Replicated state structure

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Each node of the Internet Computer maintains a state. The state includes the data related to canisters, the messages processed by the node, responses generated after processing the messages, etc. A portion of the state is individual to each node (Eg: messages received in the peer-to-peer layer). A portion of the state is identical for all the honest nodes in the subnet. This portion of the state is called replicated state of the subnet. In this article, we describe the structure of the replicated state stored on the Internet Computer.