As Ethereum progresses toward Verkle Trees integration, Linea is actively developing its technical roadmap to ensure seamless compatibility. Verkle Trees, as next-generation data structures replacing Merkle Trees, will significantly optimize state verification through more efficient proof mechanisms, profoundly impacting Linea's proof generation and data compression capabilities.
The Linea team has initiated early-stage adaptation work focused on state proof generation efficiency and on-chain verification costs. Verkle Trees reduce proof size to less than one-tenth of traditional Merkle Proofs through vector commitment technology, directly decreasing Gas costs for proof submission to mainnet while accelerating cross-chain state synchronization.
Technically, Linea plans a phased compatibility upgrade: first optimizing proof generation algorithms to support Verkle Proof construction, then adjusting state tree structures for seamless interoperability with Ethereum mainnet. This process must maintain compatibility with existing smart contracts, preventing large-scale ecosystem migration due to underlying data structure changes.
Long-term, Verkle Trees integration will strengthen Linea's advantages in low fees and high throughput. Smaller proof volumes enable more transactions per batch, further enhancing network scalability. Additionally, Verkle Trees' support for stateless clients will lay foundation for Linea's light node development, improving decentralization.
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