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The Merkle Tree Structure in Ethereum
There's like two kinds of Merkle trees. One is dense, where essentially when you want to add new elements of the tree, you just do this rightmost thing and you just be adding to the right. And then there's this notion of sparse MerKle trees or like ordered leaves, I guess, or tries. That's the kind of structure that we're using when we're talking about seamless and parakeet. We're using the sparse Merkle tree tree. Okay. Tell me a little bit about compaction because I didn't quite fully parse that into my brain on how you're able to achieve it.