This one is for the nerds (I had to watch @yangl1996's talk ~3x to get comfy).Here's my attempt to summarize (and bastardize) Lei's slides and the engineering team's work.1. We created a new data structure that keeps the good and scraps the bad of EVM's MPT2. The codename is SALTBookmark for when you have a chance to learn something.MegaETH (@megaeth_labs):MegaETH has several key innovations that let us push scalability to the extreme.SALT has eliminated the bottleneck of updating state roots beyond what re ...

RT Ravenium (@0xRavenium)just got back from listening to @yangl1996 's talk at @StanfordSBA on SALT and honestly the presentation filled in so many gaps from what i researched earlierlei showed actual benchmarks of ethereum clients spending 10x more time updating merkle trees than executing transactions. like literally 1 second processing, 10 seconds updating proofsbut the insight that blew my mind was the "office building" analogy. he explained how merkle trees become sparse at deeper levels - top 4 floors ...