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+## Adding Checkpoints
+
+Adding checkpoints make SDL sync much faster, especially for brand new wallets. If there are no recent checkpoints,
+when a user makes a new wallet, it will sync from a block far in the past, which wastes time, bandwidth and CPU resources. To add a checkpoint ...
+
 ## Release process
 
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