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State of the Logos Network: July 2026

Your roundup of recent developments from the Logos social movement and tech stack

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Testnet v0.2 released, Bota Jardemalie shares her decade-long plight on LBN, tools and action at DWeb Camp, devs building on Logos, Sovereignty Superspace goes live, and more. We recap July’s progress from the Logos movement. 

Testnet v0.2 now live

Logos Testnet v0.2 launched on 30 June and, after several weeks of testing and hardening, we began its wider promotion last month.

The release strengthens the core Logos Messaging, Storage, and Blockchain modules while bringing foundational privacy features online. Key updates include the Blend Network for block proposer anonymity, token bridging between sovereign Zones, decentralised sequencing, improved message delivery, and NAT traversal.

All core modules are now available through Logos Basecamp, making it easier to run a node, join the testnet, and start building privacy-preserving applications.

Learn more and run Logos Basecamp.

Bota Jardemalie on the need for private infrastructure

In 2013, Kazakh lawyer Bota Jardemalie took a Skype call from a client whose testimony exposed how vulnerable communication channels can be. Soon after, she says she was publicly branded a criminal, placed on an Interpol red notice, targeted by surveillance and kidnapping attempts, and pressured through a years-long legal campaign and the detention of her brother.

Logos Broadcast Network spoke to Bota, who shared her story and reiterated the importance of secure communication channels: 

She also outlined the kind of tools and infrastructure our freedoms hinge on: private communication, censorship-resistant records, and payments that cannot be frozen or traced. We’re building Logos to protect people like Bota, as well as anyone else who might need private-by-default infrastructure.

Medusa wallet live on Logos

Medusa is a private, self-custodial wallet built for Logos Blockchain by developer ParadoxComputer. Available as a Logos Basecamp module, it supports multiple identities within one wallet and is designed to hold and move value across Logos zones.

ParadoxComputer describes it as a “MetaMask for Logos.”

In their own words:

Medusa supports features including shielded transactions, private addresses and multiple-address management. It is part of ParadoxComputer’s wider development work on Logos, which also includes LEZ ZoneScan, an explorer for the Logos Execution Zone.

See the code or check out Medusa on Logos now.

Medusa wallet was developed independently using Logos tech. Do your own due diligence before installing.

Jarrad Hope on Unchained

Laura Shin’s Unchained podcast brought together Jarrad Hope of Logos, Joe Andrews of Aztec Labs, and Mert Mumtaz of Helius to discuss why privacy is becoming one of crypto’s most important frontiers. The conversation covered the challenges of building privacy technology, including Zcash’s long-undetected counterfeit vulnerability, the quantum threat to crypto, regulatory pressure, and the difference between cryptographic privacy and systems that still rely on trusted intermediaries.

Jarrad focused on privacy as a requirement for the entire transaction lifecycle. He argued that communication, network access, and other layers can expose users and institutions even when the blockchain itself offers strong settlement guarantees. He also introduced the audience to the Logos tech stack as a solution to leaks at links in the transaction supply chain beyond settlement.

IRL / Upcoming

Logos LAN and Circles / Zanzalu

Logos returned to Zanzalu in Zanzibar from 25 July to 14 August, building on the Circle formed there last year. Logos Circle / Zanzalu identified a lack of access to computer education as a winnable issue and raised funds to equip the Straight Training Center with Raspberry Pis and other learning tools. 

This year’s activities look set to include a volunteer day at the centre, hands-on training for new Circle stewards, and workshops introducing participants to Logos Basecamp and to running a Logos node. 

Africa Privacy Conference

We’ll also be at the Africa Privacy Conference, now scheduled for mid-September. At the Logos booth, attendees can explore Basecamp, receive support with running a node, and learn how to participate in Logos Circle / Benin’s ongoing actions. The event is also an opportunity to connect with prospective Circle stewards and strengthen the African Logos community.

IRL / July

DWeb Camp

DWeb Camp took place in the Alte Hölle forest in early July, shortly after the Logos Testnet v0.2 launch. An aligned audience, still largely unfamiliar with Logos’s work, was invited to explore the underlying vision and tech stack through a series of sessions. 

Across the camp, Logos hosted a Basecamp presentation; Demo Night demonstrations of technology already being built on Logos, including the Meshtastic and radio modules; a live Keycard demonstration; and a presentation on decentralised libraries.

A hands-on Pop-Up Circle session invited participants to identify a concrete, winnable issue and coordinate action around it, giving a practical feel of what activism within Logos Circles can look like. Logos also stayed on to help pack down the camp and leave the forest as it was found. 

Look out for more practical tech demonstrations and movement activations at aligned events in the future.

Logos Circles / July Highlights

Logos Circles bring people together in locally organised, open groups focused on practical action. Participants identify challenges in their communities and develop grassroots projects to address them, forming a growing global network of local initiatives that adopt Logos tech where useful. 

