2025-11-24 Logos Blockchain weekly

Logos Blockchain Weekly Update - 2025-11-24 §

Bedrock §

Research §

• Cryptarchia:

  • Areon: Latency-Friendly and Resilient Multi-Proposer Consensus paper draft finalized with reviews, nits, and cleaning completed across all sections, figures cleaned, and comments addressed

• Cryptography:

  • Privacy using RingCT Monero approach analysis completed showing less efficiency even with drastic optimizations requiring at least several million constraints per transaction
  • Update of ZKVM’s comparisons continued with risc0 achieving 0.3 TPS on RTX 4090
  • Circom circuit updated with Compression in Poseidon2 to reduce proving cost in nomos poc PR #106, nomos poc PR #105, official circuits, and rust code integration

Development §

• Cryptarchia Core:

  • Historic sampling integration merged

• SDP, Ledger and Transaction Processing:

  • Get commitments fallback to historic behavior merged
  • Reject stale tx in dispersal behavior merged
  • Chain service refactoring merged breaking chain-service cycles
  • SDP Wallet Adapter in progress replacing Mock Wallet Adapter
  • Distribute SDP rewards merged
  • SDP garbage collection merged

• Key Management:

  • KMS keys operator merged finalizing keys execution structure with double dispatch system for arbitrary operations
  • KMS operators from &mut self to Box merged
  • PoL secrets derivation opened with benches for naive algorithm

• Wallet:

  • Wallet REST API opened
  • Serde as Workspace Dependency merged

• Configuration:

  • Deployment-specific settings merged with support for deployment-bound values integrated into Blend
  • nomos-libp2p deployment-specific settings merged
  • Encapsulation layers as dynamic value merged removing const encapsulation count

• Types and Verification:

  • VerifiedProofOfQuota, VerifiedProofOfSelection, and VerifiedEncapsulatedMessage merged distinguishing locally-generated verified messages from remotely received unverified ones

Bedrock Services §

Research §

• Data Availability:

  • ZODA Overhead Calculations completed for Tensor and Hadamard variants showing high overhead requiring chunk-sampling-style improvements

• Blend Network

  • Blend Network Cryptography Audit Checklist created
  • Blend Paper Writing Project initiated
  • Statistical mechanics of anonymous communication systems GPA+ scenario analysis completed showing maximum anonymity possible with corrupted receiver node or corrupted sender nodes

Development §

• Blend Network:
  • Reward calculation in ledger and companion PR in review implementing proof validation as part of reward calculation
  • Blend activity proof reviewed
  • Blend activity proof integration reviewed

Road to Production, Testnet and Tooling §

Development §

• Testing Framework:
  • Testing Framework core updated with wallet added to plan configuration, UTXO transfer transactions workload replacing channel inscription ops, high level actions flow introduced for da and transaction actions, and chaos workload for randomly killing nodes
  • Docker Compose runner work commits continued
  • Kubernetes runner work commits continued

Documentation §

• Blog Posts:
  • Cryptarchia vs PoW draft completed
  • Logos Blockchain Documentation started