Start a Circle 2/About Logos Circles
In this section, you will learn the basics of Logos, the purpose of Circles, and access key onboarding resources.
What is Logos?
We are a movement for builders, explorers, and dreamers who refuse to accept the world as it is, and we are taking power back into our own hands. Our mission is to restore agency, trust, and civic power by giving people tools to explore, innovate, and improve their lives using decentralised technology.
Logos exists at the intersection of human exploration and technological revolution. We're part of a generation fed up with corruption, surveillance, and stagnation often associated with incumbent institutions.
As Bitcoin did for money, Logos enables permissionless, censorship-resistant governance institutions that solve real problems. However, unlike most public blockchains, Logos protects privacy across the network, ensuring it remains sovereign and secure.
We believe everyone should have access to governance that reflects their values and improves their lives. All people should be free to exit hostile, corrupt, and inefficient systems. For the first time in history, we can achieve this.
Logos Circles
Logos Circles are self-organised groups that take action to address issues that matter in their communities. Rather than trying to reform broken or rigged institutions, they focus on building practical alternatives that can operate independently and be sustained through the network.
Logos Circles are the heart of the movement. Through civil organising, skill-sharing, and relationship-building, these local chapters lay the foundation for distributed, parallel governance.
Circles respond to local needs, build trust through solving real problems, and experiment with real-world applications of Logos tools, infrastructure, and values.
Find the list of active Circles here.
The Logos technology stack
The Logos Technology Stack is a unified ecosystem of distinct modules. The entire stack is modular, so developers can assemble their own Logos-based platform with a different selection of modules.
The system’s technical foundation is a hybrid microkernel-microservices architecture that initially combines three existing core protocols:
- Blockchain: Decentralised computing and consensus.
- Messaging: Private, censorship-resistant communication between parties.
- Storage: Decentralised file storage and retrieval, using content-addressed (CID-based) data
- Logos App: A complete distribution that bundles the kernel, a microkernel responsible for the essential primitives every decentralised application needs, along with default modules and UI packages into a fully usable product. It provides the primary user interface, hosting simple apps that let users interact with different modules.
An Open Source Movement
Logos is an open-source, values-driven community built through collective effort. We experiment, build, and grow together, not just as individual contributors, but as a civic body.
Being open-source at Logos means more than publishing code. It’s about shared responsibility, transparent governance, and a commitment to solving real problems through voluntary collaboration. We organise around a common purpose: protecting individual freedom and enabling collective prosperity to renew civil society.
We welcome anyone inspired by the Logos mission to help build and steward what comes next.
How to join a Logos Circle
Each Circle is a local group that meets in person at least once a month.
Meetings are usually structured around a winnable issue — a specific, local problem that the group identifies and works on together in a practical way.
Circles are designed to move from discussion to action, building trust and momentum through small, achievable outcomes.
Find a local chapter close to you : Active Circles
How to start a Circle
Circles bring together people in different roles, with different motivations and levels of experience. You don’t need to fit a specific mold, what matters is that you care about building something real with others.
One of the following roles may resonate with you:
Activist / Participant
You care about a local or societal issue and want to contribute. You’re looking for community, purpose, and practical ways to make an impact—without needing to lead.
Action: Join one of the Active Circles or join the community.
Circle Steward (Organiser / Leader)
You are someone who takes initiative. You like bringing people together, organising activities, and turning ideas into action. You’re motivated to build and sustain a local community over time.
Action: Propose a new Circle
Activist / Builder
You like creating things—tools, systems, research, media, or infrastructure. You’re motivated by solving real problems and contributing your skills to something meaningful.
Action: Build for impact
Want to start or join a Logos Circle in your city? Come talk to us.
Logos onboarding resources
Explore Logos through videos, blog posts, podcasts, and in-depth reads to get oriented and dive deeper.
