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.

Here are some links for this episode:

• Episode 120: ZKPs in Ethereum with Vitalik Buterin & Justin Drake
• Episode 187: The Evolution of ETH 2.0 with Teku’s Ben Edgington
• Dankrad’s website
• "Why it's so important to go stateless" by Dankrad Feist
• Verkle Tree Summary from Vitalik and Dankard
• PEEPanEIP #46: Verkle tries for Ethereum state with Dankrad Feist

Look out for ZK Hack  kicking off October 26th — a multi-round online event with workshops and puzzle solving competitions. Put together by this podcast and the ZKValidator and supported by all of our fantastic sponsors. Think Hackathon meets CTF meets Dark Forest round based competition. There will be a leaderboard and prizes. And deep dive learning sessions with the best teams in the space. Signup & Join the discord!

Thank you to this week’s sponsor Aleo! Aleo a new public Layer-1 blockchain tailor-made for building private applications.

Check out the website, or roll up your sleeves and visit leo-lang.org to start building.

Aleo also invites the community to participate in an ongoing setup ceremony for trustlessly generating the system parameters at setup.aleo.org.

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