A witness is a proof of correct state axs spasically. In order to send you aneath one block, like us, who can you tell me if it's valid or not? Yeu would need to have this whole tense of gigabyts ermsifium state, otherwise you can't see it. And beseke with statelessness. What happens as we add these witnesses, these proofs that everything in this block had a certain state, and this was applied correctly,. We add that to the blocks, and then i can send you this block, and without knowing anything else, just by like, putting it in a piece of soft ware.
This week, Anna speaks with Dankrad Feist, a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. They talk about the future of the ETH client infrastructure, the merge, the difference between merkle trees and verkle tries, and more. They also explore how concepts that originated in the ZK research space have made their way into the ETH client stack.
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