2025-09-01 Nomos weekly

Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-09-01 §

Nomos Bedrock §

Research §

• Cryptography:

  • Circom Security Checks comprehensive audit completed with Thomas and Mehmet
  • Common Cryptographic Components updated with DST constants in appendix
  • Speed up block validation document prepared for batch verification optimization
  • Proof of Quota Specification rewritten for implementation clarity

• Analysis Research:

  • Most recent developments in anonymous communication (AC) systems research document created
  • Statistical mechanics approach to AC systems explored for Blend Network v2 analysis

• Cryptarchia:

  • Cryptareon: Scalable and Resilient Multi-Proposer Consensus improved with sections 2, 3, and 4 enhanced
  • Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Stake with Best-Possible Unpredictability draft continued for v2
  • Lottery Difficulty in Private PoS: The Case of Cryptarchia reviewed and marked green

Development §

• ZK Components:
  • KZG batch verification and Groth16 batch verification implementations prepared
  • Poseidon2 DST constants implementation for hash computations with direct DST usage optimization
  • Circuit static linking added to prevent dependency issues
  • Simplified makefiles for circuit integration clarity
  • Circom audit completion with comprehensive vulnerability checks
  • RISC0 dependency upgrade to latest stable version
  • Circuit integration improvements with static linking and simplified workflows
  • RISC0 update to v2.3.2 dependency upgrade
• Cryptarchia core:
  • IBD shutdown handling + sync test timeouts improvements for better error handling
• Ledger and Transaction Processing:
  • SDP ledger integration work in progress for locked notes handling and stake validation
  • Leader rewards in ledger implementation with minor fixes needed before merge
  • Wallet synchronization with cryptarchia robust approach developed with block-tagged wallet states
  • Remove rwlock from mempool publish trigger optimization

Nomos Bedrock Services §

Research §

• Blend Network:
  • Blend Network Specification small clarifications added for implementation support
  • Statistical mechanics approach exploration for Blend Network v2 analysis

Development §

• Blend Network:

  • Session event stream implementation in review for session transition
  • Blend service session integration service layer integration
  • Edge service session integration and Core service integration session transition completion
  • Gossipsub fallback mechanism for insufficient Blend network size
  • Blend header merge with public header consolidation
  • Redundancy factor for edge nodes ensuring message propagation reliability

• Data Availability:

  • Session forming in membership service from SDP block updates
  • Session id propagation to da-network service integration
  • DA network membership flow tests comprehensive coverage
  • DA share commitments retrieval sampling protocol integration tests

Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling §

Development §

• Code Quality and Testing:

  • Reduce compilation features to minimum needed for faster build times
  • Protocol version standardization to 1.0.0 across codebase
  • Integration testing framework initial design for comprehensive test coverage
  • Dependency optimization investigation for build performance improvements
  • NAT testing implementation for connectivity validation
  • NAT happy flow testing implementation for connectivity validation
  • Protocol versions bump to 1.0.0 reflecting spec finalization
  • Reduce dependency features to minimum needed set for faster compilation
  • WIP Integration testing framework initial design concepts

• API and Security:

  • API rate limiting implementation with request limits and timeouts
  • Axum upgrade for enhanced security features
  • Security improvements across HTTP API endpoints
  • API security improvements with request limits and timeout layers

Business Development §

• Conference and Events:

  • DarkPrague speaking engagement confirmed and announced

• Strategic Partnerships:

  • Liberland CTO meeting for potential land/business registry partnership on Nomos platform
  • Nodes.guru partnership discussions for node operator incentive programs

• Marketing and Community:

  • Grant program structures research with transferable tokens
  • Potential candidates for Discord and social media management identified

Documentation §

• Blog Posts:
  • The Blend Network blog post published
  • Cryptarchia Stake Inference technical draft completed
  • Nomos Monthly August 2025 draft prepared for publication