2025-01-27 Nomos weekly

Nomos Bedrock §

Research §

• Cryptarchia v1 Specification under review
• Data integration discussions ongoing:
  • Created comparison document for transaction public data payload options
• SMT vs IMT document finalized and ready for green status
• Minting and Burning specification completed
• Common Ledger document updated with recent discussions
• Created Bedrock Zone Representation Spec
• Multiple Bedrock documents under review:
  • PoL v2
  • Minting and Burning Specification
  • CL Execution Model Specification
  • Common Ledger Specification

Development §

• Reviewed IMT implementation (PR #48)

Nomos Bedrock Services §

Research §

• Role Declaration Protocol updates:
  • Added modifications based on reviews: Role Declaration Protocol Specification
  • Decided to maintain per-epoch PoV refreshment without locking PoV coins
  • Planning to fix role stake thresholds for v1 with help from tokenomics team
• Completed analysis of broadcasting on branching trees:
  • Finished analyzing recursive equations for broadcasting and anonymity failures
  • Validated analytical results with simulations
  • Documented in Broadcasting on Trees and detailed analysis
• Blend Economic Motivation Module revision in progress
• NomosDA specification rewrite progressing:
  • NomosDA network specification
  • NomosDA encoding specification
  • NomosDA sampling specification
  • Python specification update

Development §

• Connection management implementation:
  • Multiple PRs submitted (#986, #987, #988, #989)
  • Implemented handling of max connections and malicious peers
• Connection Manager in DA work ongoing

Nomos Apps/Zones Ecosystem §

Research §

• Nothing to report

Development §

• Nothing to report

Road to Mainnet, Testnet and Tooling §

Development §

• Testing cfgsync tool for consensus progression issues
• KMS development:
  • Implemented basic preload KMS backend (PR #992)
  • Discussed implementation details and specification adjustments
• Bundling improvements:
  • Working builds for x86_64-linux, i686-linux, and aarch64-osx
  • Risc0 compilation explored for remaining targets
  • Created tracking issue #997
• State Recovery functionality:
  • Merged common code (PR #975)
  • Added abstractions (PR #1003)
• CI improvements:
  • Updated deprecated GitHub actions (PR #996)
  • Cleaned up remaining protobuf files (PR #971)
• Overwatch updates:
  • Fixed tracing macro issue (PR #44)
  • Added State Recovery support (PR #42)
  • Implemented Service Status updates (PR #41)

Documentation §

• Crypsinous article draft near completion
• Whitepaper intro v1 completed