Logos
Network States
Grassroots organising
Logos Blockchain (previously Nomos)
Logos Messaging (previously part of Waku)
- Waku -Introduction video
- Waku : Uncompromising web3 communication at scale
- Intro to Waku documentation
Logos Storage (previously Codex)
Links
Website:
Logos X:
Github:
Logos Forum:
Operator Ordinals:
https://magiceden.io/ordinals/marketplace/logos-operators
Staking Dashboard:
Technical documentation
Essential reading
- The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations:,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21314.The_Starfish_and_the_Spider
- Decentralization by Vitalik Buterin:,
https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274
- The Cluetrain Manifesto,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81195.The_Cluetrain_Manifesto
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar (PDF),
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134825.The_Cathedral_the_Bazaar
- Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36515770-radical-markets
- The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14721.The_Wealth_of_Networks
- The Myth of Leadership: Creating Leaderless Organizations,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2406955.The_Myth_of_Leadership
- Organization after Social Media,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41546391-organization-after-social-media
- Swarmwise,
https://falkvinge.net/files/2013/04/Swarmwise-2013-by-Rick-Falkvinge-v1.1-2013Sep01.pdf
Recommended reading:
- Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2286633.The_Pirate_s_Dilemma
- Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449779-cyberchiefs
- Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/640034.Capitalism_3_0
- Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274500.Protocol
- Pirate Organization: Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586923-the-pirate-organization
IFT
Additional reads for a deeper understanding of the human mechanisms behind Circles.
Why we need Logos Circles
We are living through a period of structural decline. Across the West, institutions are losing legitimacy, economic systems are under strain, and communities are increasingly fragmented. Many people feel unable to rely on existing systems to provide stability, opportunity, or a sense of belonging.
1. Institutional Collapse & the Trust Crisis
- Only 4 in 10 people globally trust their national government (OECD 2024).
- In advanced democracies, 64% of citizens are dissatisfied with how democracy is working (Pew Research 2025).
- Traditional political institutions feel unresponsive, corrupt, or broken—especially among the young, marginalised, and digitally fluent.
→ Circles respond by giving people a tangible alternative: a space to organise, meet like-minded people, solve real problems, and take back agency.
2. Authoritarianism & Networked Suppression
- Over 70% of the global population now lives under authoritarian or eroding democratic regimes (Democracy Index 2024).
- Free expression is increasingly criminalised. Centralised digital platforms are weaponised by governments and corporations alike.
→ Circles uses Logos’ cutting-edge technology stack to create a resistant civic space designed to protect basic civil liberties from oppression and corruption.
3. The Meaning Crisis & Collapse of Community
- Philosopher John Vervaeke describes a global meaning crisis, where individuals are cut off from coherent sources of purpose, identity, and collective belonging.
- Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone famously documented the decline of social capital in the US—fewer clubs, churches, unions, neighbours, and civic spaces.
- Today, loneliness and disconnection have reached epidemic levels. In the UK and Japan, governments have even appointed Ministers for Loneliness.
→ Circles revive the social fabric by creating new communities based on shared values, rituals, mutual aid, and purpose-driven collective action.
Logos Circles solve this
They are spaces for:
- Building relationships rooted in values.
- Creating rituals of mutual connection.
- Acting together to help each other as a purpose.
- Rebuilding civic life from the ground up.
These challenges are not temporary. They are the result of deeper structural issues that cannot easily be resolved through reform alone. As trust declines and institutions become less effective, individuals and communities are left to navigate these conditions with fewer shared resources and weaker support systems.
Each Circle identifies gaps in its local environment - whether in mutual aid, education, coordination, or access to resources - and works to develop small, functional systems to address them. Over time, these efforts contribute to a wider network of support, capability, and shared infrastructure.
Through this approach, Circles aim to:
- Rebuild local capacity and self-reliance
- Strengthen community ties and shared responsibility
- Create practical alternatives where existing systems fall short
- Contribute to a broader network of aligned communities
→ Circles are not just discussion groups. They are a starting point for rebuilding civic life from the ground up, through coordinated action, shared values, and long-term commitment.
How the Logos Stack Enables the Work of Circles
- Blockchain: a decentralised consensus layer enabling local governance and rulesets.
- Messaging: censorship-resistant messaging for secure communication.
