Guillaume Ballet

@gballet.bsky.social

Very productive week at the geth offsite. A few decisions impact verkle: - While data will never be deleted from the verkle tree in normal operation, our deep reorg code needs support for it, as it relies on reverse-diffs to reorg past the 128-depth limit.

* @gballet.bsky.social is Geth core dev at the Ethereum Foundation. He focuses on evolutions to the protocol and bringing research ideas to fruition. His talk provides a high-level introduction to verkle sync and proposes a separation between attesters and block proposers.

Bild

What's up with verkle trees? We've been busy working on the conversion from the current merkle tree to a verkle tree. This is a challenging problem, because the amount of data is huge. This means it doesn't find in RAM, and needs at least a day for the translation to complete on a beefy machine.