Nomos weekly report 14th August §

Network Privacy and Mixnet §

Research §

• Mixnet architecture discussions. Potential agreement on architecture not very different from PoC
• Mixnet preliminary design [Mixnet-Architecture-613f53cf11a245098c50af6b191d31d2]

Development §

• Mixnet PoC implementation starting [302]
• Implementation of mixnode: a core module for implementing a mixnode binary
• Implementation of mixnet-client: a client library for mixnet users, such as nomos-node

Private PoS §

• No progress this week.

Data Availability §

Research §

• Continued analysis of node decay in data availability problem
• Improved upper bound on the probability of the event that data is no longer available given by the (K,N) erasure ECC scheme [gzqvbbmfnxyp]

Development §

• Library survey: Library used for the benchmarks is not yet ready for requirements, looking for alternatives
• RS & KZG benchmarking for our use case 2D-Reed-Solomon-Encoding-KZG-Commitments-benchmarking-b8340382ecc741c4a16b8a0c4a114450
• Study documentation on Danksharding and set of questions for Leonardo [2D-Reed-Solomon-Encoding-KZG-Commitments-benchmarking-b8340382ecc741c4a16b8a0c4a114450]

Testing, CI and Simulation App §

Development §

• Sim fixes/improvements [299], [298], [295]
• Simulation app and instructions shared [300], [291], [294]
• CI: Updated and merged [290]
• Parallel node init for improved simulation run times [300]
• Implemented branch overlay for simulating 100K+ nodes [291]
• Sequential builds for nomos node features updated in CI [290]