- Storage: private storage for documents, identity, and shared knowledge.
→ Circles use these tools to prototype real-world, resilient institutions: mutual aid systems, peer-to-peer marketplaces, community-owned infrastructure, and more.
Winnable Issues from Circles
An overview of winnable issues being worked on, or completed by Logos Circles around the world. Each Circle below shows the opening paragraph of its own page. Follow the link for its full record: completed issues, work in progress and forum reports.
Abeokuta (Nigeria)
Logos Circle / Abeokuta meets in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Its earliest report covers a meeting at Buckingham Mall in December 2025. After early meetups on student entrepreneurs and digital literacy, the Circle turned to health in mid-2026 with a free medical outreach and help with patients' hospital bills. It has also put up a crypto donations page on FundBrave and is raising money for 20 women entrepreneurs to take online courses.
Abuja (Nigeria)
Logos Circle / Abuja meets in Abuja, Nigeria. Its reports run from its second meeting in February 2026. It has built a WhatsApp Navigation Assistant to help newcomers get around Abuja and has planned a reading and mentorship programme for school students.
Accra (Ghana)
Logos Circle / Accra is the Logos Circle in Accra, Ghana. Its earliest forum report covers an April 2026 session posted as the Ghana Circle. The Circle ran a digital-skills and digital-literacy series from April to June 2026, moved to financial literacy in July, and took a financial literacy and scam-awareness outreach into the community in August 2026.
Awka (Nigeria)
Logos Circle / Awka meets in Awka, Nigeria, at The Root Restaurant & Cafe. It works on jobs for tech talent in Anambra, starting with a CV and job application training for more than 70 people. By August 2026 five members had found jobs against a target of 20, and in October the Circle chose career awareness for secondary school students as its next issue.
Benin (Nigeria)
Logos Circle / Benin City meets in Benin City, Nigeria, often on the University of Benin main campus. Its reports run from February 2026. It has set up a peer study group for students, raised money for members facing illness, and helped patients at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital pay their bills. It is also building FundBrave, a social-DeFi fundraising platform for local causes.
Delhi (India)
Logos Circle / Delhi first met on 9 May 2026 in Delhi-NCR, India. The Circle chose education support for children who fall through the gaps of formal schooling. It works with a volunteer-run, open-air tuition group that teaches children under a tree.
Ede (Nigeria)
Logos Circle / Ede first met on 6 July 2026 in Ede, Nigeria. Its first meeting was itself an outreach to a public primary school, and it ran a second school outreach in August 2026, with learning materials for pupils and welfare packages for teachers. It is now setting up a monthly Circle fund and local sponsorships so that future school outreaches have funding and transport in place.
Enugu (Nigeria)
Logos Circle / Enugu first met on 24 January 2026 at Roots Café in Enugu, Nigeria. It chose mental health as its winnable issue and made a short awareness documentary, which it released on YouTube in August 2026.
Nairobi (Kenya)
Logos Circle / Nairobi is the Logos Circle in Nairobi, Kenya. Its earliest forum report covers its third meeting, on 5 February 2026. The Circle's chosen issue is civil tech education for children, through a comic and game about privacy, AI, decentralisation and digital sovereignty, called the Sovereign Kids comic.
Ilorin (Nigeria)
Logos Circle / Ilorin meets in Ilorin, Nigeria. Its reports run from May 2026. It is building Send Help (first called Wahala), a platform of emergency contact numbers, and in August 2026 it raised money to pay school fees for 20 high school students.
Kampala (Uganda)
Logos Circle / Kampala first met on 24 April 2026 at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. The Circle started with transparent school and hospital fees and moved on to transparent funds management for SACCOs (savings and credit co-operatives), using smart contracts on the Logos testnet.
Liberland (Apatin Border Region)
Logos Circle / Liberland was a pop-up Logos Circle at Liberland's 11th Anniversary Celebration in April 2026. It ran a one-day clean-up of the road and Danube riverbank between Apatin, Serbia, and Liberland, a stretch not regularly served by municipal rubbish collection, and removed more than 35 bags of waste.
Lisbon (Portugal)
Logos Circle / Lisbon meets in Lisbon, Portugal. Its reports cover community work in the Quinta do Mocho neighbourhood, including a planned community garden, and a micro-rewilding project in Graça funded by a €600 Plural Events Bounty. It has also secured a community centre for young adults in Quinta do Mocho, shown a trailer of its film on the neighbourhood at the Rare Effect Festival, and run a winter collection for Mocho's children, and is finishing the short film.
London (United Kingdom)
Logos Circle / London held its twelfth meeting on 27 July 2026, a year after it started. Its meetings have included a data-backed debate on public spending and state performance, and in July 2026 it launched gapmap.uk, a map of gaps in British civil society. In October 2026 it paused its meetups until early next year, with members carrying on the gap work online or in groups of up to three. It is also developing public education on UK government debt, policy trade-offs and digital governance.
Los Angeles (USA)
Logos Circle / Los Angeles is building a private whistleblowing app for entertainment workers in Los Angeles, who risk retaliation, blacklisting, NDAs and lawsuits when they report abuse, unsafe conditions or wage theft. Its core features and technical architecture are drafted and prototype planning is under way.
Ruse (Bulgaria)
Logos Circle / Ruse met on 24 January 2026 at Dunav Plaza in Ruse, Bulgaria. The Circle is building two tools for the city: Transparent Ruse, an anonymous platform for locals to report problems, and Interactive Ruse, a map of the city for visitors. It tracks its work in public on its website and GitHub.
Port Harcourt (Nigeria)
Logos Circle / Port Harcourt first met on 30 May 2026 in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. It began with community safety and designed a Buddy Platform for trusted safety networks, then turned to supporting orphanages and misplaced children.
Uyo (Nigeria)
Logos Circle / Uyo first met on 28 May 2026 in Uyo, Nigeria. Its early meetups discussed waste and youth unemployment. Since July 2026 it has run community clean-ups.
Zanzibar (Tanzania)
Logos Circle / Zanzibar is the Logos Circle in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It meets as the Impact Circle x Logos Circle, mostly in Chukwani, and brings together artists, students and coordinators. Its winnable issue is cutting single-use plastic through awareness built with music, poetry, dance, theatre and film. With the Straight Training Center, a community-run school for underprivileged and at-risk children, it raised US$2,000 for 10 Raspberry Pi computers and is raising US$1,500 for the school's rent for another year.
Roadmap for Logos Circles
This roadmap outlines how Circles can grow over the next five years, from small local initiatives to regional networks, economic development, and a fully self-sustaining global structure.
In it, each phase builds on the last, creating a virtuous cycle of trust, impact, and influence that positions Logos as a credible parallel institution capable of supporting political, technological, and economic initiatives worldwide.
Establish Ideological Foundations
- Publish educational content: mission, vision, symbols, and shared culture.
- Create manuals, guides, and playbooks for leadership training and grassroots organising.
- Run pilot initiatives with partners to generate success stories and proof of concept.
Recruit & Train
- Use success stories and case studies to drive recruitment campaigns.
- Train organiser-volunteers with documentation, mentorship, and 1-on-1 guidance.
- Launch local meetups to onboard members and grow networks.
- Develop leaders who train leaders, creating exponential growth.
Deepen Community Engagement
- Amplify communications, case studies, and organic content from the community.
- Celebrate success stories across Circles to inspire others.
- Use local wins (e.g., fixing a park, successful app, tech workshops) to prove value.
- Shift meetups from just social to community-building activities.
Build Organisational Structures
- Launch a public database of volunteers (Movement alias, contact, location).
- Build and lanuch an internal CRM for volunteers to organise.
- Adopt the Snowflake model for Circles: small autonomous groups with distributed leadership.
- Build a graphical map of the network showing active Circles, roles, and open spots.
- As Circles multiply, develop regional, national, and specialised nodes.
Build Social Capital
- Establish Circles as trusted local institutions with real influence.
- Position Logos as a parallel governance system outperforming failing states.