In July, Circles formed in:

/ Lisbon / Awka / Kano / Ede / Abeokuta / Delhi / Ebonyi / Abuja / Zanzibar / Kampala / Delta / Mumbai / Vizag / Benin / Los Angeles / Zanzibar / Ruse / Gombe / Wukari / Lagos / Madrid / Calabar / Aba / London / Uyo / Yola / Port Harcourt / Ibadan / Kaduna / Katsina

Check the Logos Forum for individual progress updates on each Circle’s winnable issues.

New steward onboarding programme

We just launched a new training programme designed for those who want to start a Logos Circle in their area. It’s a self-paced course that should only take a couple of hours to complete and aims to prepare would-be Circle stewards to embark on their journey. If you’re interested in being involved, please reach out to us.

Logos Circle / Delhi supporting parallel education

In July, Logos Circle / Delhi supported a volunteer-run, open-air learning programme for children underserved by formal schooling. Members visited a class, spoke with volunteers and students, and distributed notebooks and learning materials.

The Circle is now helping turn the initiative into a more stable community learning hub by organising regular tutors, tracking attendance and progress, securing recurring supplies, and finding a weatherproof teaching space. Learn more.

Cleaning up Vizag

Logos Circle / Vizag completed its first winnable issue by leading a community cleanup of RK Beach in July. Members collected plastic and other waste, coordinated its removal with local authorities, and spoke with beach visitors about coastal pollution. Several passers-by also joined the effort.

Afterwards, the group shared breakfast and discussed future priorities for Vizag, including student mentoring and local issue reporting. Learn more.

Logos Circles / August

Logos Circles are already planned in the cities below in August:

Many Logos Circles are still finalising plans for their August gatherings, so only a few dates have been confirmed so far. Check the Logos events calendar or the Circles discussion channel later in the month for updates on upcoming Circles in your area. 

If there isn’t already a Circle near you, get involved and start one.

Tech stack highlights

In July, anonymous messaging over the mix network became usable and documented for the first time, with sender-anonymous messages now routed through a three-hop mixnet via Logos Chat. 

LIONESS payload encryption was merged into the mix protocol and confirmed to work with Logos Delivery, and a demo of mix-based chat with DoS protection was implemented. 

This followed June's Testnet v0.2 release, with the month spent consolidating progress across the wider stack, including Logos Core, storage, messaging, blockchain, and the Logos Execution Zone.

Two long-running research threads also reached publication, with the oracle mechanism specification and the payment streams on-chain specification both released.

Stay tuned for the July Logos developer update, which will be live on the Logos Blog very soon.

Logos Blog

Logos Blog publishes regular technical and activism updates, as well as philosophical writings about parallel organising and related fields. If there’s something you want to write about, please reach out with a proposal. 

In July, we published: 

Logos Broadcast Network

Every month, the Logos Broadcast Network brings together live voices and ideas from across the movement. Its programming ranges from Logos Circle / Online and technical sessions for developers to conversations on alternative forms of organising and in-depth explorations of the Logos stack and related technologies. 

Check the Logos Broadcast Network calendar to see upcoming streams.

Ideas

Thursdays are dedicated to the ideas on which Logos was founded. We welcome pioneering thinkers to discuss what they're working on and how it supports parallel organising.

The latest addition to the LBN’s schedule is what we’re calling the Sovereignty Superspace. On the last Thursday of every month, we invite representatives from the various organisations Logos works with to discuss the most pressing issues in privacy, decentralised technology, and parallel organising. We hosted the first Sovereignty Superspace at the end of July. 

Other July streams included: 

Follow Logos on X or YouTube to join these discussions every Thursday.

Technical

The Logos Broadcast Network also helps bring the developer community into the conversation through a dedicated schedule of technical streams. In July, the lineup featured: 

We also released several shorts to help people get Logos technologies up and running. They included:

Follow Logos Tech on X and subscribe to the Logos YouTube channel to take part in all of our technical explorations and demos.

Office hours

Logos Office Hours are to help the community understand how to run and build on Logos. They take place weekly on Fridays at 12:00 UTC. Put your questions directly to Logos engineers and deepen your understanding of the stack every week.

Circles

Logos Circle / Online brings together people who are solving local challenges in their communities each week. The sessions offer a practical look at how to create a Logos Circle, alongside firsthand lessons from participants already turning ideas into action. 

Logos Circle / Online is on Tuesdays in English and every other Wednesday in Spanish. Join us via the Logos X account or Logos YouTube channel.

Community champions

Logos is shaped by all its contributors. We celebrate the developers, engineers, thinkers, and changemakers whose code, ideas, and contributions push the mission forward and strengthen the movement. 

Here are July’s community champions: 

Your contribution could be included in a future community shoutout. Whether technical or non-technical, share meaningful work on the forum or Discord. Contribute where you can, build useful tools, and take the initiative. 

We're building technologies and a social movement to revitalise civil society. We need developers, designers, writers, and activists to help shape it. Come build the parallel with us.