diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1b6b5e3..a8eefb5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1,12 @@
 # ipld-eth-statedb
+
+Implementation of the geth [vm.StateDB](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/master/core/vm/interface.go#L28) on top of
+[ipld-eth-db](https://github.com/cerc-io/ipld-eth-db), to allow us to plug into existing EVM functionality. Analogous to
+[ipfs-ethdb](https://github.com/cerc-io/ipfs-ethdb) but at one database abstraction level higher. This allows us to
+bypass the trie-traversal access pattern normally used by the EVM (and which ipfs-ethdb allows us to replicate ontop of our
+Postgres IPLD blockstore in the "public.blocks" table) and access state and storage directly in the "state_cids" and
+"storage_cids" tables.
+
+
+Note: "IPFS" is chosen in the name of "ipfs-ethdb" as it can function through an IPFS BlockService abstraction or directly ontop of an IPLD blockstore, whereas this repository
+is very tightly coupled to the schema in ipld-eth-db.
diff --git a/state_object.go b/state_object.go
index 086d75a..a28c8bc 100644
--- a/state_object.go
+++ b/state_object.go
@@ -6,11 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"math/big"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/metrics"
-
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/common"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/core/types"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/crypto"
+	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/metrics"
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rlp"
 )
 
@@ -247,7 +246,7 @@ func (s *stateObject) setBalance(amount *big.Int) {
 // Attribute accessors
 //
 
-// Returns the address of the contract/account
+// Address returns the address of the contract/account
 func (s *stateObject) Address() common.Address {
 	return s.address
 }