Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-06-30
Nomos Bedrock
Research
- P2P Network
- Nomos wire format specification development in progress addressing network message encoding standards
- Cryptarchia:
- Cryptarchia v1 Protocol Specification and Mantle Specification marked as green and finalized
- Block Construction, Validation and Execution Specification went green then back to red for upgraded version with block reconstruction section added
- Bedrock Genesis Block early draft specification development initiated
- Cryptarchia v2 Analysis:
- On Window Referencing, and Block Generation Rate in Cryptarchia v2/v2-minus security analysis report completed
- Lachesis Protocol study notes completed as part of alternative consensus mechanism exploration
- Mantle and SDP improvements:
- Service Declaration Protocol Specification aligned with latest Mantle changes
- Preliminary Research Gas cost Determination first version drafted with recommendations for gas values division by market
- Cryptographic components:
- Common Cryptographic Components completed and marked green
- Trusted Setup Ceremony Specification comments addressed with switch from multiplicative to additive notation for improved clarity
- Tokenomics:
- Block Rewards Specifications finalized and awaiting feedback
- Wallet:
- Wallet Technical Standard completed and marked green
Development
- Cryptarchia Core:
- Initial Block Download (IBD) implementation work in progress with preparation PRs merged:
- Fix flaky two_nodes_happy test addressing premature block pruning issue
- Mantle Implementation:
- Updated ledger structure merged to reflect new Mantle specifications
- Partial PoL v2 changes merged preparing structure for new Proof of Lock
- Removed unnecessary hash bound merged
- Networking:
- Block fetching logic completed for bootstrapping networking
- Wire format specification work in progress with network message encoding issues identified
- Forkable sync streams implementation for reduced complexity in blend components
Nomos Bedrock Services
Research
- Data Availability:
- NomosDA Rewarding QoS measurement mechanism adjustments completed
- Chunk Retention Period Discussion and Proposal drafted to encourage longer chunk storage through modified DA rewarding
- Analysis of rewarding in data availability network optimal threshold analysis completed showing N/2 as optimal threshold for rewarding system
- Blend Network:
- Blend Protocol Version 1 remains finalized
- New scheduling algorithm brought up to specification compliance
Development
- Data Availability:
- DA membership bootstrapping from membership service merged
- HTTP endpoint for integration tests under review
- Membership service integration tests under review
- Blend Network:
- New message encapsulation system fully integrated across multiple PRs:
- Encapsulation implementation initial version
- Signature verification merged
- Ephemeral keys merged
- Integration merged
- New Blend scheduler and integration merged
- Multi-consumer stream implementation draft for session clocks
- New message encapsulation system fully integrated across multiple PRs:
Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling
Development
- Testing and Quality:
- Two nodes happy test flaky test fixed and un-ignored
- Multiple test stability improvements across the codebase
- Node Infrastructure:
- Service selection via CLI arguments enabling role-based node configuration
- NAT traversal state machine integration completed on feature branch with UPnP IGD support being evaluated
- Code Quality:
- YAML serialization compatibility improvements for cryptographic keys
- Various bug fixes and optimization improvements merged