Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-10-20
Nomos Bedrock
Research
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Cryptography:
- LaBRADOR protocol document prepared with parameter derivation and proof sizes for potential Greyhound usage in DA v2
- Blaze Polynomial Commitment Scheme detailed study completed with additional protocol-related information
- Crypto audit report preparation initiated
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Cryptarchia:
- Cryptareon: Scalable and Resilient Multi-Proposer Consensus paper draft improved with sections 2/3/4/5 updated and section 2 ready for review
- Finality section discussions and improvements ongoing
- Cryptarchia v2 analysis efforts continued
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SDP Specifications:
- Service Declaration Protocol specification updated with session tracking information and minor corrections
- Service Reward Distribution Protocol updated with session snapshot computation and LIB information changes
- Mantle Transaction Encoding specification approved
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Blend Network:
- Blend Protocol specification updated with simplified binary representation length calculation for blending tokens using cover messages count
Development
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Cryptarchia Core:
- Genesis transaction initialization for chain service reviewed
- Block reconstruction review updates ongoing
- Blob validation during bootstrapping implementation in progress
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SDP, Ledger and Transaction Processing:
- SDP refactor merged
- Apply transaction to ledger merged removing dummy placeholder and updating integration tests
- Validate and reject invalid transactions merged implementing read-only validation to prevent invalid transactions from blocking block production
- SDP API for Declare/Withdrawn/Active messages implementation with API for submitting messages
- Update mantle opcodes merged
- Mantle transaction encoding implementation merged
- DummyZK serialization implementation for zksig compatibility with tx encoding
- Calculate tx fees using tx encoding implementation in progress
- SDP rewards implementation work initiated
- Block validation work in progress
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Wallet Integration:
- Wallet API for funding mantle transactions planned
Nomos Bedrock Services
Research
- Data Availability v2:
- Post-quantum candidate evaluation with ZODA identified as potentially best option
- Blaze benchmarking and comparison to Greyhound planned
Development
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Blend Network:
- Epoch transition support in Blend service merged into feature branch with session and epoch change handling
- Secret PoL pre-computation logic update merged using watch channels for mid-epoch startup support
- Fixed-size arrays for PoQ inputs merged replacing dynamically-sized vectors
- Switch to chain broadcast service for session updates implementation on hold pending chain broadcast service updates
- Activity proof computation merged for Blend rewarding mechanism
- ZK keys integration in Blend in progress
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Data Availability:
- Membership subscription in DA network from chain service implementation in progress
Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling
Development
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Circuits and Tooling:
- PACT PoC risc0 v3 update completed
- Simple risc0 rollup PoC for TPS estimation in progress
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Node:
- Block Explorer JSON deserialization fix merged
- Block Explorer PoC repository implementation with indexer and frontend showing blocks and transactions
Documentation
- Tutorials:
- Building a Light Node sovereign rollup tutorial section in progress