Lei Yang

So it's a great validation.

I think it lets me sleep better at night.

And also, I think it kind of stress tested our downstream infrastructure partners because I think it highlighted some issues with the infrastructure.

I think some of them, I think the block explorers, they fail to keep up.

And we're now literally working on new RPC methods tailored to make their lives easier when they try to handle such low spikes in the future when it goes like really public.

And we're also working with our app teams, the Mafia, because they also run indexers.

They post process those transactions.

And

It also helped them identify the potential bottlenecks in their pipelines.

So I think it's, in general, I think it's extremely meaningful exercise for the entire ecosystem.

I'm just very happy.

Right, right.

So I think, yeah, we have been talking about a lot of our optimizations, for example, parallelization, JIT compilation, and the peer-to-peer network improvements.

But I think something we have not been talking a lot about is our new state try design.

We call it SOT, small authentication, large tries.

So think of it as a direct replacement of Ethereum's Merkle Patricia try or commonly known as the Merkle tree.

So the thing is with any EVM chain or with any chain that you want and hope to like settle onto Ethereum as a layer two, you need a tree that authenticates to the entirety of the chain state.

And here chain state is basically the list of

the list of account nonces, how much money each person have, how much ERC-20 tokens each person has, right?

So these states need to succinctly go into a single hash.