diff --git a/contrib/sdl_checkpoints.pl b/contrib/sdl_checkpoints.pl
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e140fb0ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/sdl_checkpoints.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+# Copyright (c) 2016-2022 The Hush developers
+# Distributed under the GPLv3 software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
+
+# This script is used to generate the data used by the silentdragonlite-cli checkpoints.rs file
+# https://git.hush.is/hush/silentdragonlite-cli/src/branch/master/lib/src/lightclient/checkpoints.rs#L24
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+my $hush    = "./src/hush-cli";
+my $gethash = "$hush getblockhash";
+my $gettree = "$hush getblockmerkletree";
+my $start   = shift || 300000;
+my $end     = shift || 840000;
+my $stride  = shift || 10000;
+
+my $blocks  = qx{$hush getblockcount};
+if($?) {
+    print "ERROR, is hushd running? exiting...\n";
+    exit 1;
+}
+
+if ($end > $blocks) {
+    print "The block $end is beyond how many blocks this node knows about, exiting...\n";
+    exit 1;
+}
+
+if ($start < 1) {
+    print "Invalid start block $start, exiting...\n";
+    exit 1;
+}
+
+my $block = $start;
+while (1) {
+    last if $block > $end;
+	my $blockhash = qx{$gethash $block};
+	my $merkle    = qx{$gettree $block};
+    chomp $merkle;
+    chomp $blockhash;
+    print qq{($block,"$blockhash",\n\t"$merkle"\n),\n};
+
+    $block += $stride;
+}
diff --git a/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp b/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
index 5f3a54d2f..90b8e7201 100644
--- a/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/blockchain.cpp
@@ -856,6 +856,39 @@ UniValue gettxoutsetinfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp, const CPubKey& mypk
     return ret;
 }
 
+UniValue getblockmerkletree(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp, const CPubKey& mypk)
+{
+    if (fHelp || params.size() != 1 )
+        throw runtime_error(
+            "getblockmerkletree height\n"
+            "\nGet full merkletree for a given Hush or HSC block height.\n"
+            "\nArguments:\n"
+            "1. height                      (int, required) block height\n"
+            "\nResult:\n"
+            "\"hex\"      (string) the  merkle tree hex encoded\n"
+            + HelpExampleCli("getblockmerkletree", "290000")
+            + HelpExampleRpc("getblockmerkletree", "290000")
+        );
+
+    CBlockIndex* phushblockindex;
+    uint256 blockRoot;
+    SaplingMerkleTree tree;
+
+    int nHeight = params[0].get_int();
+    if ( (nHeight < 1) || (nHeight > chainActive.LastTip()->GetHeight()) ) {
+        throw JSONRPCError(RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER, "Invalid Hush or HSC block height parameter");
+    }
+
+    phushblockindex = chainActive[nHeight];
+    blockRoot       = phushblockindex->hashFinalSaplingRoot;
+    if( pcoinsTip->GetSaplingAnchorAt(blockRoot, tree) ) {
+        CDataStream ss(SER_NETWORK, PROTOCOL_VERSION);
+        ss << tree;
+        return HexStr(ss.begin(), ss.end());
+    } else {
+        throw JSONRPCError(RPC_INVALID_PARAMETER, "Could not find merkletree");
+    }
+}
 
 UniValue kvsearch(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp, const CPubKey& mypk)
 {
@@ -1877,6 +1910,7 @@ static const CRPCCommand commands[] =
     { "blockchain",         "getblockcount",          &getblockcount,          true  },
     { "blockchain",         "getblock",               &getblock,               true  },
     { "blockchain",         "getblockhash",           &getblockhash,           true  },
+    { "blockchain",         "getblockmerkletree",     &getblockmerkletree,     true  },
     { "blockchain",         "getblockheader",         &getblockheader,         true  },
     { "blockchain",         "getchaintips",           &getchaintips,           true  },
     { "blockchain",         "getchaintxstats",        &getchaintxstats,        true  },
diff --git a/src/rpc/client.cpp b/src/rpc/client.cpp
index 916273043..e427ec3ff 100644
--- a/src/rpc/client.cpp
+++ b/src/rpc/client.cpp
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ static const CRPCConvertParam vRPCConvertParams[] =
     { "getbalance", 1 },
     { "getbalance", 2 },
     { "getblockhash", 0 },
+    { "getblockmerkletree", 0 },
     { "move", 2 },
     { "move", 3 },
     { "sendfrom", 2 },