Data structures and encoding
The Electroneum Smart Chain creates, stores and transfers large volumes of data. This data must get formatted in standardised and memory-efficient ways to allow anyone to run a node on relatively modest consumer-grade hardware. To achieve this, several specific data structures are used on the Electroneum Smart Chain stack.
Prerequisites
You should understand the fundamentals of Electroneum and client software. Familiarity with the networking layer and the Ethereum whitepaper is recommended.
Data structures
Patricia merkle tries
Patricia Merkle Tries are structures that encode key-value pairs into a deterministic and cryptographically authenticated trie. These are used extensively across the Electroneum Smart Chain.
Recursive Length Prefix
Recursive Length Prefix (RLP) is a serialisation method used extensively across the Electroneum Smart Chain.
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