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import { Manifesto } from '@site/src/components/mdx';
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<Manifesto>
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<h2>Logos: A Declaration of Independence in Cyberspace</h2>
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<header>
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<p>Jarrad Hope</p>
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<p>jarrad@logos.co</p>
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<p>www.logos.co</p>
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<p>PGP : <a href="https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=jarrad%40logos.co" target="_blank">openpgp.org</a></p>
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</header>
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<section>
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<p><b>Abstract.</b>{' '}
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A fully decentralised, privacy-preserving and politically neutral tech stack
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would provide the necessary support for self-sovereign virtual territories. Recent
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breakthroughs in distributed systems, leaderless consensus algorithms and ZK encryption provide the technical foundation that makes such a base layer possible. By using
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these technologies to build solutions for communications, storage and smart contracts,
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we can incentivise the formation of borderless public institutions based on voluntary
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consent. This opens the possibility for a culture of resilient parallel societies that
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maximise the costs of surveillance and oppression, while minimising the costs of exit,
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voice and loyalty. Doing this requires a resilient grassroots movement to govern and
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sustain the network, thereby providing trust-minimized, corruption-resistant governing
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services and social institutions to underserved citizens.
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</p>
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<p><b>Keywords:</b>{' '}network privacy, CBDCs, surveillance, p2p, monetary policy, inflation, free culture, ZK proofs, network states</p>
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</section>
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<article>
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<p>Every once in a while, a revolutionary idea appears that alters the fabric of our
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societies. The accompanying behaviours and technologies do not occur by chance;
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they are the aggregation of ancient trends and the inventiveness of millions. Language,
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agriculture, parliaments, the printing press, networked computing, blockchains, and
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artificial intelligence all transformed our world forever, rearranging human societies
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with a vision for the future. Today, we are bringing forth such a vision.</p>
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<p>In a world in which our lives are increasingly digital and borderless, the bureaucratic
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institutions of the state have been left behind, incapable of providing a peaceful order.
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The Westphalian system that birthed the nation state is struggling to keep up with a
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multi-polar, interconnected world. In this paradigm shift, the supra-national global
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elite is cannibalising its citizens and the fiat monetary system is collapsing in real
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time. </p>
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<p>We see this as the terminal phase of the Western project, a time of debt slavery, war,
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displacement, manipulation, corruption, broken ecosystems, widespread surveillance,
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nihilist values, socialised impoverishment and bipartisan tyranny. Across the world,
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we are sleepwalking into a series of interdependent catastrophes, the likes of which
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have not been in witnessed in generations. While most believe the situation is hopeless, we know it is not.
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</p>
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<p>To prove it, we are declaring independence from this dying order, reopening the
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frontier and establishing Logos, a self-sovereign network state founded on the solid
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ground of liberty, security, privacy, openness and decentralisation. Logos is the ancient
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Greek concept for the connection between language, reason and the order of the
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universe. To us, it represents a group of thinkers and builders searching for this
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immanent truth through dialogue, forming a global nation of shared values and
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like-minded peers.</p>
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<p>Our vision is to harness the transformational power of discovering together, building
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on our deep urge to invent and imagine a world beyond the tyrannical structures of the
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decaying status quo. Our mission is neither optional nor guided by chance, it is born
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out of necessity: we are at the critical juncture where the old system meets the new
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tools built to replace it, and we see no choice but to use them for our collective
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liberation. We know success is inevitable.</p>
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<p>We offer those who join us a liberated territory in cyberspace to interact freely in a
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passionate and respectful manner. To achieve this independence of the mind and body,
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we are building a versatile and powerful toolkit. The magic of cryptography gives us
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privacy, while the resilience of blockchains allows for global, coordinated,
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coercion-resistant institutions.</p>
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<p>These cutting-edge tools are designed to protect our basic rights from oppression,
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giving our citizens ownership of these technologies, a voice in their governance and
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the opportunity to make a difference. We offer meaning in a world starved of it. We
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were there at the beginning, when Bitcoin proved this dream was possible. We share
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its ethos and extend its properties to a user-owned, self-sovereign network state.
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</p>
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<p>Doing this requires taking on the challenge set in the initial vision for Ethereum: a
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fully decentralised politically neutral tech stack, complete with p2p
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communications, file storage and a multi-chain ecosystem.</p>
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<p>On top of this infrastructure we are establishing a parallel society with voluntary,
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consensus based governing services, designed for plurality and hard-coded to respect
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fundamental human rights. This society is governed by a common law court system
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and a culture of virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice,
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temperance and transcendence.</p>
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<p>Logos is the next step forward in the evolution of crypto and traces its origins to the
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founding ideals of the cypherpunk movement. Bitcoin provides single use-case value
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transactions, Ethereum generalizes this for arbitrary functions on a consensus layer,
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Logos allows the deployment of arbitrary social institutions while adding network- and
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transaction-level privacy.</p>
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<p>What does a world where we succeed look like? What will daily life be like in the
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network state and how do we solve the problems our citizens face? </p>
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<p>In our world, your life is as private as you want it to be. We are not the first to argue
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that privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not
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secrecy, it is a fundamental right.</p>
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<p>In our world, you own the services you use, no matter if you drive a taxi, start companies or organise politically. You own your information, your apps, your marketplaces
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and your assets. This means a voice in their governance and a stake in their success.</p>
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<p>In our world, the rule of law is transparent, fair and the true basis of our wealth. Our
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accessible governance system means transactions cost a fraction of what they do in the
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captured legacy bureaucracy, courts are trustworthy and mediation is minimal.</p>
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<p>In our world we have a transparent, self-sovereign monetary policy that serves the
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interests of our citizens.</p>
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<p>In our world assets are sovereign and secure, protected legally and technologically,
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from outside and within. Logos is a digital Switzerland of the electronic age.</p>
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<p>In our world culture is free, forkable and open. Freedom of expression is guaranteed by
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our underlying technology. If you do not agree with what you have consented to, you
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are always free to leave or remix.</p>
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<p>In our world hegemony is replaced by a plurality of heterogenous communities, sharing a culture of voluntary consent. Hegemony is not only oppressive but inefficient,
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stifling creativity and limiting the potential for discovery. Logos is the next step in the
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evolution of society, from warlike and poverty-stricken barbarism to a prosperous
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civilisation of voluntary harmony.</p>
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<p>In our world the answers will not come from one person, one institution or one group.
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We believe the smallest minority is the individual, and no individual is untouched
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by the experience, cultures and relations they are party to. Hence we enable plurality
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instead of tolerating or censoring it.</p>
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<p>In our world people are not atomised and treated as machines, because people, not
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machines, are at the centre of what we envision.</p>
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<p>Our world is anonymous and non-elitist.</p>
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<p>We do not care who you are.</p>
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<p>We do not care about your gender, race or nationality.</p>
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<p>We judge ideas on their merit and value through dialogue.</p>
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<p>We are people-powered software and we are relevant because of our
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uncompromising beliefs.</p>
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<p>We are bringing about the second enlightenment of the digital world, because
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the internet was not built for totalitarian control but for prosperity and
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emancipation.</p>
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<p>We also believe no one is free until we are all free, because no one is an island:
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we are all pieces of the main.</p>
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<p>We know there is going to be a pushback on what we create, but the reward
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is a freedom nobody has ever felt before.</p>
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<p>We will stop only when anybody, anywhere, can experience it.</p>
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</article>
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</Manifesto> |