Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-08-11
Nomos Bedrock
Research
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Cryptoeconomics:
- Cryptoeconomics of Nomos nearly finalized with comprehensive fee markets details and complete overview section
- Blockspace Specification adapted to new requirements with storage references to be removed
- CPU identified as limiting factor for block construction (except for inscription operations)
- Market fee constructions documented for various economic markets with technical requirements analysis
- Anonymous Leaders Reward Protocol reviewed for integration
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Total Stake Inference:
- Preliminary Research: Total Stake Inference Analysis convergence speed and optimal learning rate analysis expanded for cases where bounds cannot be applied
- Total Stake Inference specification reviews completed with validation
- Testing of optimal convergence theories with simulation validation showing improved accuracy
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Cryptarchia:
- Cryptareon: Scalable and Resilient Multi-Proposer Consensus paper draft development continued with target for first complete draft
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Architecture:
- Bedrock Architecture Overview physical view section added mapping components to servers, process view pending
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Review Progress:
- Review Progress comprehensive tracking document for specification reviews
- Specifications to review all v1 documents reviewed with detailed comments
Development
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Cryptarchia Core:
- IBD (initial block download) multiple downloads improvement merged for better performance
- IBD integration tests and additional tests completed ensuring robust bootstrapping
- Orphan blocks handling main implementation with cleaner stream-based downloader state machine
- Orphan blocks integration testing successfully handling isolated nodes rejoining network
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ZK Components:
- Groth16 verifier implementation bridge between ark-groth16 proving and verification systems
- Circuit binaries setup in test GitHub workflow for automated testing
- Split circuit bundles into single-item packages for easier downloading
- Version tagging added to bundles and releases for better versioning
Nomos Bedrock Services
Research
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Data Availability:
- Preliminary Research: Impact of Omissions on Sampling Robustness fully reviewed and marked green with practical considerations
- NomosDA pricing mechanism adaptation planned to include permanent storage costs
- DA documents received detailed review pass with updates accordingly
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Blend Network:
- Blend Protocol duplicate connection resolution updated to use libp2p methods with multiple improvements
- Message Encapsulation Mechanism review completed and marked green after corrections
- Proof of Quota Specification clarified with all comments resolved, ready for implementation
Development
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Data Availability:
- Transaction formation in dispersal with TX dissemination, verification, and mempool publishing
- Historic membership usage service level code implementation for special sampling behavior
- Cumulative in-memory addressbook supporting both history and latest membership tracking
- Split sampling behaviour into request and response behaviours for code simplification
- Unnecessary join handle removal from DA swarms for cleaner implementation
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Blend Network:
- One-peer-one-connection implementation merged limiting core->core while allowing multiple edge->core
- Re-dialing on connection failures implementation with retry attempts before peer reselection
- Blake RNG scheduling replacing ChaCha20 for consistency
- Core->core and core->edge behaviour split merged for improved modularity and easier changes
Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling
Development
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Code Quality:
- Rust toolchain update to 1.89 for Nomos repository
- Overwatch update to 1.89 successfully merged
- NAT mapping protocols investigation for remaining protocols beyond UPnP-IGD using existing libraries
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Testing Infrastructure:
- Integration tests for orphan block handling ensuring fork recovery
- IBD integration tests improvements for abort on error and skip DA sampling for old blocks
- Blend stack component tests updates planned for new features
- Offline Grace Period feature planning for bootstrapping resilience
Business Development
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Conference Engagement:
- Presentation Slides for Liberland successfully delivered to audience of approximately 40 attendees at Liberland conference
- Personal invitation by Liberland president and founder Vit Jedlicka led to presentation opportunity
- Liberland land registry product identified as perfect use case for Nomos, with CTO engagement and follow-up scheduled
- Presentation coverage achieved good social media exposure generating multiple qualified leads requiring individual follow-up
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Strategic Partnerships:
- Meeting scheduled with Gelato Network/Arrakis founder Hilmar Orth to gather insights for Nomos Sovereign Roll-up product strategy
- Alignment calls with IFT team members (Corey, Marina, Kumaraguru, Pedro, Franck, VPavlin) on Waku and Codex node incentive programs
- Key insights gathered: 3000 node operators attracted via Nodes.guru with promised future token airdrops
- Potential collaborations identified with IFT partners including Kubetics and Cipher Node for future connectivity
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Marketing and Community:
- Brand strategy discussions with comms team (Laura Guzik) regarding Nomos vs Logos core positioning pending upper management decision
- Speaking engagements and educational campaigns planning before testnet launch
- Privacy Guardians membership exploration for Devconnect event collaboration opportunities
- Confirmation that hackathons haven’t delivered sustainable use cases based on multi-team feedback
- Strategy shift towards deploying example applications as successful developer attraction method (Status network model)
- Developer toolkit budget discussions with Status investments team for grants program
Documentation
- Blog Posts:
- Nomos Monthly June-July 2025 completed and scheduled for publication
- The Nomos Blend Network draft in progress
- Total stake inference blog article planning initiated for technical audience
- Litepaper finalization in progress with final reviews