MPT (Merkle Patricia Trie)
Trie structure used by Ethereum to store accounts and contract state with Merkle proofs.
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Archives: Glossary
Archives: Glossary
Merkle Proof
Set of sibling hashes proving an element belongs to a Merkle tree with a known root.
Merkle Root
Root hash of a Merkle tree; commits to all underlying data in a block or distribution list.
MEV Protection
Techniques like private mempools, transaction bundles, and orderflow auctions to reduce harmful MEV.
MEV Relay
Service that brokers blocks between builders and proposers in PBS architectures.
Miner Extractable Value (Legacy Term)
Original term for MEV in PoW systems; replaced by Maximal Extractable Value after PoS.
MEV (Maximal Extractable Value)
Value extracted by reordering, including, or censoring transactions during block production.
Mempool
Set of pending transactions waiting to be included in a block; target of MEV strategies.
Mainnet
The live production network where real value transfers occur, as opposed to testnets.
Instruction Window
Portion of context reserved for system or task instructions in prompt engineering.
Inference Cache (KV Cache)
Stored key/value attention states used to accelerate autoregressive generation.
