Category: Ethereum
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The merge is coming!
The most awaited, most discussed, most anticipated “the merge” is finally happening in a few days. This upgrade is regarded as the most significant upgrade in the history of Ethereum. But, exactly what is going to happen? What entails after the merge? Let’s understand exactly what is all this fuss about, why this merge is…
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EIP 2535: Diamond standard explained – Part 2: What are diamonds and how they work
In part 1 of this series, we tried to understand why the EIP-2535: Diamond standard is required. In short, this standard allows us to write “transparently” upgradable, flexible, modular and logically easy to maintain smart contracts. In this part, let’s understand exactly how diamonds enable all of this. What are diamonds? So following diagram represents…
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EIP 2535: Diamond standard explained – Part 1: Why diamonds?
In this 4 part series, let’s dive deep into EIP-2535 Diamond standard and understand why diamonds, what are diamonds and how to use diamonds! One of the main USPs for smart contracts is that they are immutable. Being immutable has its own advantages by removing trust from the system. But from a developer’s point of…
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Merkle trees explained – Part 3: Merkle verification in Solidity and Javascript
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we have explored what are merkle trees, definition, concept and how merkle trees can be used to check the proof of inclusion. In this part, let’s checkout how we can perform merkle verification in smart contracts and in javascript. Merkle Verification in Smart contracts First thing…
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Merkle trees explained – Part 2: How verification of presence works
In part 1 of this article, we tried to understand what merkle trees are and the concept behind. We know that merkle trees help us in verifying whether a particular data point is the part of the tree ( merkle root ) or not. In this part, let’s go through exactly how this process of…
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Merkle trees explained – Part 1: What are merkle trees?
If you are a dev / techie and if you have a high level understanding of blockchains, you surely have heard this buzzword: “Merkle trees”. Wikipedia says: In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every “leaf” (node) is labelled with the cryptographic hash of a data block,…