (26 Nov): Get involved.
Several Logos Circles are still finalising their November meetups. For the latest updates, check the Logos events calendar or the Circles discussion channel later in the month.
No Circle in your area yet? Start one.
Logos Media
Blog
The Logos Blog shares technical updates, movement news, and longer-form perspectives on parallel organising and the ideas that shape it. If you have a topic or point of view you’d like to contribute, send us a proposal.
In October, we published:
- Mitigating Hazards from Inside and Outside Transactions with PriFi
- Setting the Collective Action Snowball in Motion: A Journey in Liberland
- EmPoWering: Joining Logos Blockchain Without an Intermediary
- PriFi: Security and Privacy Against Transactional Hazards
- Nick Merrill: The FBI Letter He Couldn’t Tell Anyone About
Local Area Network
The October edition of Local Area Network, the Logos zine, is out now. Inside: stories about Logos Circle / Benin Circle paying medical bills so two families could get discharged from hospital, Logos Circle / Idaban cleaning up its community environment without waiting for permission, Logos Circle / Kampala moving books onto Logos Blockchain, and information about mining Logos Testnet tokens via EmPoWering.
Local Area Network publishes every month and documents the movement. It brings together stories from Logos Circles, practical uses of Logos technology, and arguments about the systems we’re building and those we’re leaving behind. It’s a look at how people are putting these ideas into practice and what they’re learning along the way.
Read Local Area Network 02, print it, and pass it on.
Logos Broadcast Network
Every month, the Logos Broadcast Network connects voices from throughout the movement, creating space to share knowledge, ideas, and diverse perspectives. Its programming spans community discussions, developer-focused livestreams, explorations of new approaches to coordination, and in-depth conversations about the Logos stack and the technologies shaping its development.
Check the Logos Broadcast Network calendar to see upcoming streams.
Ideas
Each Thursday, the Logos Broadcast Network brings together voices from across the movement and allied organisations to exchange ideas and perspectives. These discussions explore the principles behind parallel societies, reclaiming agency, and protecting freedoms through decentralised, local-first technologies.
On the last Thursday of each month, the Sovereignty Superspace welcomes Parallel Society coalition partners and leading voices in tech and activism to explore strategies for parallel organising.
October streams included:
- Agorism & the Crypto-Anarchist Toolkit (with Sal the Agorist)
- Debasement and Decline: Rome, the Dollar, and the Parallel Society (with Metellus Pius)
- Sovereignty Superspace (with Jarrad Hope, Amir Taaki, Harry Halpin, and Sal the Agorist)
Follow Logos on X or YouTube to join these discussions every Thursday.
Technical
The Logos Broadcast Network also bridges the gap between developers and the broader community through regular technical livestreams.
October’s sessions included:
- Tech Update (proof-of-work onboarding, RLN, decentralised sequencing)
- Dev Club (proof-of-work onboarding, RLN by default, private multisig)
- Tech Update (Testnet v0.3 restart)
- Dev Club (sandboxed AI agents)
- Dev Club (decentralised 3D printing)
- Dev Club (private group coordination in Logos Basecamp)
Follow Logos Tech on X and subscribe to the Logos YouTube channel to take part in all the technical streams.
Builder Meetup
Logos Builder Meetups are bi-weekly sessions to help the community better understand, use, and build with the Logos stack. Speak directly with Logos engineers, ask questions, and develop a deeper understanding of the technology stack.
Join every other Friday at 12:00 UTC. The next is 6 November.
Circles
Logos Circle / Online brings together people working to address challenges in their communities each week. Sessions offer practical advice on launching a Logos Circle, alongside firsthand experiences from organisers already turning ideas into action.
Logos Circle / Online is on Tuesdays; join us via the Logos X account or Logos YouTube channel.
Community champions
Logos thrives through the people who build, research, organise, and contribute. Every effort, from technical development to community action, strengthens the network and turns shared ideas into real-world impact.
These are October’s community champions:
- Punit Pal for writing a Logos node-running guide.
- Nitish for building an AI agent simulation of Field Station / Rajasthan.
- Disha for her work on detecting an AI safety failure before it becomes visible.
- Tuhin for winning the Zu-Grama Field Station track with SignConnect, an AI-powered Indian sign language tool.
- Nenad for their article on the Liberland clean up.
- Terricola for their work on Logos Observer.
- Bristin for their work on the private, serverless forum Forumer.
- Syafiq for building the LEZ wallet SDK.
- Uchenna for promoting Logos Circle / Ibadan’s work on the Technies Node blog.
- Everyone co-living and building at Field Station / Rajasthan.
- Anyone already running Testnet v0.3 or building on Logos tech.
- All the stewards hosting Logos Circles in June, and everyone who attended.
- Anyone else building on Logos tech.
- Everyone who joined a Logos Broadcast Network stream or read a Logos Blog article.
Your efforts could be featured in an upcoming community spotlight. Technical and non-technical contributions are equally welcome, so share what you’re building, researching, organising, or improving on the forum or Discord.
Find a way to contribute, create something useful, and help move Logos forward. Build the parallel.
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