🚨JUST IN: ETHEREUM FOUNDATION AND VITALIK BUTERIN PUBLISH THE “TRUSTLESSNESS MANIFESTO,” REINFORCING ETHEREUM’S MISSION OF COORDINATION WITHOUT TRUSTED INTERMEDIARIES ...

⚡️ TODAY: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin signs "Trustless Manifesto" urging builders to resist intermediary dependence."Trustlessness is the foundation. Everything else is construction on top of it." https://t.co/9J0XHTARds ...

The Ethereum Foundation said on X that the Account Abstraction team and Vitalik Buterin released a "Trustlessness Manifesto," reaffirming Ethereum's goal of enabling coordination without trusted intermediaries—not merely improving financial efficiency—and emphasizing credible neutrality, self-custody, and verifiability. The text is stored on-chain in an ownerless, adminless contract; it is immutable, and the only function is pledge(), which records the caller's address and first timestamp and emits a Pledge ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Without disagreeing with the ideals of decentralization-for-all and trustlessness in a perfect world, one must also deal with computer science reality. Back in the day Hal and I envisioned layer 2s as centralized banks issuing Chaumian cash (which is a centralized protocol). That was the best we could think of for layer 2s back then (i.e. between 1998 and Satoshi). Computer science seems to impose major limitations for what we can do at layer 1, although there are some protocols t ...

Core Principle - Trustlessness eliminates the need for permissions from intermediaries [1] - Cryptographic rules offer reliability compared to breakable promises [1] Implications - Users are not dependent on relays or admin key holders [1] - Decisions should be based on cryptographic rules, not subjective feelings [1]