Glossary

Every term on this wiki, A to Z. Format from Moneropedia.

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Activist Builder: Someone who turns community needs into "working tools, systems, research, media, and infrastructure", in the words of the Logos Activist Builder page. See Activist Builder.

Basecamp: Logos Basecamp, "a self-contained desktop application" for running a full Logos node, managing a wallet and installing modules. See Basecamp.
Blend: The part of the Logos Blockchain that propagates transactions and blocks privately. See PriFi.

Chama: A savings and lending group in Kenya. Chamas are central to the Sarafu system. See Commitment pooling.
Charter 77: An informal civic initiative in Czechoslovakia whose declaration was published on 6 January 1977. It criticised the government for failing to implement human rights commitments. See Charter 77.
Circle: A Logos Circle, one of the "self-organised groups solving winnable issues that matter locally". See Circles.
Commitment pooling: A protocol and practice in which communities issue redeemable commitments as vouchers and place them in shared pools. See Commitment pooling.
Community Asset Voucher: A redeemable commitment issued by a community and placed in a shared pool, in the Grassroots Economics model. See Commitment pooling.
Cosmo-Local Credit: The service that Sarafu Network moved to, according to the Grassroots Economics docs. See Sarafu Network.
Cryptarchia: The private proof-of-stake consensus of the Logos Blockchain. See PriFi.
Crypto anarchy: The idea set out in Timothy C. May's "The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" (22 November 1992). See Cypherpunk.
Cypherpunk: Someone who promotes strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technology to bring about social and political change. See Cypherpunk.

Exit: Leaving a failing system rather than staying to change it. The term comes from Albert O. Hirschman (1970). See Exit.

First Action: A new Circle's first visible win on an issue its members care about, ideally a micro-action that can be done within a week. See Winnable issue.

Imperative commitment: A commitment that holds because breaking it is constrained or impossible. Compare motivational commitment. See PriFi.
Issue buckets: The eight areas the Circles handbook uses to sort issues: Economy, Housing, Healthcare, Welfare, Security, Infrastructure, Institutions and Education. See Winnable issue.
Issue-cutting: Narrowing a broad problem into a target that can realistically be won. See Winnable issue.

λPrize (Lambda Prize): In the words of logos.co, "a competitive prize framework for developers shipping privacy-preserving software on the Logos stack". See λPrize.
LAN: The Logos movement zine. Issue 1 came out in September 2026. See LAN and Issue 1.
Logos: "The private-by-default technology stack for parallel societies", and a movement building a parallel society. See Logos.
Logos Messaging: The Logos stack's anonymous communication layer. See PriFi.
Logos Storage: Content-addressed storage with verifiable integrity, part of the Logos stack. See PriFi.

Magnitizdat: Sound recordings passed around on audio tape in the Soviet bloc. See Samizdat.
Mainnet: The stage that follows the testnet versions on the Logos roadmap. See Testnet.
Motivational commitment: A commitment that holds because the party could break it but prefers to keep it, for reasons such as reputation or collateral. See PriFi.

Network state: The Logos manifesto's aim: "a self-sovereign network state" founded on liberty, security, privacy, openness and decentralisation. See Logos.
Node: A participant that runs the Logos blockchain. Basecamp lets users run a full node, and before mainnet users can run a node on the Logos testnet. See Run a node.

Parallel polis: Václav Benda's idea of building independent institutions alongside the official ones, from his 1978 essay. See Parallel polis.
Parallel society: The goal of the Logos movement. The Circles handbook calls its creation "a form of non-violent civil resistance". See Parallel polis.
Parallel Society Playbook: A collection of winnable issues Circles have solved, written up so other Circles can adapt them. See Winnable issue.
PriFi: Private finance. The Logos design philosophy for financial tools on privacy-preserving, peer-to-peer infrastructure, on hardware you control. See PriFi.

RFP: Logos RFPs are "Funded calls for builders to ship Logos-powered applications and infrastructure." See RFPs.

Samizdat: Self-publishing of censored texts in the Soviet bloc, copied by hand or on typewriters. See Samizdat.
Sarafu: A digital complementary currency in Kenya, worth roughly one Kenyan shilling. Grassroots Economics documents it as part of commitment pooling. See Sarafu Network.
Second culture: Benda's name for independent culture outside official channels, which he called the most developed parallel structure. See Parallel polis.
Steward: A Logos Circle organiser. Stewards organise each meeting, guide the conversation and help the group uncover a winnable issue. See Circles.

Tamizdat: Literature published abroad, often from smuggled manuscripts. See Samizdat.
Testnet: The test version of the Logos network that runs before mainnet. Testnet v0.3 was released on 30 September 2026. See Testnet.
Transaction supply chain: The seven links of a deal: discovery, diligence, negotiation, contracting, ordering, settlement and enforcement. See PriFi.

Voice: Complaining and pushing for change from inside a failing organisation, in Hirschman's terms. See Exit.
Voucher: "A promise denominated in an agreed upon Unit of Account", in the Grassroots Economics glossary. See Commitment pooling.

Winnable issue: A clear, concrete local problem that a Logos Circle can act on and solve. See Winnable issue.

Zine: A "noncommercial often homemade or online publication", usually made by one person or a small group. See Samizdat.
Zones: The part of the Logos Blockchain that allows selective disclosure for compliance and disputes. See PriFi.

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