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 ### ZKTrie Storage
 
-Another implement for storage trie, base on patricia merkle tree, has been induced. It is feasible to zk proving in the storage part. It is specified as a flag in gensis, set `config.scroll.useZktrie` to true for enabling it.
+Another implement for storage trie, base on patricia merkle tree, has been induced. It is feasible to zk proving in the storage part. It is specified as a flag in genesis, set `config.scroll.useZktrie` to true for enabling it.
 
 Notice that currently the snapshot would be disabled by the zktrie implement.