On October 23, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik published the latest article (Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge), in which he stated that one of the most powerful features of blockchain is that anyone can run a node on their own computer and verify whether the chain is correct. Stakeholders who do not belong to such conspiracy groups will automatically gather and continue to build a chain that continues to follow the old rules, while fully verified users will follow that chain. However, running a fully verified node needs to be practically feasible for enough people. Today, running a node on consumer laptops is possible, but it is quite difficult. The Verge aims to change that, making fully verified chains so economically feasible that every mobile wallet, browser wallet, and even smartwatches do this by default. Initially, 'Verge' referred to the idea of moving Ethereum's state storage to Verkle trees - Verkle trees are a tree structure that allows for more compact proofs, enabling stateless verification of Ethereum blocks. But over the past year, Verge has become more open, and there are multiple possibilities. The Verge: Key Goals · Stateless client: fully verified clients and staking nodes do not require more than a few GB of storage space · (Long term) fully verifying the chain on smartwatches (consensus and execution). Download some data, verify SNARK, and that's it.