2025-03-10 Nomos weekly

Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-03-10 §

Nomos Bedrock §

Research §

• Cryptarchia research continuing:
  • Review of Cryptarchia sync algorithm completed
  • Work on Cryptarchia v2 research, including MCP proposal
  • Chain Synchronization Protocol refined and ready for review
• Continued work on Nomos Economic Model:
  • RDP requirements document
  • Nomos Valuation Tool development
  • Dashboard development for blobspace model
  • Continuing study of NMO as Money for Network State
• Network protocol documentation:
  • P2P Network Specification (WIP)

Development §

• Nothing to report

Nomos Bedrock Services §

Research §

• NomosDA developments:
  • ZODA parameters research:
    • Field extension solution explored for subspace distance check
    • Comparative analysis of four ZODA structure options
    • Data Benchmarking for Nomos DA v1 vs v2 updated with new calculations and graphs
  • NomosDA Reconstruction document finalized
• Blend Network progress:
  • Tier 4 Economic Incentives document updated and under review
  • Tier 5 Resilient Communication document drafted
  • Enhanced Blend Calculator (v2) for quantifying anonymity properties
  • Design considerations documentation: Resilient anonymous communication in Blend Network

Development §

• DA service improvements:
  • Dispersal, Replication and Sampling behavior tests
  • Node Membership and Address Book update synchronization
  • DA network behaviour refactor to use libp2p-stream
  • Migration of sampling process from DaBlob to DaLightBlobs
  • Issues with verifying large padded data fixed PR

Nomos Zones Ecosystem §

Research §

• SwapVM development:
  • Implementation continued PR
  • Recursive risc0 proof build issues addressed with deterministic docker build script
• Uniswap PoC implementation completed

Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling §

Development §

• Node improvements:
  • Investigation into service selection at startup time
  • Consistent libp2p version across nomos crates
  • Improvements planned for nomos-e2e-tests project
• Code quality improvements:
  • Introduce and enforce Clippy pedantic lints
  • Set up and enforce Clippy restriction lints
• Type safety enhancements:
  • Bounded duration implementation

Documentation §

• SMT vs IMT post:
  • Designing Nullifier Sets for Nomos Zones: Sparse vs Indexed Merkle Trees draft ready for review
• Whitepaper development:
  • Introduction and overview sections finalized, awaiting approval
• February 2025 Monthly Summary published
• Preparation for Cryptarchia V2 “sneak peek” article
• Q2 blog plan in development