Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-04-07
Nomos Bedrock
Research
- Finality Gadget research:
- Progress on the design of two-level finality proposal
- Further study of “safe” Ghost variant and Peras for finality gadget design
- Committee sampling algorithm investigation continues
- Network protocol research:
- Mantle Zone development:
- Complete refactor of the Mantle Zone Specification
- Introduction of unshielded note set to support staking/slashing
- Transaction model and gas model for Mantle transaction fees established
- Method for pricing blobs by usage developed
- Nomos Economic Model development:
- Revised model implementation on GitHub
- Continuing study of NMO as money for the Network State
- Blockspace Market for Nomos ready for team review
Development
- Chain synchronization implementation:
- Kademlia peer discovery added to libp2p core network: PR #1154
- SDP implementation:
- SDP service: PR #1217
- Node improvements:
Nomos Bedrock Services
Research
- NomosDA developments:
- NomosDA v2 Cryptographic Protocol Draft prepared and open for feedback
- Ligero vs Brakedown comparison completed
- Blend Network progress:
- Nomos Blend Network Economic Incentives tier document revisions
- Continued work on Blend Protocol v1 complete specification
- Privacy vs. resilience analysis for Tier 5: Design considerations
- Updated Proof of Quota Specification to include ownership of private key
Development
- ZK implementation progress:
- Circom circuits implementation to support ZK proofs needed for v1
- DA verifier fix for larger subnets: PR #1222
Nomos Zones Ecosystem
Research
- Sovereign Zones research:
- Finalized Preliminary Sovereign Zones Research
- Decision to use single sequencer/prover with many validators approach for PoC (although we would not build validators in this PoC)
- Polygon-based sovereign zone PoC preliminary research completed
Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling
Development
- Creating GitHub issues to track test failure problems: Nomos issue #1211
- Testnet and node config fixes: PR #1208
- Service startup selection improvements:
- Issue with linked draft PRs: GitHub issue #1171
- Update to Rust 1.86: Nomos PR #1213 & Overwatch PR #72
Documentation
- Nomos Monthly - March 2025 published
- Whitepaper work continues