2025-01-20 Nomos weekly

PPoS / Consensus / DA §

Research §

• Role Declaration Protocol (formerly CVS) finalized:
  • Final protocol document written with simplified design: Role Management Protocol Specification
  • Design discussions completed and documented
• Started rewrite of NomosDA specification for improved standards:
  • NomosDA network specification (WIP)
• Cryptarchia v1 Protocol Specification now in review phase
• NomosDA Cryptographic Protocol updated with sampling updates and diagrams
• Published Ouroboros family article and started work on Crypsinous and Cryptarchia article
• Started adapting TKE documents to Nomos styling guidelines:
  • Nomos Tokenomics (ongoing)
• Collected and analyzed blob usage data from Ethereum:
  • Gas Usage and Blob Utilization Analysis
  • Working on developing equations for market relationships in Nomos Economic Model

Development §

• Connection Manager in DA POC making minimal progress, planning to align with Blendnet work

Blend Network §

Research §

• Extended analysis of communication and anonymity failure in Blendnet:
  • Analyzed broadcasting on branching trees with faulty and adversarial nodes
  • Derived recursive equations for failure probabilities
  • Details in Broadcasting on Trees and detailed analysis
• Extended latency measurements:
  • Planning to use Ethereum node distribution data for simulation
  • Simulator extension in progress for realistic node distribution

Development §

• Implemented missing parts of Blend connection management:
  • Series of PRs opened (#986, #987, #988)
  • Simplified and improved overall structure
  • Final PR pending

Coordination Layer §

Research §

• SMT vs IMT document finalized with benchmark results
• Integration of Efficient Proof of Equivalence updated with latest results
• Progress on data integration and unit/value creation:
  • Draft for modifications for wallet data requests
  • Minting and Burning specification in progress
  • IMT implementation details reviewed and updated

Development §

• PoE integration effort on hold due to performance constraints

Enhancements, Testnet and Tooling §

Development §

• Package distribution improvements:
  • Multiple clarity improvements and fixes for bundling code
  • Working bundles for rpm, deb, and appimage on x86_64-linux and i686-linux; and arm-osx
  • Successfully built risc0 from source
  • Details in PR #977
• Protobuf cleanup (PR #984)
• Updated testnet with minor fixes for Logos Oauth proxy and Tempo
• Released new testnet docker image with pinned Risc0 version (v1.2.0)

Miscellaneous §

• Wallet architecture research in progress
• Documentation work ongoing:
  • Various document reviews and updates
  • Whitepaper work starting with focus on DA and intro