- Leverage legitimacy for political, cultural, and economic initiatives.
Economic Development & Microfinance
- Launch grant programs to incentivise and reward action.
- Build funding pipelines: donations, grants, coalition partners.
- Develop blockchain-based microloans for trusted Circle members.
- Treat the network as a developing country investing in its citizens.
Adaptability & Innovation
- Mobilise Circles for campaigns, lobbying, fundraising, or tech deployments.
- Experiment with new technologies and governance tools.
- Continue evolving with feedback, keeping Circles resilient and relevant.
Circles Charter
The Circles Charter defines the purpose, principles, and operating model of Logos Circles. It establishes a shared framework for how local Circles are formed and organised.
1. Purpose of Circles
Circles exist to rebuild civil society by enabling local groups to:
- Build real community (tribe)
- Develop agency (ability to solve problems locally)
- Execute winnable civic actions in the real world
2. Core Principle: Winnable Issue Defined Before First Circle
Every Circle is built around an initial, pre-defined winnable issue.
This issue is:
- Identified and designed during Steward training
- Prepared in parallel with Circle recruitment and promotion
- Executed in the first month of Circle activity
Following the execution of the first issue, the Circle decides as a group what issue to tackle next.
3. Definition of a Winnable Issue
A winnable issue must:
- Be complete in ≤ 3 months total lifecycle
- Have visible, local impact
- Be executable by volunteers (low dependency on institutions)
- Produce a measurable outcome
Examples (link to Issue buckets):
- Park or street clean-up
- Community safety or lighting improvement
- Local mapping or coordination system
- Small digital tool or workflow for civic coordination
- Physical improvement in partnership with local actors
4. Operating Model
Circles follow a four-stage execution lifecycle:
Stage 1 — Steward Training (Pre-Circle)
The Steward:
- Completes training
- Identifies one winnable issue
- Defines:
- clear problem statement
- success criteria
- execution steps
- required volunteers/resources
- Begins recruitment in parallel
Output:
A fully defined, ready-to-execute winnable issue + initial participant pipeline
Stage 2 — Recruitment & Setup (Parallel Phase)
While the Circle is being formed:
- Steward recruits participants
- Communicates clear mission (“we are doing X”)
- Pre-aligns expectations around execution
Key rule:
Participants join an action, not a discussion.
Stage 3 — Circle 1 Execution (Month 1)
Circle 1 is an execution container.
It includes:
- Alignment on issue plan
- Final coordination
- Volunteer mobilisation
- Execution of the winnable issue
Primary goal:
Complete or materially deliver the winnable issue within 30 days of Circle launch
Stage 4 — Review & Iteration (Post Month 1)
After execution:
- Document outcomes (report + media)
- Share publicly on Logos forum
- Evaluate success
- Decide next issue cycle
5. Circle Session Types
Circles operate through two session types:
1. Action Sessions (Core)
- Volunteer days
- Cleanups
- Field execution
- Direct civic work
2. Execution Planning Sessions (meet-up style)
- Logistics and coordination
- Resource alignment
- Task breakdown
- Relationship building
- Reflection
- Recruitment
6. Funding Model
Circle Stipend
Each active Circle receives a monthly stipend from Logos.
The stipend is intended to support the Circle's mission and gives Stewards the flexibility to decide how it is best used to create local impact.
The stipend may be used for things such as:
- Venue hire
- Food and refreshments
- Travel for Stewards
- Materials or equipment
- Printing (where appropriate)
- Costs associated with delivering the Circle's winnable issue
- Donations, supplies, or other direct support for organisations or community partners where this contributes to the Circle's winnable issue
Rather than allocating separate budgets for venue, food, printing, or other categories, Stewards are trusted to determine the best use of the stipend based on their local context and priorities.
Funding Timeline
- Logos provides a monthly stipend during a Circle's initial three-month launch period.
- After the launch period, active Circles continue to receive one stipend per quarter, provided they continue meeting the criteria outlined in this charter.
- Stewards are encouraged to make the stipend go as far as possible by seeking community partners, donations, sponsorships, or low-cost meeting formats where appropriate.
