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Guillaume Ballet
@gballet
go-ethereum core dev at the Ethereum Foundation. Interested in scalability, privacy, and decentralized organizations.
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Apr 18, 2023
    What's up with verkle trees? We've been 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: it doesn't find in RAM, and needs at least a day for the translation to complete on a beefy machine.
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Mar 17, 2022
    I'm starting a series of threads to highlight some of the changes that come with stateless #Ethereum and #Verkle trees. Today, I'm going to talk about the changes to the block format.
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Dec 2, 2021
    Interested in implementing verkle trees in your clients, but find the spec daunting? @dankrad and I give a simple explanation of what the structure of a verkle tree looks like:
    Verkle tree structure | Ethereum Foundation Blog
    From blog.ethereum.org
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Mar 11, 2022
    A demo video of the Condrieu #verkle tree testnet. This is a single-client testnet, producing blocks with proofs of the prestate. This means clients won't need to sync the entire state to participate in the #Ethereum network. youtube.com/watch?v=cPLHFB…
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Jun 4, 2021
    Proof of concept: geth using verkle trees
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    May 17, 2022
    What does using the Condrieu #verkle testnet look like? A thread.
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Feb 22, 2024
    Slow and painful in the making, a shadowfork converting the Holesky state to verkle has finally occurred 🎉
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    May 6, 2022
    How did I not think about that ? 🤯
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Apr 14, 2022
    The Condrieu #verkle testnet is now open to the public. Landing page at condrieu.ethdevops.io
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Aug 27, 2022
    The dialogue has been going on since 2018. We have been aware of these problems before they materialized, and fixes to address them are actively worked on, and on the roadmap. Look for "verkle trees" (the verge), "stateless Ethereum" and portal network.
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    maggie love
    @maggielove_
    Aug 25, 2022
    Ethereum cannot be decentralized if the stack is not decentralized... Where is the dialogue on this? 69% of hosted nodes on the Ethereum Mainnet, with over 50% of that coming from Amazon Web Services (AWS), over 15% from Hetzner and 4.1% from OVH.
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Oct 15, 2022
    #DevConBogota is over and I am leaving with the feeling that, as a community, we are building something that will outlast us all. So proud to be a tiny part of this.
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Mar 26, 2020
    A blog post about converting the state tree from hexary to binary
    medium.com
    Ethereum state tree format change using an overlay
    One of the many problems affecting Ethereum is the way accounts and contract data are stored. The structure that has been chosen is called…
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Nov 7, 2023
    Proud to announce that my go-verkle repo has been moved to the Ethereum GitHub organization. github.com/ethereum/go-ve… Thanks to all contributors involved 🫡
    GitHub - ethereum/go-verkle: A go implementation of Verkle trees
    From github.com
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    Guillaume Ballet
    @gballet
    Dec 6, 2022
    Thanks to the unsinkable @parithosh_j The "Beverly Hills" verkle testnet is finally operational.