Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-07-21
Nomos Bedrock
Research
- Cryptoeconomics:
- Cryptoeconomic thoughts plan documented for adopting TKE’s proposed PKI for block rewards
- Work initiated on defining PKI parameters for each service and for leaders
- Target justification and reward distribution strategies under development
- Genesis Block:
- Bedrock Genesis Block specification finalized and marked green
- Cryptarchia v2 Analysis:
- On the Closest Common Ancestor (CCA) Rule in v2/v2-prime draft analysis completed
- Privacy-Preserving Best-Possible Unpredictable Proof-of-Stake (Part II) exploring alternative PPoS mechanisms
- Total Stake Inference:
- Total Stake Inference v2 Notes equation derivation showing ~15% underestimation in total stake
- Preliminary Research: Total Stake Inference Analysis consolidating simulation validation results
- Stability and convergence speed analysis completed with optimal learning rate derivation
- Service Declaration Protocol:
- Service Declaration Protocol Specification updated with session length parameters
Development
- Cryptarchia Core:
- Initial fork choice rule selection refactoring in progress
- IBD (initial block download) implementation under review
- Initial Block Download integration testing completed
- Chain service refactoring: #1431 & #1438 for improved code organization
- Networking Enhancements:
- Orphan blocks random peers in parallel implementation for improved efficiency
- Sync network protocol timeouts handling added
- Ledger and Transaction Processing:
- Support for processing LedgerTxs implementation
- Update gas calculations to follow new mantle specifications merged
- Mempool item processing integration into node completed
- SDP refactoring moving state machine and definitions to nomos-core
- Cryptographic Utilities:
- RNG updates across codebase for standardization
- ZK Components:
- Witness Generator Compilation for Linux, Windows and OSX completed
Nomos Bedrock Services
Research
- Data Availability:
- Analysis of rewarding in data availability network completed and marked green
- Preliminary Research: Impact of Omissions on Sampling Robustness initial justification drafted
- DA subnetworks assignations session randomness mechanism added
- NomosDA specification suite marked green 🟢
- Blend Network:
- Blend Protocol Version 1 updated to use Blake2b everywhere instead of ChaCha
- Iteration 14 minimum network size analysis for both Blend and DA completed
- Message encapsulation specification improvements with code blocks planned
Development
- Data Availability:
- Separate addressbook and membership abstraction layer completed
- Membership DA storage RocksDB implementation in progress
- Commitment retrieval via DA network protocol over QUIC streams completed
- Subnetwork assignations integration work in progress
- TX dispersal before blob in DA development planned
- Blend Network:
- Edge NetworkBehaviour implementation with refactoring
- Edge Service implementation with refactoring
- Core-Edge Proxy Service initial implementation (without core<>edge switching)
Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling
Development
- Testing Infrastructure:
- Initial Block Download integration testing framework established
- Orphan block handling improvements for chain service stability
- Node Infrastructure:
- Service selection and role-based configuration improvements
- NAT traversal and networking protocol enhancements
Business Development
- Strategic Planning:
- Nomos Testnet Node Incentive Program plan drafted
- Product-market fit research and partner exploration ongoing
- Privacy bridges comparative analysis initiated
Documentation
- Research Documentation:
- Nomos Dictionary draft prepared for standardizing terminology
- Marketing Materials:
- Litepaper draft mostly complete, pending use cases and team bio
- The GHOST Fork Choice Rule And Why Nomos Doesn’t Use It blog post draft in progress