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Description Light client for NEAR is relatively cheap in verifying, outside of set of ed25519 signatures of block producers. Compressing the light block verification to just verifying of a single proof would provide a useful tool to sync blocks faster and use it in the Rainbow bridge.

Context NEAR's light client specification is described here: https://nomicon.io/ChainSpec/LightClient.html