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State of the Logos Network: August 2026

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

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Museum of Civil Liberties opens, raising chat control awareness, Ann Brody shares insights with Parallel Dispatch, Logos Basecamp app exposes privacy leaks, returning to Zanzibar, and new Logos Broadcast Network programming goes live. We recap August’s Logos movement updates.

Museum of Civil Liberties opens

In August, Past.Present.Future., a new initiative exploring the systems that shape our freedoms and the forces that continue to erode them, went live. It begins with The Past and a trip to the Museum of Civil Liberties, an online museum tracing pivotal moments when our agency over money, communication, and political expression was weakened. The museum is a reminder of why privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant technologies are at the heart of Logos.

Enter the museum to explore the events that brought us here, from the end of the gold standard and the expansion of post-9/11 surveillance to internet shutdowns and the weaponisation of personal data. 

The Past is only the beginning: The Present and The Future are coming soon, extending the story of our eroding freedoms and where we’re heading if we don’t change course. 

Enter the Museum of Civil Liberties.

Raising chat control awareness 

Last month, Logos launched a new initiative examining the EU and UK’s latest efforts to regulate online safety through private-message scanning and age verification. Both are presented as targeted measures to protect children, but in practice they require much broader systems for inspecting communications or verifying the identities of ordinary users.

The initiative presents peer-reviewed research, large-scale empirical studies, and evidence from leading cryptographers and security researchers to show why these measures will fail at their stated goals while imposing significant threats to privacy and freedom. This is a core reason Logos exists: to build privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant technologies that uphold freedoms structurally rather than waiting for policy promises that rarely result in lasting change.

Check out the chat control initiative homepage.

If you’re local, join Logos Circle / London to support.

Muster on Logos: Showing privacy leaks across the transaction lifecycle

This month, Corey shared Muster, a sample application built on Logos to explore what privacy looks like across the full lifecycle of a transaction, not just at the point where value moves onchain. The demo brings encrypted messaging, coordination, negotiation, and private settlement into a single workflow, while also surfacing where information is exposed along the way.

Muster provides a useful demonstration of the PriFi thesis: protecting a transaction at settlement is not enough if intent, counterparties, terms, or identity leak through the tools used before and after it. By keeping more of that activity within the same privacy-oriented infrastructure, Logos can reduce dependence on fragmented, centrally operated services, and give users greater visibility and control over what they reveal. 

Learn more and experiment with Muster.

Parallel Dispatch launches

Parallel Dispatch is a new biweekly newsletter that highlights developments threatening our freedoms and the tech and people defending them. Expect a curated selection of topical stories covering legal updates, activist movements, and resistance technologies from around the world. Sign up at the bottom of the Logos homepage. 

Parallel Dispatch also features bite-sized interviews with pioneers building, theorising, or taking action to support the parallel society movement. The first was with Ann Brody, an interdisciplinary researcher and digital rights advocate whose work explores how decentralised technologies shape governance and collective organising.

IRL / Upcoming

Over the coming months, Logos is exploring plans for a linked series of residencies, technical gatherings, and cultural activations focused on privacy, coordination, and developing real world solutions on sovereign infrastructure.

Potential activities include hands-on experimentation with the Logos stack, community-led organising, and collaborations with artists and independent networks. Stay tuned for updates. More details will be shared as plans develop,

IRL / August

Zanzalu

Over three weeks at Zanzalu, the Logos community put both its technology and its approach to grassroots organising into practice. Participants explored Basecamp, learned how to get Logos nodes online, joined permaculture training, and connected with local projects to share skills and learn from existing community initiatives.

A highlight was returning to Straight Training Center, a community-run school supporting more than 120 students in Zanzibar. Last year, Logos Circle / Zanzibar helped raise funds for 10 Raspberry Pis to equip its computer room. This year, the team saw those computers in use, delivered children’s books collected through Logos Circle / Lisbon, ran English reading and conversation classes, and took part in music and cultural exchange sessions with students.

The visit also helped lay the groundwork for what comes next. Footage was captured for a short film to support future fundraising, while the Zanzibar Circle began looking at how it can help the school achieve its next major goal: constructing a permanent base to give the centre greater stability and room to expand. Learn more.

Logos Circles / August Highlights

Logos Circles are open, locally led groups where people come together to turn shared concerns into practical action. Members identify issues that matter in their communities, build grassroots responses, and connect those efforts to the wider global network, using Logos technologies where they add value.

In August, Circles formed in:

/ Awka / Lisbon / Kano / Zanzibar / Ede / Abeokuta / Khartoum / Abuja / Vizag / Calabar / Aba / Monrovia / Katsina / Kampala / Ibadan / Delta / Kaduna / Wukari / Yoal / Zaria / Sokoto / Gombe City / Bauchi / Maraba / Keffi / Benin / Minna / Ilorin / 

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

Logos Circle / Wukari supports local orphanage

On 29 August, Logos Circle / Wukari held its first community outreach at Success Orphanage Home in Pwadzu. Sixteen members took part, bringing food, hygiene supplies, mosquito nets, and donated clothing, while also meeting with the orphanage matron to better understand the home’s most urgent needs.

The Circle identified major challenges around clean water, overcrowding, and access to education, and arranged two volunteer maths and English tutors. The group is now planning a follow-up focused on beds and mattresses, water access, medical screenings, and additional hygiene support. Learn more.

Logos Circles / September

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

Several Logos Circles are still putting the finishing touches to their September plans, so only a handful of gatherings are confirmed at the moment. Check the Logos events calendar or the Circles discussion channel later this month for the latest events near you.

No Circle in your area yet? Get involved and start one.

Tech stack highlights

In August, two new releases of Logos Testnet v0.2 were shipped in quick succession, delivering iterative improvements. Logos Storage also pushed an update that brings better NAT traversal to node operators, making it considerably easier to run a node from a home network.

Two long-running pieces of work reached completion during the month. Zerokit v3.0.0 was released, completing the rearchitecture of the zero-knowledge library that powers RLN across Logos and the Status app, and the Logos Oracle Zone specification was finalised.

A faster network transport passed its scale testing, and message reliability went live in Status Communities, where messages that would previously have gone missing are now recovered automatically. Logos Core also saw an important security change, moving privilege out of the Basecamp interface so that no part of what a user sees on screen holds system-level access by default.

Research continued across network measurement, post-quantum readiness, and cross-zone coordination.

Logos Media

Blog

The Logos Blog features ongoing technical updates, movement news, and longer-form thinking on parallel organising and the ideas behind it. If you have a topic or perspective you’d like to contribute, send us a proposal.

In August, we published: 

Logos Broadcast Network

Each month, the Logos Broadcast Network creates space for people across the movement to share ideas, knowledge, and perspectives. The schedule spans community sessions such as Logos Circle / Online, developer-focused technical streams, discussions on new models of coordination, and deep dives into the Logos stack and the technologies surrounding it.

Check the Logos Broadcast Network calendar to see upcoming streams.

Ideas / Parallel Lives

August saw the first instalment of a new format on the Logos Broadcast Network. Parallel Lives invites those living outside the system to discuss their stories. It replaces our previous Thursday philosophical sessions three weeks out of every month.

Then, on the last Thursday of each month, the Sovereignty Super Space welcomes Parallel Society coalition partners and other big names at the intersection of tech and activism to discuss approaches to parallel organising. 

August streams included: 

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

Technical

The Logos Broadcast Network also connects developers with the wider community through a regular programme of technical streams. In August, sessions included:

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

Office hours

Logos Office Hours are weekly sessions designed to help the community better understand, use, and build with the Logos stack. Join every Friday at 12:00 UTC to speak directly with Logos engineers, ask questions, and deepen your understanding of the technology stack.

Logos Circle / Online

Logos Circle / Online is a weekly space for people taking on real challenges in their local communities. Each session combines practical guidance on starting a Logos Circle with insights from participants who are already organising and putting ideas into practice.

Logos Circle / Online is on Tuesdays; join us via the Logos X account or Logos YouTube channel.

Community champions

Logos grows through the people who contribute to it. From developers and engineers to researchers, builders, and community leaders, every contribution helps advance the mission, strengthen the network, and turn shared ideas into meaningful action.

These community champions went above and beyond in August: 

Your work 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.

Logos builds 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.