2025-09-22 Nomos weekly

Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-09-22 §

Nomos Bedrock §

Research §

• Cryptography:

  • DA cryptography audit ongoing with available code reviewed - audit paused to focus on NomosDA v2 implementation
  • NomosDA v2 Study Notes univariate vs bivariate polynomial commitment scheme optimizations explored
  • Single opening and multi-opening proof generation speed comparisons initiated for univariate setting
  • FK20 multi-opening details and chunk sampling probabilities planned for bivariate PCS analysis
  • improve DA from first principle exploration document with toy implementations for complexity analysis

• Cryptarchia:

  • Cryptareon: Scalable and Resilient Multi-Proposer Consensus paper draft improved with FC conference version submitted
  • Cryptareon simulations results integrated with revised Section 5
  • Analysis efforts for Cryptarchia2/Cryptareon proposal continued

• Tokenomics:

  • Preliminary Research Dynamic Stake Estimation first version of dynamic stake estimation model prepared
  • PoS simulation development ongoing with data storage markets and validator behavioral model implementation planned

Development §

• ZK Components:

  • PoL migration to groth16 merged completing RISC0 removal
  • Remove all risc0 mentions cleanup completed
  • Updated epoch nonce to use poseidon2 implementation merged
  • Redesign integration KMS encoding and keys redesign with ZK key integration
  • Message-based API redesign PoC exploration for KMS
  • KMS redesign finalization planned with ZK integration completion

• Cryptarchia Core:

  • Streaming blocks to the SDP service during bootstrapping implementation in review
  • Check remaining blocks in IBD to enable blob validation in review
  • Blob validation during bootstrapping with additional refactoring PRs in review
  • Block reconstruction work ongoing for proposal-based block structure

• Ledger and Transaction Processing:

  • Transaction storage for proposals enabling full block reconstruction from transaction references
  • Mempool backed by permanent storage planned with transaction hashes in memory and disk persistence

• Storage and Performance:

  • Avoid deserialisation in block streaming chain service optimization merged
  • Tokio console integration for async task lifecycle profiling
  • pprof profiler with flame graph generation for CPU profiling
  • RocksDB benchmarking planned with production-like data
  • Proposal construction logic implementation anticipated

• Wallet Integration:

  • Wallet Service completed requiring leadership module integration
  • Wallet Crate merged
  • Chain-leader extraction from chain-service planned for wallet-PoL integration

• C FFI Layer:

  • nomos-c PR WIP with start/stop node functionality and API exposure for logos-core integration

Nomos Bedrock Services §

Research §

• Data Availability:

  • NomosDA Rewarding opinion system design with peer performance tracking during sampling
  • Activity proof generation specification for reward distribution
  • Sorting by provider ID recommended for declaration ordering consistency

• Blend Network:

  • Statistical mechanics of anonymous communication anonymity measures for probabilistic protocols explored
  • Conditional Shannon entropy H(…|O) vs combinatorial Boltzmann entropy S(O) relationship established
  • Min and average entropy measures for worst-case and average-case anonymity studied
  • Formalisation of adversarial models planned including global passive adversary with corrupted nodes and active adversaries

Development §

• Blend Network:

  • Blend core crates generic proof support merged
  • Mock proof generator and verifier integration in review
  • Blend service parameters retrieval discussion initiated for actual proof generation
  • Chain service API endpoint design for proof parameters
  • Membership service missing features implementation planned
  • Blend test coverage extension planned

• Data Availability:

  • Membership service storage layer merged enabling in-flight state recovery
  • Emit sampling opinions from current sampling behavior for DA session performance tracking
  • Extend membership handler to provide session id for sampling opinion context
  • Emit historic sampling opinions for S-1 session reward calculations
  • Opinion tracker implementation planned in da-network service for aggregation
  • Activity proof generation in SDP service planned

Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling §

Development §

• Performance Infrastructure:

  • Tokio console integration providing real-time async task monitoring
  • pprof profiler with flame graph generation for CPU bottleneck identification

• Node Integration:

  • C FFI layer implementation in progress for logos-core plugin integration
  • Block explorer design work planned
  • nomos-c PR completion and merge planned

• Code Quality:

  • Rust 1.90 update merged for Nomos
  • Rust 1.90 Overwatch update completed
  • Rust 2024 edition migration for workspace consistency in review
  • Remove dependencies_graph.dot moved to README documentation

Business Development §

• Conference and Events:

  • Logos Circle Rome Meetup coordinated during ETHRome
  • Dark Prague presentation preparation ongoing

• Strategic Partnerships:

  • Sphinx and Degen.House technical question follow-ups with leads
  • Nomos Node Program Research ecodev plan development
  • Nomos Ecosystem Map v1/v2 coordination
  • Q4 2025 Logos stack Ecodev priorities document for Nomos objectives

Documentation §

• Blog Posts:

  • SDP blog review process continued
  • Project vision blog content plans discussed

• Tutorials:

  • Getting Started sovereign rollup tutorial section written
  • Building a Sequencer tutorial section completed
  • Prover tutorial work planned