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 **4.2 Light Enables ZK-Applications**
 
-Light Protocol is a shared bridge to merklelized, zk-friendly state. We believe that as more state becomes compressed via ZK Compression, Light Protocol will provide ZK-based applications and protocols with the option to bootstrap and scale on Solana across globally shared compressed state.
+Light Protocol is a shared bridge to merkleized, zk-friendly state. We believe that as more state becomes compressed via ZK Compression, Light Protocol will provide ZK-based applications and protocols with the option to bootstrap and scale on Solana across globally shared compressed state.
 
 We believe the design space for ZK-based applications is now wide open and will continue to expand. Some exciting technologies include: