PPoS / Consensus / DA §
Research §
- Blog content: The NomosDA Dispersal, Sampling, and Verification page is now complete and is undergoing review.
- Updated the PoV spec to support slashing and simplified it under the assumption that the input is always only one note.
- Studied two more transaction fee mechanisms: StableFees and Tiered Mechanisms (alternatives to EIP-1559). Notes with comparisons can be found here.
- Added a review of the DA market on Ethereum.
- Ran Cryptarchia MEV simulations: Economically Rational Validators in Cryptarchia v2, Cryptarchia v2 Fork Choice Rule Applied to Cryptarchia (C1-weighted), Slotless Cryptarchia, and Cryptarchia GHOST. All simulations were completed, and the results are summarized here. The conclusion is that GHOST performs the best among the improvements we’ve tested.
Development §
- PR #826 (Node) - Added handling for automatic reconnections in the dispersal executor behavior. This should significantly improve network stability for executors. After a few iterations, we found the correct approach.
- PR #828 (Node) - Removed unnecessary extra channels from the consensus adapter.
- PR #832 (Node) - Tests: General configuration and multiple nodes. Refactored integration tests to have a general configuration for common services in validator and executor nodes.
- PR #835 (Node) - Started the integration of the Coordination Layer in the node by adding the transaction definition format and cleaning the code by removing Carnot leftovers.
Mixnet §
Research §
Development §
Coordination Layer §
Research §
- Blog content: Started the IPA (Inner Product Arguments) page. IPAs are a type of operation on vectors that can be combined with Pedersen Commitments to create polynomial commitments.
- Started writing the CL Ledger spec to include recent decisions and added details on its workings. Also added a requirements comparison in the preliminary research.
- Started writing the Private Atomic Cross-Zone Transaction specification.
- Reviewed an epoch-based nullifier database solution, addressing the challenge of storing nullifiers and preventing database bloat. Relevant notes were added to the document.
Development §
Zone and Apps §
Research §
Development §
Development §
- PR #820 (Node) - CI: Added a self-hosted MacOS runner with metal support (in coordination with the Infra team). Additional configuration is needed for specific test cases, but now we have the capability to do it ourselves.
Miscellaneous §