Preprint
Aug 2026
ShadowPath: Lookup-Private Credential Status Verification over Authenticated State
This work provides the first evaluation of Verkle trees for credential revocation and compares them with sparse Merkle trees to assess their applicability in real world applications, and shows that shorter authenticated paths do not necessarily yield cheaper zero-knowledge proofs.
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