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State of the Logos Network: March 2025

Your roundup of recent developments from the Logos ecosystem

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Parallel Society Congress becomes Parallel Society Festival, Logos Operators enter Epoch 2, Waku’s internal hackathon produces project demos, and Codex defines a roadmap. Dive into March’s community update for all the details on these and other Logos initiatives.

Movement building

Technology is nothing without humans. Developing, maintaining, deploying, and building upon technological solutions capable of supporting diverse governance structures for communities with often wildly differing values requires an active effort to preserve the infrastructure’s political neutrality.

Logos’ near-term mission is to nurture a community prepared to defend the stack’s neutrality, ensuring that the technologies we build – and the applications and institutions built upon them – are optimised to support unprecedented governance experimentation. We round up our recent community-building efforts below.

Operators

March saw the start of Epoch 2 for Logos Operators. If Epoch 1 birthed our cybernation, Epoch 2 marks the transition from foundation to expansion. Like Epoch 1, Epoch 2 will include an inscription event, giving those aligned with the Logos mission another opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to our collective cause.

Details about the upcoming inscription event will be revealed soon. Follow OP1 on X to stay up to date with these and other Logos Operator initiatives, or join the Logos Discord. 

OpChan

Coinciding with Epoch 2 is the beta release of OpChan, which is rapidly emerging as the messageboard for the network state movement. As the name suggests, OpChan has similarities with the iconic imageboard 4Chan. However, OpChan will progressively leverage Logos technologies to provide more robust community sovereignty while serving as a testbed for governance experiments involving Codex and Waku. OpChan’s upcoming beta release will fix many of the bugs identified by Operators testing the alpha release. 

Since its February alpha launch, OpChan has seen network state pioneers establish more than 40 Cells around a variety of topics, initiatives, and interests. Logos Cells are self-sovereign hubs for education, experimentation, and community organisation, and anyone holding a Logos Operator ordinal can establish new Cells. Learn more about Logos Cells here.

Participating on OpChan – either by creating Cells or contributing to the discussions within them – provides another way for both ordinal holders and non-holders to earn XP, which will be used in future Logos initiatives.

To get started on OpChan, visit the Logos dashboard, connect your Bitcoin wallet, toggle “Degen mode” at the bottom of the page, and then click OpChan on the site navigation bar.

Events

Last year’s Parallel Society Congress was a roaring success and planning is underway for the next edition. As community is so central to the Logos mission, we’re doubling down on the cultural aspects of the event, inviting coalition partners to take a more active role in its curation alongside Logos. This shift in focus has led to a rebrand – from PSC to Parallel Society Festival. 

We’ll be co-hosting activations and events with the PSF coalition throughout 2025, with PSF itself tentatively scheduled for early 2026. We’ll be sharing more details with the community very soon.

Learning

As the hype around the concept of network states continues to grow, Logos co-founder Jarrad Hope took the opportunity to define network states for the cryptocurrency price site CoinMarketCap in March. You can read Jarrad’s definition of a network state here.

Work continues to prepare Jarrad’s forthcoming book, Farewell to Westphalia, for publication later this year. Co-authored by friend of Logos and author and philosopher Peter Ludlow, the book provides a blueprint for leveraging blockchain and related technologies to establish parallel governance structures.

Although still unpublished, prerelease copies circulated to personal friends of the authors are already making an impression on their readers – check Farewell to Westphalia’s entry on the P2P Foundation’s Wiki, for example.

To receive exclusive previews and publishing updates about Farewell to Westphalila, sign up to the book’s mailing list now.

Logos Press Engine is not just an educational resource; it’s also a platform to bring the work of thought leaders from outside the organisation to a wider audience. We were honoured to republish Pavol Lupták’s “The Crisis of Homogeneous Authoritative Systems and the Future of Modern Tribes”, originally published in issue two of Agorism in the 21st Century.

The article provides a sobering look at legacy systems and how we transition out of them into more freedom-oriented spaces and virtual communities. You can read it here.

Finally, we have resumed regular X Spaces to provide an open forum for conversations on topics surrounding the parallel society movement. The spaces will often feature guests, including pioneers working at the frontier of network states, as well as Logos core contributors. 

We hosted spaces on 4 March, 11 March, 13 March, 27 March, and 20 March – the latter with Daniel Thompson of Noma Collective, who discussed the overlap between digital nomadism and network states. Follow Logos on X and join us for the next Logos Space.

Technology development

Waku

The development highlight from the Waku team in March was an internal hackathon that spawned several interesting project demos:

Also in March, the team released a new version of js-waku – the JavaScript implementation of the privacy-preserving P2P communications protocols. Release highlights include: 

See the full release notes for more information.

Finally, the Waku team published a new blog:

Waku’s March monthly update provides a more detailed account of the team’s recent progress.

Codex

March saw the Codex team formally define their roadmap for 2025 and beyond, which is detailed in an accompanying blog post. The project also launched a metrics dashboard, which provides real-time testnet analytics for the decentralised data storage platform, and Codex contributors Marina and Ben attended Web3 Amsterdam, presenting and appearing on panels discussing decentralisation, AI and blockchain, and of course, decentralised storage.  

On Codex’s March Community Call, Guru, Codex’s developer relations lead, gave an overview of how to use the Codex Installer and Dmitriy outlined the road to Codex mainnet, which is coming this later year. Codex co-founders Dmitriy and Jessie also appeared on Civic’s Identity Unleased podcast, explaining web3 data storage needs and Codex’s position within the niche.

March also saw the team develop an integration for BitTorrent content and release Codex v0.2.0, which streamlines the onboarding process and makes it easier to run Codex.

Finally, the Codex team published a new blog: 

Codex’s March monthly update provides a more detailed account of the team’s recent progress.

Nomos

The Nomos team finalised the Service Declaration Protocol in March. The SDP is a mechanism enabling validators to declare their participation in specific Nomos services that require a known and agreed-upon list of participants. 

The team also published two new blogs: 

Nomos’ March monthly update provides a more detailed account of the team’s recent progress.

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