2025-09-29 Nomos weekly

Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-09-29 §

Nomos Bedrock §

Research §

• Cryptography:

  • General Cryptography Review To-Do List audit process ongoing with comprehensive repository reviews
  • DA cryptography audit identified issues with row commits hash size and DST in blob ID generation
  • improve DA from first principle DA v2 design conclusion with univariate polynomial approach using multi-openings for chunk sampling
  • FK20 Details and Benchmarks multi-opening documentation and proof generation benchmarks completed
  • Column Chunk Sampling Scenarios chunk sampling probability calculations for univariate and bivariate polynomial representations

• Cryptarchia:

  • Cryptareon: Scalable and Resilient Multi-Proposer Consensus paper draft improvements with section 5 revised and plots added
  • Cryptarchia v2 analysis ongoing

• Tokenomics:

  • Preliminary Research Dynamic Stake Estimation revised models with behavioral framework for validator entry/exit based on rewards vs stake ratios
  • PoS simulation development with data storage markets and validator behavioral modeling implementation
  • NomosDA Rewarding opinion calculation simplified to eliminate floating-point operations

Development §

• Cryptarchia Core:

  • Block reconstruction from network proposals implementation with review updates
  • Transactions storage for proposals initial design for proposal reconstruction
  • Persistent transaction storage in mempool updated design with mempool storing full transactions
  • Chainsync tip response height update merged
  • Abort IBD early on block processing merged
  • Chain-follower refactoring into bootstrapping and online types for improved logic handling
  • Blob validation during bootstrapping full scenario testing planned
  • Factor out chain-leader from chain-service breaking cyclic dependency for wallet integration
  • Drop CL references chain-leader refactor follow-up
  • Mempool maintenance and eviction engineering design for bounded memory usage, validation, and stale transaction eviction

• Ledger and Transaction Processing:

  • Import genesis block into ledger implementation
  • Membership information migration from membership service to ledger planned for rewards validation
  • Rewards validation work paused pending membership migration

• Wallet Integration:

  • Wallet integration with leader in progress with leader pulling notes from wallet rather than config

• ZK Components:

  • Derive Key Macro implementation for future-proof key integration
  • Integrate ZK key with KMS
  • Rethink KMS reverting to key dispatcher API
  • Mantle public key derivation implementation as per specification
  • Zeroization of mantle secret keys for KMS usage
  • Mantle pk derivation implementation
  • Migration to big endian representation in codebase in progress
  • Mantle signature implementation for KMS integration planned

• NAT and Network:

  • NAT traversal optimization for address handling concurrency issues
  • Fetching protocol for missing transactions exploration planned
  • Wire encoding big endian migration across codebase

Nomos Bedrock Services §

Research §

• Blend Network:

  • Statistical mechanics of anonymous communication probabilistic anonymity protocols with conditional Shannon entropy H(…|O) as anonymity measure
  • Average case anonymity E[H(…|O)] analysis showing uniform distribution maximizes anonymity
  • Simple sender anonymity example demonstrating adversarial reasoning requirements
  • Combinatorial entropy definition update planned for sender anonymity and adversarial reasoning

• Data Availability:

  • DA v2 research work ongoing with chunk sampling analysis and verification cost reduction exploration

Development §

• Blend Network:

  • Chain-leader integration design for PoL information subscription to enable proof of leadership quota generation
  • Blend PoL epoch info subscribe API closed in favor of updated implementation
  • PoQ verification input test coverage for both prove function outputs and reconstructed verifier inputs
  • Blend-PoQ integration unit tests for all stack interactions
  • PoQ verification input order fix caught during unit testing
  • Chain-leader service update for PoL winning slot subscription planned
  • Chain-follower service update for public epoch PoL info subscription planned

• Data Availability:

  • NomosDA Rewarding opinion aggregation and activity proof generation
  • Membership handler session ID update for DA network level
  • Opinion aggregator implementation with helper methods for SDP activity proof formation
  • Historic sampling opinion formation for old opinion events
  • Empty membership update event for bootstrap with empty peer set
  • Opinion aggregation PRs finalization in progress
  • Activity Proof generation in SDP service planned
  • Membership to ledger migration planned with session forming logic for rewards calculation

Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling §

Development §

• Code Quality and Testing:

  • CODEOWNERS file fix after chain service folder structure update
  • Clippy lints for overwatch matching nomos lints
  • Clippy lints enforcement for nomos workspace in review
  • Clippy lints enforcement for overwatch workspace in review
  • Test env var concurrency fix for PATH checking
  • Disable dependency graph generation pre-commit hook
  • Circom Circuits release documentation planned

• Node:

  • Nomos c-lib logos-core basic node functionality with dynamic library building and exposed start/stop API
  • Windows build planned
  • Block explorer integration consideration

Business Development §

• Conference Participation:

  • DarkPrague speaking engagement keynote scheduled for October 4th with conference starting October 3rd
  • Presentation preparation completed

• Strategic Partnerships:

  • Nomos Node Program Research part of ecodev activities
  • Nomos CRM update with statuses and meeting notes
  • Aztec research for node incentive programs
  • Final research recommendations for Nomos program in progress

• Marketing and Community:

  • Nomos Ecosystem Map updated with potential partners

Documentation §

• Blog Posts:

  • SDP blog post publication planned
  • Nomos Monthly September draft planned

• Tutorials:

  • Building a Sequencer SR tutorial section completed
  • Building a Prover SR tutorial section completed
  • Prover section completion planned