2025-04-14 Nomos weekly

Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-04-14 §

Nomos Bedrock §

Research §

• Finality Gadget research:
  • Progress on committee sampling algorithm investigation
• Network protocol research:
  • Nomos p2p network specification work in progress
  • NAT traversal considerations research completed
  • Nomos p2p network NAT solution specification ready for review
• Mantle Zone development:
  • Complete refactor of the Mantle Zone Specification finalized and ready for review
• Nomos Economic Model development:
  • Revised model implementation on GitHub
  • Preliminary Research: Block Reward Mechanisms in L1 Blockchains work in progress
  • Continuing exploration of money for Network States
• Unstructured Notes on Sovereign Rollups documentation

Development §

• Chain synchronization implementation:
  • Core algorithm implementation: PR #1236
  • Preparation for merging chain sync to master: PR #1223, PR #1230, PR #1231, PR #1232, PR #1233
  • Networking implementation: PR #1237
  • Cryptarchia v1 Chain Sync Networking Protocol specification drafted
• SDP implementation:
  • SDP service stub: PR #1217
• Mempool updates:
  • Refactoring to handle SDP messages (work in progress in branch)
• Kademlia peer discovery added to core libp2p network: PR #1154
• Node improvements:
  • Recovery fixes: PR #1234
  • Refactored node clients to drop unnecessary dependencies: PR #1244
• ZK implementation progress:
  • Circom circuits implementation to support ZK proofs for Mantle Zone

Nomos Bedrock Services §

Research §

• NomosDA developments:
  • NomosDA v2 Cryptographic Protocol Draft updated based on feedback
  • ZODA Implementation Details from Ligero Library notes prepared
• Blend Network progress:
  • Blend Protocol v1 undergoing team-internal review
  • Solution added for session time variation impact on cover traffic distribution
  • Active strategy specification detailed for Tier 5
  • Analysis of privacy versus communication resilience: Design considerations
  • Mathematical model of latency in active strategy defined

Development §

• Data Availability:
  • Bug fixes for DA, specifically 4 subnetwork configuration and missing samples

Nomos Zones Ecosystem §

Research §

• Sovereign Zones research:
  • Background research: Sovereign Rollups structured write-up with references
  • Sovereign Zone PoC Plan developed
  • Selected reth as the building block for RISC0 based approach
  • ZkSync offsite considerations personal notes prepared
• Offsite preparation:
  • Deep dive into reth docs and codebase
  • Brief exploration of zeth codebase
  • VM setup for the offsite in progress (users and SSH keys added)

Development §

• PoC development:
  • Reth-based binary for the offsite: PR #59
  • ZkSync fork created: GitHub repo
  • VM setup for offsite in progress

Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling §

• Nothing that fits this category exclusively