Vitalik Buterin explains that partially stateless nodes rely on stateless verification or zkEVM to validate blocks while storing minimal data

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According to Buterin, these nodes verify blocks and the entire chain without storing all the data by utilizing stateless verification or zkEVM. They will be programmed to store a selected subset of data instead of a full set, and are still able to perform requests pertaining to data in the selected portion.