Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-03-31 §
Nomos Bedrock §
Research §
- Network protocol documentation:
- Finality Gadget research:
- Mantle specification work:
- Nomos Economic Model development:
- Model implementation on GitHub
- Continuing study of NMO as money for the Network State
- ZK implementation progress:
- Implementation of new PoL for the Payment partition
- Python script for generating valid inputs, proofs of membership, non-membership over BN254, and PoL
- Proofs taking less than a second to generate on laptop CPU, which is really nice performance
Development §
- Chain synchronization implementation:
- Node improvements:
- Bounded duration integration PR
- Automatic dependency graph generation PR
- Settings type removal cleanup PR
- NTP integration development started
- Overwatch framework improvements:
- Integrate the new overwatch feature into Nomos PR
- Pinning CI actions to avoid supply chain attacks: Overwatch PR & Nomos PR
- Add kademlia peer discovery prototype PR
- API improvements:
- HTTP APIs for validator and executor node stats PR
- Human-readable TTL for seen messages cache PR
Nomos Bedrock Services §
Research §
- NomosDA developments:
- Field Extension Benchmarks for Nomos DA v2 completed
- Best data ratio achieved: sending only 1/32 of original data to subnetworks (vs 1/256 fixed ratio in v1)
- Encoding time optimization: from minutes in v1 to around 4-5 seconds in v2 (estimated, not implemented)
- Blend Network progress:
Development §
- SDP core implementation:
- SDP core definitions and state transitions PR
- SDP ledger without garbage collection PR
- risc0 ci fixes PR PR PR
Nomos Zones Ecosystem §
Research §
Development §
- Replication request id PR
- LRU cache for seen-messages PR
- Improve caching PR
Documentation §