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Introduction to Merkle Patricia Trie.

Merkle Patricia Trie Copy .md Copy .md Edit page (opens in a new tab) On this page The state of Ethereum (the totality of all accounts, balances, and smart contracts), is encoded into a special version of the data structure known generally in computer science as a Merkle Tree. This structure is useful for many applications in cryptography because it creates a verifiable relationship between all the individual pieces of data entangled in the tree, resulting in a single root value that can be used to prove things about the data. Ethereum's data structure is a 'modified Merkle-Patricia Trie', nam

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