Ethereum Prepares to Overhaul State Structure With Partitioned Binary Tree
Key Highlights: Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 8297 introduces the Partitioned Binary Tree (PBT), aiming to replace the network’s current hexary Merkle Patricia Trie with a unified, two-branch structure. During an initial shadowfork test on glamsterdam-pbt-1, Consensys’s Besu client successfully reconstructed its state database into the PBT format in roughly 2 hours and 41 minutes. Targeted ...