Nomos weekly report

Researched the Nym mixnet architecture in depth in order to design our prototype architecture. (Link: https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-node/issues/273#issuecomment-1661386628)
Discussions about how to manage the mixnet topology. (Link: https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-node/issues/273#issuecomment-1665101243)

Implemented a prototype for building a Sphinx packet, mixing packets at the first hop of gossipsub with 3 mixnodes (+ encryption + delay), raw TCP connections between mixnodes, and the static entire mixnode topology. (Link: https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-node/pull/288)
Added support for libp2p in tests. (Link: https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-node/pull/287)
Added support for libp2p in nomos node. (Link: https://github.com/logos-co/nomos-node/pull/285)

Worked on PPoS design and addressed potential metadata leakage due to staking and rewarding.
Focus on potential bribery attacks and privacy reasoning, but not much progress yet.
Stopped work on Accountability mechanism and PPoS efficiency due to prioritizing bribery attacks.

Addressed two solutions for the bribery attack. Proposals pending.
Work on accountability against attacks in Carnot including Slashing mechanism for attackers is paused at the moment.
Modeled data decimation using a specific set of parameters and derived equations related to it.
Proposed solutions to address bribery attacks without compromising the protocol's scalability.

Analyzed data decimation in data availability problem. (Link: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gzqvbbmfnxyp)
DA benchmarks and analysis for data commitments and encoding. This confirms that (for now), we are on the right path.
Explored the idea of node sharding: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03331 (taken from Celestia), but discarded it because it doesn't fit our architecture.