Funding Conditions
Continued eligibility for the stipend requires:
- Submission of a public report after each Circle, including photos or other evidence of activity (faces may be hidden to respect privacy).
- Completion of the first winnable issue within 30 days of Circle launch.
- Completion of a new winnable issue at least once every three months.
- Regular Circle activity and participation.
Hard Rules
If a Circle does not complete a winnable issue within its three-month lifecycle, stipend payments will be paused until the Circle returns to good standing.
If a Circle does not meet for three consecutive months, the Steward will be offboarded and the Circle removed from the active programme if there is no other active Circle member willing to step up to Steward.
7. Reporting Requirements
After every Circle:
Must publish a report on Logos forum including:
- Issue being addressed
- Actions taken
- Outcome (or current status)
- Evidence (photos, documentation, outputs)
- Next steps
No report = no continued funding eligibility.
8. Steward Responsibilities
Stewards are responsible for:
- Designing the initial winnable issue during training
- Facilitating the discussion to define future winnable issues with Circle attendees
- Ensuring execution happens within timeline
- Coordinating logistics and sessions
- Publishing Circle reports
9. Support Model Shift
To make Circles successful under this model, support shifts from “meetup funding” to “execution enablement”.
Support systems:
1. Issue Design Templates
Pre-built winnable issue formats (the “issue buckets” including:
- cleanup day
- mapping exercise
- infrastructure micro-fixes
- civic coordination tools
2. Steward Training System
Focus on:
- defining executable issues
- building simple action plans
- ongoing training through courses on the e-learning platform
3. Steward coaching layer
- weekly office hours
- troubleshooting execution issues
- helping refine issue scope
4. Recognition + visibility loop
- highlight successful Circles publicly
- create visibility for Stewards across the global network
- reinforce success culture through storytelling
5. Fundraising Support
Support for Circles to raise additional funding and increase the visibility of local initiatives, including:
- creating a fundraising page
- promotion through Logos X channels
- feature posts on the Logos blog
- dedicated X posts
- opportunities to present campaigns in Logos X Spaces
- local PR and media outreach support where appropriate
10. Success Metrics
- ≥1 winnable issue completed per Circle in Month 1
- New winnable issues executed every three months
- High-quality public reporting after each Circle (forum and X)
- Repeatable Steward onboarding → execution pipeline established
Future Direction (Charter V2)
The charter above defines the operating model for the next 4–6 months as we validate the Circles movement and establish repeatable patterns for successful local organising.
Following this initial phase, the programme will evolve to include additional layers of economic coordination, governance and network participation.
The following features are planned for Version 2.
1. Savings & Mutual Aid
Every Circle will operate a local savings and mutual aid fund.
This fund forms the economic foundation of the Circle by encouraging financial discipline, building trust between members and creating local capacity for community investment.
Funds accumulated through the savings circle may be used to:
- support local community initiatives
- provide mutual aid to members where appropriate
- act as collateral for future access to on-chain lending markets
Savings circles will become a core part of every Circle's long-term operating model.
2. Expanded Stewardship Structure
As Circles mature, leadership responsibilities will be distributed across a number of formal officer roles.
Every Circle will be expected to appoint, at minimum, the following officers.
| Officer | Function |
|---|---|
| Steward | Runs the Circle, facilitates meetings, coordinates activities and serves as the primary point of contact with regional support. |
| Treasurer | Manages the Circle's savings fund and finances, records contributions and provides financial updates. Withdrawals require dual authorisation with the Steward. |
| Secretary | Records meeting minutes, maintains membership records, tracks attendance, submits reports and manages Circle communications. |
| Warden | Maintains standards and safeguarding, ensures the code of conduct is followed, manages disputes where appropriate and escalates serious issues when necessary. |
Distributing responsibilities across multiple officers increases resilience, accountability and continuity as Circles grow.
3. Every Circle Runs a Logos Node
In Version 2, each Circle will be encouraged to operate its own Logos node.
Running a node serves three purposes.
