Most "private" apps encrypt your messages, but they still run on someone else's servers, leak metadata at the network layer, and store your data in corporate clouds. Privacy gets bolted onto the app while every layer beneath it leaks.
Logos is an open-source, modular stack that makes privacy a property of the infrastructure itself. The easiest way to understand it is through something this audience already knows: Linux. A Linux distro is a kernel plus a networking stack, system services, and applications. Logos is organised the same way:
Kernel: a small microkernel (liblogos) that only loads, runs, and connects modules, much like systemd and D-Bus.
Networking: peer discovery plus a mixnet that hides who is talking to whom, with RLN-based spam protection that works without revealing identity.
Modules: decentralised storage, private messaging, and a blockchain where even validator identities and stakes stay hidden. You can also write your own modules.
Apps: a launcher with a wallet, chat, and file sharing, or a headless node for servers.
In 15 minutes, we'll walk through each layer, ask "what leaks here, and how does Logos stop it?", and end with how to run the testnet and start contributing. No blockchain or cryptography background needed.
Flow (15 min): the problem, metadata leaking at every layer (2) → the Linux analogy (2) → one slide per layer and what it protects (8) → running the testnet and contributing (2) → buffer (1).
