---
title: Nomos Consulting
tags:
  - "2025q1"
  - "acz"
  - "nomos"
draft: false
description: "Creating a consulting document on the specification and 
architecture of the Nomos documents"

---

`vac:acz:nomos:2025q1-nomos-consulting`

Creating a consulting document on the specification and 
architecture of the Nomos documents
## Description

ACZ offers review consulting services to Nomos, 
acting as a bridge between Nomos researchers and engineers, 
facilitating faster and more efficient communication between the two groups.

### Narratives

By utilizing the Nomos Consulting commitment, 

we will reinforce the Conduit of Expertise narrative by:
* The Nomos specifications will be reviewed and refined.
* Addressing any potential gaps in the architecture, whether theoretical or practical, 
if any are identified
* Improve communication between Nomos researchers and developers.

We will also strengthen the Premier Research Destination narrative by: 
* This will enable the Nomos project to be more effectively integrated 
and introduced into the ecosystem.

## Task List

### Zk Consulting Nomos 1
* fully qualified name: `vac:acz:nomos:2025q1-nomos-consulting:zk-consulting-nomos-1`
* owner: Marvin
* status: done
* start-date: 2024/12/20
* end-date: 2025/1/05

### Description
Provide feedback Nomos' document 
[analysis of failures in mix networks](https://www.notion.so/Analysis-of-failures-in-mix-networks-feeef349720842759c59785af71c7c59).
This entails checking the probabilistic arguments and presentation to make sure that the document can be followed by a general user.


### Deliverables
- Provide comments for Nomos team to address in the document (and corresponding overleaf).
- Add proofs to these documents as needed.


### Zk Consulting Nomos 2
* fully qualified name: `vac:acz:nomos:2025q1-nomos-consulting:zk-consulting-nomos-2`
* owner: Marvin
* status: done
* start-date: 2025/1/06
* end-date: 2025/1/24

### Description
Provide feedback Nomos' document 
[analysis of randomly generated mix networks](https://www.notion.so/Analysis-of-randomly-generated-mix-networks-6246ab47a8e34ac0bc7b561d32680e34).
This entails checking the probabilistic arguments and presentation 
to make sure that the document can be followed by a general user.


### Deliverables
- Provide comments for Nomos team to address in the document (and corresponding overleaf).
- Add proofs to these documents as needed.

### Zk Consulting Nomos 3
* fully qualified name: `vac:acz:nomos:2025q1-nomos-consulting:zk-consulting-nomos-3`
* owner: Marvin
* status: done
* start-date: 2025/1/27
* end-date: 2025/1/31

### Description
Provide feedback Nomos' document 
[analysis of correlation functions](https://www.notion.so/Analysis-of-correlation-functions-12f8f96fb65c8162b234ee4200c4917a). 
This entails checking the probabilistic arguments and presentation 
to make sure that the document can be followed by a general user.


### Deliverables
- Provide comments for Nomos team to address in the document (and corresponding overleaf).
- Add proofs to these documents as needed.

### Zk Consulting Nomos 4
* fully qualified name: `vac:acz:nomos:2025q1-nomos-consulting:zk-consulting-nomos-4`
* owner: Marvin
* status: done
* start-date: 2025/2/03
* end-date: 2025/2/07

### Description
Provide feedback Nomos' document 
[analysis of queuing in the mix node](https://www.notion.so/Analysis-of-queuing-system-in-the-mix-node-12f8f96fb65c819a8214f4a0dd9e7460). 
This entails checking the probabilistic arguments and presentation 
to make sure that the document can be followed by a general user.

### Deliverables
- Provide comments for Nomos team to address in the document (and corresponding overleaf).
- Add proofs to these documents as needed. 

### Zk Consulting Nomos 5
* fully qualified name: `vac:acz:nomos:2025q1-nomos-consulting:zk-consulting-nomos-5`
* owner: Marvin
* status: done
* start-date: 2025/2/07
* end-date: 2025/2/21

### Description
Provide feedback Nomos' document [analysis of latency](https://www.notion.so/Analysis-of-latency-12f8f96fb65c81b09ba5ea1200315e97). 
This entails checking the probabilistic arguments and presentation to make sure that the document can be followed by a general user.

### Zk Consulting Nomos 6
* fully qualified name: `vac:acz:nomos:2025q1-nomos-consulting:zk-consulting-nomos-6`
* owner: Marvin
* status: started (80%)
* start-date: 2025/2/24
* end-date: 2025/3/07

### Description
Provide feedback Nomos' document [analysis of anonymity](https://www.notion.so/Analysis-of-anonymity-12f8f96fb65c8134b3f4d9a091c02408). 
This entails checking the probabilistic arguments and presentation to make sure that the document can be followed by a general user.

### Deliverables
- Provide comments for Nomos team to address in the document (and corresponding overleaf).
- Add proofs to these documents as needed.

## Zk Consulting Nomos 7
fully qualified name: `vac:acz:ift:2024q1-think-tank:zk-consulting-nomos-4`
owner: Marvin
status: started (0%)
start-date: 2025/3/10
end-date: 2025/3/21

### Description
Provide feedback Nomos' document [broadcasting on trees](https://www.notion.so/Broadcasting-on-Trees-1578f96fb65c803ea935d9b8c803cbe4). 
This entails checking the probabilistic arguments and presentation to make sure that the document can be followed by a general user.

### Deliverables
- Provide comments for Nomos team to address in the document (and corresponding overleaf).
- Add proofs to these documents as needed.