Practical
Each node strengthens the decentralisation, resilience and sovereignty of the Logos network.
Every Circle becomes an active part of the network's infrastructure.
Symbolic
The node becomes the Circle's shared centre of coordination.
Rather than organising around an individual leader, the Circle organises around its contribution to the network itself.
Economic
Node operators receive staking rewards which can provide a sustainable source of funding for Circle activities over time.
Accessibility
Nodes are designed to run on inexpensive, low-power hardware and should require minimal technical expertise to operate with the appropriate tooling and documentation.
4. Long-Term Vision
Over time, Circles will evolve beyond meetup groups into self-sustaining local institutions.
Each Circle will combine:
- strong local community
- regular civic action
- shared economic coordination
- distributed leadership
- ownership of network infrastructure
Together, these create a durable foundation for rebuilding civil society through locally organised, globally connected communities.
Resources for Activists
Purpose: Give your Circle the privacy and autonomy tools it needs for the parts of Circle life Logos does not currently cover.
This page lists only tools external to Logos. For Logos tools and reading see Logos onboarding resources. For staying in touch between meetups see Staying connected.
There is no single right stack for everyone or every need. What your Circle needs depends on who it is protecting itself from, so ask yourself that first. Everything in this list is free and open source unless the entry says otherwise. This is a non-exhaustive list of tools chosen for their relevance to Circles. Logos is not paid or otherwise incentivized to promote any of them.
Talk and meet
- Element: encrypted chat and calls on Matrix
- Jitsi Meet: video calls in a browser, no account to join
- Tuta: encrypted email, subject lines included, free tier
- Proton Mail: encrypted email from Switzerland, free tier
- SimpleLogin: throwaway addresses that forward to your inbox
Work together
- CryptPad: documents and sheets the host cannot read
- LibreOffice: full office suite, offline, desktop only
- Fileverse.io: privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted document and sheets editor
- OnionShare: send a file from your own computer over Tor
- VeraCrypt: lock a disk, a USB stick, or a file
- Cryptomator: lock files before they reach a cloud drive
Fundraising
- Open Collective: ongoing collective treasury + fiscal hosting
- FundBrave: A Regenerative Social-DeFi Fundraising Platform (Benin Circle initiative)
- Giveth: low-friction direct fundraising, crypto native
- Goteo: project-based crowdfunding
AI
- Jan: chat with AI models on your own computer, offline
- Venice AI: private AI chat in a browser, free tier, not open source
Browse and connect
- Tor Browser: hides who and where you are, no iPhone
- Mullvad Browser: hard to fingerprint, pair it with a VPN
- uBlock Origin: blocks ads and trackers, pages load faster
- DuckDuckGo: search with no profile on you, engine not open
- Mullvad VPN: EUR 5 a month, no name, cash accepted
- WireGuard: fast tunnel, needs a server you trust
- Snowflake: makes a blocked Tor connection look like a call
- Orbot: puts your phone's apps through Tor
Passwords and accounts
Start here if you are not sure where to start.
- Bitwarden: password manager, syncs across your devices
- KeePassXC: password manager, file stays on your machine
- Aegis: two-step codes with backups you control, Android
🔑 Shared accounts are the easiest thing for a Circle to lose. Never share a password over chat, put two-step login on every account, and agree who holds recovery access before you need it.
Blockchain 101
- CryptoZombies Origins: a quick, interactive game introducing you to blockchain
- Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Explained: a structured introduction to the basics
- Kernel: go deeper into the ideas behind crypto and a decentralized web
Go deeper
- Gapmap: free software as alternative to centralized options (London Circle initiative)
- Privacy Explorer: tools, protocols, and projects protecting digital freedom
- Personal FOSS Stack Explorer: what privacy researchers actually run
- Privacy Guides: the deep reference, with criteria and reviews
- Security in a Box: physical threats, arrest, a seized device
- EFF Surveillance Self-Defense: scenario guides, including protests
If you use something that you want to have shown here, propose it on the Logos Forum, saying which category it fits and why.
Last updated: 27 August 2026.