diff --git a/core/state/trie_prefetcher.go b/core/state/trie_prefetcher.go
index 0e44f00a03..29dfdf04fa 100644
--- a/core/state/trie_prefetcher.go
+++ b/core/state/trie_prefetcher.go
@@ -330,7 +330,8 @@ func (sf *subfetcher) terminate(async bool) {
 
 // openTrie resolves the target trie from database for prefetching.
 func (sf *subfetcher) openTrie() error {
-	// Open the verkle tree if the sub-fetcher is in verkle mode
+	// Open the verkle tree if the sub-fetcher is in verkle mode. Note, there is
+	// only a single fetcher for verkle.
 	if sf.db.TrieDB().IsVerkle() {
 		tr, err := sf.db.OpenTrie(sf.state)
 		if err != nil {