'Nomos is the personified spirit, a daimon of law. Nomos is the animated law spirit within us, a habit or custom of sociopolitical behaviour. 'It is a concrete order of a people taking place through a continual threefold cycle between a set of three principles, which comes to be read onto society by individuals through externalisation and objectivisation, as well as the internalisation in each individual, and thus becomes assumed, spoken of, and placed into social discourse to be treated as common sense. 'The most important function of society is "nomosisation" — it is a shield against terror. Nomos provides us with a stability, predictability, a frame of reference in which to live.' - @Logos_state and @ethstatus co-founder @jarradhope_ on Nomos.

January was a good start to 2025 for Nomos, with significant progress in protocol specs, research refinements, and infrastructure enhancements. We're excited to make progress towards our next major milestones in February. It's going to be a big year!

Private Proof of Stake may seem like science fiction 🛸 In this article, we break down how Ouroboros Crypsinous - a consensus protocol built on Ouroboros Genesis and inspired by @Zcash - makes it happen.

Ouroboros was the first provably secure Proof of Stake consensus system, intro'd in 2017. It's used by blockchains inc. @Cardano, and several versions now exist. We did a deep dive into the historical development of the Ouroboros family of protocols. 📚

NomosDA is built to solve the data availability problem for scalable blockchains. But how does it compare to solutions from @Ethereum, @Celestia, and @AvailProject? 👇

2024 has been a milestone year for Nomos, with major progress on data availability, consensus, and Blendnet. Key components for the V1 prototype are nearly ready, with the team set to work on the initial prototype in 2025. Exciting developments ahead!

Ensuring data availability is crucial. However, this is a real challenge for modern decentralised systems, where scalability is paramount. NomosDA, the data availability scheme used by the Nomos network, addresses this challenge. Want to know how? 👇

And the winner of the best zkVM is… 🥁 Earlier this year, the Nomos team did an analysis of zkVMs for our Coordination Layer. Read our report, to find out why @RiscZero came out on top.

RT @jarradhope_: Despite what the status quo says, crypto is a solution to - and not a cause of - illicit financial flows. I go deeper into…

RT @Codex_storage: Codex November Updates are here! From our Decentralised Data Summit event in Bangkok, to presentations from the team…

While designing our tailor-made data availability solution - NomosDA, our research team had to decide which polynomial commitment scheme (PCS) to use. We analysed nine schemes, and Kate-Zaverucha-Goldberg (KZG) prevailed. Want to know why? 👇

RT @hackernoon: "Data may be the most valuable resource in an increasingly digital world, but it is also vulnerable", @Logos_network. http…

RT @Logos_network: Nation states, with their concentrations of power, incentivise corruption. At Parallel Society Congress, @jarradhope_…

RT @Logos_network: Reforming human governance is a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity. Listen as Logos cofounder @jarradhope_ opens Parall…

RT @Logos_network: Devcon was hectic but with the dust settling, we want to shout out all the network state pioneers who made Parallel Soci…

RT @Logos_network: At Parallel Society Congress, we invited pioneers working in crypto and network states to share their stories with us.…

RT @Codex_storage: Codex Community Call + AMA

@VitalikButerin Yes, we would have liked to use these methods, but given the priority on efficiency, there’s still some time before we can integrate them. This could be considered for future improvements 😉

Fast Reed-Solomon Interactive Oracle Proof of Proximity (FRI) was a top candidate for NomosDA’s choice of PCS, due to qualities including post-quantum security, and a lack of trust assumptions. See our analysis of FRI below! 👇