General information
Date: January 23, 2026 (2° meeting)
Location: Mexico City, Málaga 88 col. Insurgentes Mixcoac.
Registered on Luma: Logos Calendar
Attended: 6 participants, 3 return attendees and 3 new members
Languages: Spanish
Circle Steward: Mariana Carmona
Participants:
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Backgrounds: 1 developer, 1 policymakers, 2 academics, 2 crypto enthusiasts.
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Areas of interest or focus: recover democracy, strengthen civil society, crowdfunding campaigns for young entrepreneurs or young talents without means.
Event structure
Meeting started 19:00 and ended 20:30 ( Central Time )
Key agenda:
- Welcome new members
- Briefly intro to Logos and Circles
- The meaning of Winnable Issue
- Our social concerns
Topics Discussed
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The demise of our democracy, the concerns that it is very likely that we won’t be able to have a pacific regime change as the electoral institute is going to be reformed (aka captured)
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The need to build new public accountability mechanisms leveraging blockchain as the regime eliminated all the autonomous and independent agencies that were vigilant.
- Solutions, ideas, or proposals
From the previous discussion, the group analyzed (mainly) two proposals. The first one, an application (that could be a prediction market) where citizens can “vote” before the elections and use this as a sensor, sentiment data, with more credibility than polls, and also as a way to challenge the government that with all the intention is fostering the first electoral fraud of this century.
Another proposal was the deployment of an information mechanism (at the municipal level) where the citizens can check the public budget for infrastructure, health and education in a very simplified manner such that they can make pressure to the authority. The pressure can be exercised by cryptographic verifications of derelict social infrastructure or lack of it with photographs. Then citizens can “vote” which public work has more demand and use this witnessing application to pressure the government to repair, fix or construct acknowledging that there is budget for it.
- Technologies or tools mentioned
The developer in the group presented a winning hackaton dApp built on Ethereum called EnDAOment that is aimed at allocating grants in the public. university with student’s vote and the purpose of sharing this dApp was the similarity with the public-goods solution.
The group is seeking to build something with blockchain technology as non-technical solutions will lack of the credibility, subject to be manipulated and discredited.
Highlights
2 printed F2W books were distributed to the new members
Starbucks coffee traveler (12 cups), 10 pieces of bread with extra jam, 10 bottles of Evian water.
Total: US $81
Outcomes
- In the next meeting the group will continue the refinement of these ideas, technical and other non-technical challenges, scope and impact so that the winnable issue can be defined.
- Mel, a smart contract developer, mentioned that he would analyse the proposal leveraging EnDAOment and would bring this next time.
- Circle Steward, Mariana, committed to share this information with the group and instructions to join Logos Forum such that everyone can participate and continue the discussion on line.
Pictures of the meeting are available here