Issue 2/Monthly Highlights
Parallel Infrastructure
21 September: λPrize winners
Congratulations to Pramadanif, Timidan, and Aegonmyy, who each won a λPrize. Logos sets most of these prizes where it finds a gap in its stack. Any individual or team can enter. Entries are judged against each prize’s criteria and must be open source.
Pramadanif built a multisig for the Logos Execution Zone, a shared account that pays out only after enough of its members sign off. They approve from private accounts, and the chain counts the approvals without recording who they’re from.
Timidan’s DistributionX hands out tokens to a list of people. Only a hash of the list and the payout amounts go on the chain. Everyone gets their own entry encrypted and claims it with a proof that leaves their address out.
Aegonmyy built an AI agent that runs as a Logos module and has its own wallet. It spends up to a limit you set, and asks you over an encrypted channel before it goes over it.
The three prizes were worth $1,200, $600, and $1,200. The ones open now also ask for evidence that what you build is being used. They’re listed at github.com/logos-co/lambda-prize.
22 September: Basecamp on Windows
Logos Basecamp runs on Windows from version 0.3.0, on Intel and AMD machines, thanks to dlipicar. Khushboo-dev-cpp’s work in the same release lets you uninstall apps from inside Basecamp, lets apps pass requests to each other and adds a progress bar to downloads. The installer is the file ending in windows-setup.exe at github.com/logos-co/logos-basecamp/releases.
30 September: Introducing the Activist Builder
Circles across the network keep hitting the same problems. They need ways to save and lend money as a group, organise mutual aid, vote on proposals, or keep a directory of who does what in town, among other things. One tool that works for all of them makes more sense than every Circle solving its own, and building that tool is the job of an Activist Builder.
Logos is looking for people who start from a real problem and work towards building the tool. You talk to the people who have the problem, test the idea with them before writing code, and build in the open so others can pick it up. Developers are welcome, and so are researchers, product designers, educators, and translators, because the work covers research and media too. Interested? Apply at logos.co/activist-builder.
30 September: Testnet v0.3
Until 30 September, getting testnet tokens meant asking a faucet and waiting for approval. Testnet v0.3 introduces EmPoWering, so you can mine them yourself: “no tokens, no stake, no permission”, in the words of Marcin Pawlowski’s Proof-of-Work LIP. Set up a node with the guide at docs.logos.co/run-a-node, then run logosctl call blockchain_module pow_start_mining.