2025-05-06 Nomos weekly

Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-05-06 §

Offsite log §

• Architecture workgroup
• Sovereign Zone workgroup
• Validium workgroup
• DA Research workgroup
• Support and Experimentation workgroup

Nomos Bedrock §

Research §

• Cryptarchia development:
  • Eventual finality proposal for Cryptarchia V1 in progress
  • Block proposal specification being finalized: Block Proposal Specification
  • Planning for total stake inference simulations following offsite discussions
• Mantle Zone development:
  • Rework of the Mantle Spec to remove shielded notes in progress
  • Planning for specification of rewards system (leaders and services)
• Chain sync improvements:
  • Revisiting Chain sync networking spec based on new Chain sync core algorithm specification

Development §

• Mantle transaction development:
  • Mantle Tx definitions implementation in node
• SDP implementation:
  • Membership service architecture defined to stream events from SDP and store snapshots in appropriate abstraction for other services (DA, BLEND, etc.)
  • Update SDP service to support membership service in progress
  • Removing ActivityContract in the SDP implementation to sync with updated spec
• Database improvements:
  • SurrealDb benchmark completed
  • Starting implementation of new abstraction layer for DB (focusing on Chain sync relevant parts)
• Block storage optimization:
  • Work on block pruning from storage
  • Introducing a storage adapter to store finalized blocks in DB while retaining the rest in memory for quicker access

Nomos Bedrock Services §

Research §

• Data Availability advancements:
  • Updates to DA v1.1 cryptographic protocol and network documents
  • DA encoding specs updated
  • Beginning work on DA rewarding document based on v1 approach discussed during offsite
• Blend Network progress:
  • Review of Nomos Blend Network: Tier 5 Resilient Communication nearing completion
  • Review and finalization of “Design considerations for the resilient and anonymous communication in the Blend Network” document
  • Final review of economics for “Blend Protocol v1”
  • Planned review of “Analysis of Nomos Anonymous Communication System” documents:
    • “Communication on Trees” document
    • “Analysis of queuing system in the mix node” document
  • Analysis of statistical properties of DA rewarding: documenting analysis completed so far

Development §

• Data Availability implementation:
  • DA v1.1 implementation fixes related to offsite decisions
  • Investigation of DA issues in testnet related to DA Share retrieval (no fixes required):
    • Identified deployment branch discrepancy between testnet and zone POCs
    • Confirmed DA Shares streaming configuration in testnet proxy is suitable

Nomos Zones Ecosystem §

Research §

• Validium PoC documentation:
  • Finalizing Validium PoC documentation for reproducibility

Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling §

• Overwatch improvements:
  • Lifecycle enhancements for more granular control over services
  • Moving ServiceHandle functionality into ServiceRunner to maintain consistent architecture
  • Fixing issues arising from refactoring
• Wallet development:
  • Design work for wallet’s core components started
• Documentation progress:
  • Nomos Whitepaper ready for internal review
  • Nomos Monthly for April draft in progress
  • Native Zones vs Sovereign Zones blog article in planning