Logos Circle Rome, Urbe Village edition
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Location: Urbe Hub, Rome, Italy
Registered on Luma: 37
Attended: 15-20 participants
Languages: English
Circle Steward: Deca
Participants & Context
The Urbe Hub is the main Italian pole of attraction for Web3 builders who actually care about cypherpunk values. The Urbe group formed amongst people who wanted to talk about crypto and not crypto coin speculation. In this backdrop, the Circle happened during Urbe Village - our first popup village, focused on Privacy, Finance and AI. We had a linearly growing amount of attendees, from 30 on day 1, to 250+ on the final weekend for ETHRome hackathon (our grand finale). The Logos Circle happened on the final Thursday, just before the Web3PrivacyNow meetup and was attended by a mix of locals and international participants.
Event Structure & Topics Discussed
Start Time: 9:30am End Time: 1:30pm
Part 1: 9:30 - 11:30am
Welcome - Take some time to meet the Logos core contributors, Circle organisers, and fellow participants.
Introductions - Sitting in a circle, each person shares a little about their story and why this work matters to them.
Introductions to Logos - Learn about the Logos technology stack, the role of Circles, and why we organise in this way.
Technology and Winnable Issues - Hear stories from other Circles (we had Brno and Amsterdam Stewards present) about how they have applied Logos technology to local challenges, and explore potential use cases for tackling winnable issues.
Starting a Circle in Your City - If you feel inspired to launch a Circle where you live, we will share practical tips and next steps to help you get started.
Part 2: 11:30 - 1:30pm
Scope - Exploration of the problem space - Urbe wants to continue on its path to demystify Blockchain for local builders. Broadly, we discussed the role of Blockchain and Cryptography in aligning the incentives of the individual to the interests of the group - the superpower of blockchains to create artificial incentives (financial rewards and penalties) that shift the game theoretic equilibria of systems.
Narrowing Down - In the context of Urbe’s values and work, we discussed how to keep serving our mission in Rome, in Italy and abroad. This was narrowed down to organizing Web3 workshops, bootcamps, hackathons. Today, several hundred students have participated in Urbe bootcamps, we have hosted 3 consecutive years of ETHRome hackathon (birthing success stories like Fluidkey) and we manage one of the first Ethereum Community Hubs.
Outcomes
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Urbe had a clear exercise in identifying priorities in its ongoing mission to onboard builders to blockchain and cryptography - mission which kept going
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Rome steward Deca (me) next went to Edge City Patagonia as a next stop - with continued circle engagement.
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For the next chapter, Urbe is organizing Farcon in Rome. We work on the ground, we build and ship both apps and events that are value aligned. Our Logos Circles are meant to reinforce and expand these efforts…
The Next Chapter of Logos Rome Circle
In his opening address at Parallel Society 2026, Jarrad Hope described how the incentives of the social media are unaligned, with users as the product and strict lock-in.
As believers in the Farcaster ecosystem, we know this problem can be fixed with the Farcaster architecture.
Leading up to Farcon (hosted in Rome by Urbe this year), we will be hosting an online Circle to start discussing:
- How can the Farcaster vision solve the problem with social media.
- To CROPS or not to CROPS?
- How should we shape Farcaster going forward, as a community?
DOMINARI NEQUEAT QUI PRIUS ALICUI SERVITUTEM PRAEBERE DENEGAT.