2025-04-21 Nomos weekly

Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-04-21 §

Nomos Bedrock §

Research §

• P2P Network protocol development:
  • Nomos p2p network specification finalized, under review
  • Nomos p2p network NAT solution specification completed
  • P2P Network Bootstrapping specification under review
• Mantle Zone development:
  • Complete refactor of the Mantle Zone Specification finalized and reviewed
  • Block Validation personal notes on fee distribution among pools in Polkadot and Cardano
  • Review of blockspace market for transaction fee considerations
• Cryptarchia research:
  • Cryptarchia for Sovereign Zones new idea for improving Cryptarchia
• Nomos Economic Model development:
  • Transaction Fee Specifications initial specs completed
  • WIP Improvement Over NomosDA Fee Market Plan research review
  • Preliminary Research: Network States in Practice and on Nomos exploration work
• Chain sync
  • Cryptarchia v1 Chain Sync Networking Protocol specification drafted

Development §

• Chain synchronization implementation:
  • Core algorithm implementation: PR #1236
  • Networking implementation: PR #1237
  • Optimization identified to simplify chain sync by reusing regular block processing logic
• SDP implementation:
  • SDP service stub: PR #1217
• ZK implementation progress:
  • Circom circuits implementation reviewed for Mantle Zone
• NAT traversal:
  • NAT traversal state machine core PoC work planned

Nomos Bedrock Services §

Research §

• NomosDA developments:
  • NomosDA v2 Cryptographic Protocol Draft updated with detailed security assumptions
• Blend Network progress:
  • Blend Protocol v1 completed internal review, moved to public directory
  • Nomos Blend Network: Tier 5 Resilient Communication design document created, undergoing internal review
  • Mathematical analysis of privacy versus communication resilience: Design considerations
  • Analysis of block generation impact on requirements for cover messages traffic completed: Design considerations

Development §

• Data Availability:
  • WIP DA Encoder error handling and graceful failure instead of panics: PR #1245

Nomos Zones Ecosystem §

Research §

• Sovereign Zones research:
  • Sovereign Zone PoC Plan outline prepared for offsite presentation
  • ZkSync offsite considerations documentation updated

Development §

• PoC development:
  • Publish SZ blocks to DA: PR #65
  • VM setup for offsite completed despite challenges with GPU libraries

Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling §

• Overwatch improvements:
  • Lifecycle handling implementation in progress for more granular control over services
  • PR #74 for Overwatch improvements
• Node improvements:
  • Refactored node clients to drop unnecessary dependencies: PR #1244
  • Codebase improvements: PR #1238, PR #1240