Section III
MLE-DB
ZK-Native State Storage
State storage that the proving system reads natively, 2,929× fewer constraints than hash-tree designs, with key reads in nanoseconds on commodity hardware.
what it does
What MLE-DB Does
Where traditional chains force the prover through thousands of hashes per state access, MLE-DB hands it state directly, for 2,929× fewer constraints and faster, cheaper proofs.
mle db benchmarks
Performance
Cache-optimized operations measured in nanoseconds on commodity hardware.
5-7 ns
State Update
54-60 ns
Key Lookup
14 ns
State Read
66 ns
Non-Inclusion Proof
crash safety
Crash Safety
Pull the power mid-write and MLE-DB loses nothing and corrupts nothing, a guarantee carried by a machine-checked proof.