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SSZ and Merkleization wiki pages #237

Closed thogiti closed 2 months ago

thogiti commented 2 months ago

Wiki PR Checklist

thogiti commented 2 months ago

Thanks for the PR! It looks almost done? Just 2 things I would elaborate on more: CL uses merkle roots for everything instead of just hashes and enables light clients to use easy proofs. The document should also explain merklization, maybe pointing to Proto's resources https://github.com/protolambda/eth2-docs#ssz-hash-tree-root-and-merkleization And one more section I would add is a comparison with RLP - what are the main benefits, features over RLP and hint that there is an effort to move everything to ssz.

Thank you @taxmeifyoucan I added a section for SSZ VS RLP comparison and briefly explained the benefits of SSZ over RLP and the intent to completely adopt SSZ.

I am now working on the SSZ merkleization. This will complete this wiki page.

thogiti commented 2 months ago

I am separating the merkleization content into a separate page. The SSZ page is already large.