Nomos Weekly Update - 2025-11-03
Nomos Bedrock
Research
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Cryptography:
- NomosDA v2 Comparison updated with explanations and revised calculations using new parameters
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Cryptarchia:
- Cryptareon: Scalable and Resilient Multi-Proposer Consensus paper draft improved with sections 1/2/3/4/5/6 updated and ready for review, addressing FC reviewer comments and first round of internal review
- Aeron paper throughput calculation subsection added
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Blend Network:
- Blend Protocol specification updated with clarifications on release rounds and their interaction with cover message release logic and block proposal encapsulation
- Statistical mechanics of anonymous communication analysis completed showing maximum average entropy achieved when most random distribution is used, demonstrating highest anonymity against adversary
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Zones Performance tests
- Rollup PoC performance evaluation completed with privacy zk-rollup achieving 0.8 TPS for ledger transition on RTX 4090
Development
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Cryptarchia Core:
- Conditional blob validation by block slot implemented
- Time service API for block slot queries implemented
- Proposal construction and block reconstruction with peers constructing and gossiping proposals instead of blocks, reconstructing blocks from proposals using locally available transactions
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SDP, Ledger and Transaction Processing:
- SDP API logic implementation merged for signing and posting declare, withdrawn and active messages
- HTTP API for posting declare, withdrawn and active messages implemented
- Sampling service subscription to mempool with mempool-triggered sampling replaced by subscription-based approach
- Reward scaffolding merged
- DA rewards implementation opened
- Rename ‘commitments’ to ‘utxos’ merged
- MantleTx signing API merged enabling wallet to sign Mantle transactions
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Tooling and Node:
- Rust 1.91 toolchain update for nomos and Overwatch update
Nomos Bedrock Services
Development
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Blend Network:
- Blend service recovery merged with initial structure and core quota support
- Recovery of processed messages merged enabling node recovery within same session
- Finalize transition from membership to chain broadcast service merged
- Remove core redundancy parameter merged
- Complete last session transition merged fixing session transition bug
- Session transition tests and refactoring merged for Blend core service
- Merkle proof tests and fixes in progress
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Data Availability:
- Remove membership service merged with Blend and DA subscribing to chain service for session membership updates
- Channel blob session number added to disseminated transactions
Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling
Development
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Circuits and ZK:
- nomos-circuits release restructuring completed with proving and verifying keys built in releases and single artifact per target
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Testing:
- Mantle channel ops integration testing implemented testing channel creation, blob publishing, and ledger updates
- Mantle SDP ops integration testing implemented testing SDP Declare, Activate, and Withdraw transactions
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Block Explorer:
- Block Explorer PoC implementation completed with indexer and frontend showing blocks and transactions
Documentation
- Tutorials and Blog Posts:
- Blend Encapsulation blog post draft completed