The Logos Metasolution

Hi All, I’m writing from Fools Valley, near Lisbon 🇵🇹, where we’re getting ready to host our upcoming residency! Why are we already here? Last week Logos held their Parallel Society event in Lisbon, which was truly remarkable. We feel highly aligned to the work that they are doing in answering the Metacrisis (read our previous article for context).

Logos sits at the intersection of Frontier Tech and Activism. 180 world class engineers pushing the boundaries of privacy technology, distributed systems, cryptography, large-scale consensus - all insanely hard problems.

And surrounding them, a vibrant punk counterculture of high-agency, heart-centered people.

Institutions are failing us - “corruption, surveillance, and stagnation often associated with incumbent institutions”.

Revitalize Civil Society - “Our mission is to restore agency, trust, and civic power by giving people tools to explore and innovate using decentralised technology.”

One might ask - Why decentralized tech? What does decentralized even mean? Isn’t it just a fancy buzzword used by scammers and fraudsters?

Jarrad Hope (Logos CEO) addresses this in Farewell to Westphalia. It provides the best comprehensive explanation to Why Blockchain - why do we need it, what it enables, how is it misunderstood, what can we learn from history about the metacrisis, about the solutions that have been attempted, and their many failure modes.

How else are Logos exporting values? Through the Logos Circles. These are like meetups, but focused on specific winnable issues:

1. Select an issue

2. Narrow it down

3. Take action

4. Validate the impact

e.g. The Rome Circle (broadly identified as Urbe) wants to (1) demystify Blockchain for local builders. This was narrowed down to (2) organizing Web3 workshops, bootcamps, hackathons. (3) So we took action and onboarded countless builders into Web3. (4) Today, several hundred students have participated in Urbe bootcamps, we have hosted 3 consecutive years of ETHRome hackathon (birthing success stories like Fluidkey) and we manage one of the first Ethereum Community Hubs.

Circle happening during Parallel Society Day 1 (6th Mar 2026)

There is a third way in which Logos is exporting values:

Opening Address by Jarrad Hope (video out soon)

Glitch Armour by Miglė - what tools to use to stay safe online

Agartha’s SolarpunkOS Workshop

Some cool projects we connected with:

• Monty of ReFi DAO, Regenerative Finance network

• Sit With, decentralized therapy tool

• David of Modular Commons, NY-based community architecture

• Solarpunk NOW, Solarpunk movement in Berlin

• Hakeem of Above Phone, Pixel 10s with GrapheneOS out of the box

The music festival had some insanely talented local artists, like SoundPreta and Chima Isaaro,

as well as internationally recognized heavy-hitters like Apparat, Clark, and Gilles Peterson, who closed with a Fela Kuti adaptation! (Nigerian musician, activist, father of of Afrobeat)

The EcoDev (Ecosystem Development) team’s primary 2026 focus is to:

1. Grow the network of Circles to 60+ cities globally:

   1. Join your local Circle here.

   2. No Circle in your local city? Start a new Circle, or join the next Online Circle.

2. Grow the network of Logos blockchain nodes to 200+ clients globally:

   1. Run a node today here.

   2. Need some guidance? Join the node program for direct support.

3. Grow the ecosystem of builders to 60+ projects:

   1. Go to the builder hub to help build the open-source infrastructure stack, or build an application on top of it, like Status or Railgun.

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