Merkle Mountain Ranges for Performant Data Authentication

[patrick-ogrady]

Decentralized systems require the ability to prove authenticity of data received from potentially untrustworthy sources. The most well known data structure for this task is the Merkle tree, which allows one to efficiently prove inclusion of an element within a list without having to obtain the entire list from a trusted source.

Read more at:

• https://x.com/roberto_bayardo/status/1890100917560861036
• https://commonware.xyz/blogs/mmr.html