This chapter explores the challenges of scalability in Ethereum due to the bloat in the state caused by the nodes in the Merkle tree. It discusses proposals to clean up history and the consideration of incentivizing history storage.
In this week's episode, we sit down with the Alex Vlasov and Alex Gluchowski from Matter Labs to discuss their approach to using zkSNARKs for scaling the transaction processing capacity of Ethereum. We chat about the inspiration for the Roll-up project, the Matter Labs implementation, their proposed Franklin network and more.