There's a meme going around Twitter that Solana is fast because it doesn't merklize its state. Larry Engineer 🍡 @larry0x I think I'm having a Eureka moment in performant blockchain design. Three main points: 1. Do not Merklize chain state. This removes a huuuuge overhead in both execution and disk usage! 2. Use an SQL DB instead of a raw KV store. Instead of the chain implementing a query server, 174 9:38 PM • Dec 26, 2023 ... And to some extent, this is true. In the Sovereign SDK,...