Lisk

This blog post is part of the interoperability blog post series taking a closer look at various aspects of the Lisk interoperability solution. In this blog post, we introduce one of the cornerstones of Lisk-interoperability: The state model of an interoperable chain. To do so, we will first talk about sparse Merkle trees, introduced to the Lisk protocol in LIP 0039. Sparse Merkle trees are the fancy relatives of the regular Merkle trees. If you are not familiar with Merkle trees, we suggest you first read my previous blog post, as it will give you an introduction to many concepts we will discuss here. Next, I will present the state model, the state tree, and the new storage interface, focusing finally on what will change from a developer perspective when interoperability is implemented into the new SDK.