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        <p>Decentralized systems require the ability to prove authenticity of data received from potentially untrustworthy sources. The most well known data structure for this task is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree">Merkle tree</a>, which allows one to efficiently prove inclusion of an element within a list without having to obtain the entire list from a trusted source.</p>
        <p>A Merkle tree is a <a href="https://docs.rs/commonware-storag