Thank you for the links, I will try and edit the paper in the upcoming days to include Vitalik's mentioning. Jim McDonald's article is also wonderful, we refer

Thank you for the links, I will try and edit the paper in the upcoming days to include Vitalik's mentioning. Jim McDonald's article is also wonderful, we referenced it multiple times and experimented quite a lot with his Merkle tree repo: https://github.com/wealdtech/go-merkletree https://github.com/wealdtech/go-merkletree