Vitalik Buterin spoke about the advantages of Verkle Trees for Ethereum

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum project, spoke about his attitude to Verkle Trees technology. According to him, it will have a positive impact on Ethereum staking and the operation of the network as a whole.

Buterin explained that Verkle Trees is a new type of data structure. Unlike Merkle Patricia Trees, it uses a special type of hash known as a vector commitment.

In his publication, Buterin listed the main advantages of Verkle Trees:

• reduced hardware requirements for running nodes, which improves decentralization;
• the ability to set gas limits;
• Enhanced compatibility with various ZK-EVMs;
• thanks to fast synchronization, new validators can connect to the network immediately;
• Transferring evidence online will unlock many new features.

Currently, Ethereum validators must store significant amounts of data to verify transactions and maintain blockchain consistency. However, the planned update will allow you to run nodes that do not require recording the network status.

According to Buterin, the nodes will be able to work with a minimum amount of hard disk space, which will make synchronization almost instantaneous and improve the experience of the participants of the stakeout. At the time of writing, Verkle Trees is only available on the test network, but the team is working on launching an update on the mainnet.

Source: https://incrypted.com/vitalik-buterin-rasskazal-o-preimushestvah-verkle-trees-dlya-ethereum/