Ever thought about how blockchain stores data? Picture your brain as a massive filing cabinet holding every transaction record. Traditional approaches—MPT or Verkle trees—waste tons of space. Why? They leave empty drawers scattered everywhere when data gets distributed unevenly.

That's where SALT changes the game. Think of it as an intelligent cabinet that packs everything into compact, ordered lists. No wasted space. No gaps. Just efficient organization from top to bottom.

The real advantage? Storage density. SALT squishes data more effectively than conventional tree structures, meaning you get better performance without bloating the system. For blockchain networks handling millions of operations, that efficiency compounds fast.