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What’s the point of a non-EVM chain? A Technical deep-dive with Zenllama

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The Importance of Data Accessibility in Blockchains

There is some point at which like the memory of a node is just like expensive because there's a lot of history and it's been running for a long time so this is kind of like the small block big block wars in the theory and versus Bitcoin right. So using that principle you arrive at a point where okay I can actually just store like some amount of historical state but then checkpoint that with cryptographically secured data. Now archive nodes and full nodes like the idea is that you have all that state but as these chains start to scale to infinity and these becomes like you know years and years and running there becomes a point where like you just have to trust what happened ten years ago if we believed

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