On The Verge of Stateless Clients
AI summary of the linked articleStateless clients, enabled by replacing Ethereum's Merkle Patricia Tree with Verkle trees, would let nodes verify blocks without storing the full state, which the article presents as a path to millions of verifying nodes. The article says a full node currently needs 2TB of SSD storage for state and 1.2TB for history, and that stateless clients rely on execution witnesses included with each block. It also states that Verkle trees could allow the gas limit to rise 3-10x, and that Verkle trees or an alternative are more likely to be included in the Osaka-F hardfork, tentatively scheduled for early 2026. |
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3 comments Hey chaskin, really appreciated how easy it is to follow, despite tackling an advanced topic. I have one question: you mentioned that some Ethereum researchers don't think that running a stateless node on a phone is practical quite yet. Do you know what are their arguments?  chaskin.ethSubmitter Thanks, glad you found it easy to follow! Good question - some researchers think that phones may not have the processing power or bandwidth needed. It's currently debated in the research community Interesting, IIRC, you can run an Ethereum node on a 25 MBit/s Internet, so that could be done on a phone if you are in the big city. The processing power & RAM might be a bigger challenge. Maybe with advancements in AI, we'd see more powerful phones as it'd make sense to compute these things locally instead of sending all our private data to ChatGPT. |
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