RT LI.FI (@lifiprotocol)What is the EIL?The EIL focuses on trustlessness. Wallet-centric, cross-chain orchestration where the user is always in control - without the intermediaries.But what does this mean for markets today, and how could markets look with wider adoption of the EIL?Read more: https://t.co/6IdKpWc3iK ...

An important, and perenially underrated, aspect of "trustlessness", "passing the walkaway test" and "self-sovereignty" is protocol simplicity.Even if a protocol is super decentralized with hundreds of thousands of nodes, and it has 49% byzantine fault tolerance, and nodes fully verify everything with quantum-safe peerdas and starks, if the protocol is an unwieldy mess of hundreds of thousands of lines of code and five forms of PhD-level cryptography, ultimately that protocol fails all three tests:* It's not ...

2026 is the year that we take back lost ground in terms of self-sovereignty and trustlessness.Some of what this practically means:Full nodes: thanks to ZK-EVM and BAL, it will once again become easier to locally run a node and verify the Ethereum chain on your own computer.Helios: actually verify the data you're receiving from RPCs instead of blindly trusting it.ORAM, PIR: ask for data from RPCs without revealing which data you're asking, so you can access dapps without your access patterns being sold off t ...

An important and underrated form of trustlessness is increasing the number of people who can actually understand the whole protocol from top to bottom.Ethereum needs to get better at this (by making the protocol simpler).dogecahedron (@dogecahedron):wow @VitalikButerin proposed to follow the lead of @__tinygrad__ and establish goal of max lines of code for ethereum spec ...

🚨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 ...

Ethereum Ecosystem & Technology - Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin released a "Trustlessness Manifesto," aiming for coordination without trusted intermediaries, emphasizing credible neutrality, self-custody, and verifiability [1] - The manifesto is stored on-chain in an ownerless, adminless contract, ensuring immutability [1] - The contract's only function, pledge(), records the caller's address and timestamp, emitting a Pledged event [1]

Layer 2 Solutions & Decentralization - Layer 2 solutions were initially conceived as centralized banks issuing Chaumian cash [1] - Computer science imposes limitations on Layer 1 capabilities, although some protocols claim improvements over Bitcoin [1] - More decentralized/trust-minimized Layer 2s exist now compared to initial visions [1] Trade-offs in Blockchain Design - Bitcoin sacrifices some privacy to enhance decentralization [1] - Turing-complete smart contracts (e.g., Ethereum) compromise decentralization for utility [1] - The industry continues to seek improved trade-offs between decentralization, privacy, and functionality [1]

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]