I think that offloading to Snarks is exactly what they were good for traditionally. Do we put the bridges back into this as well? I'm not sure it would, you know. But maybe philosophically, you could also say that about storage proofs, if you're looking at it, is a light client because maybe there is someone making an attack on you and you can just see some state of the blockchain. It's so nice the way you just said that taking what was verifiable by people to make it verifiable by proof. That's so cool. We still have not named this category.
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