• Smaller proof sizes allow proofs to be passed over the network, which will unlock many new types of functionality in addition to stateless clients
• Lower hardware requirements to run a node, which improves decentralization
• New nodes can join the network right away with faster sync
• Potential scaling benefits in that it could allow for higher gas limits
• More compatible with a zk-EVM future

• Updated EIP-4762 implementations
• Updated EIP-2935 with a ring buffer of size 8192

Bringing Verkle into Ethereum involves many changes in the protocol:

• A new data structure to save the state of the network
• A new gas accounting model
• A strategy to migrate the existing state from the MPT to the VKT
• A new set of cryptography primitives
• New fields at the block level

• EIP-6800: Ethereum state using a unified verkle tree (draft)
• EIP-4762: Statelessness gas cost change (draft)
• EIP-7545: Verkle proof verification precompile (draft)
• EIP-2935: Save historical block hashes in state (draft)

Spec PRs:

• The Verge consensus spec (draft PR)

Transition:

• Migration Strategies

Archive and other related docs:

• Verkle serialization format in SSZ
• Vitalik’s draft EIP (old)

Overview

• Overview of tree structure
• Overview of cryptography used in Verkle
• Anatomy of a Verkle proof