Vitalik signs the "Trustless Manifesto," emphasizing that systems should rely solely on mathematics and consensus.

ChainCatcher reported that Vitalik Buterin tweeted that he has signed "The Trustless Manifesto." The manifesto, authored by Yoav Weiss, Vitalik Buterin, and Marissa Posner, defines a "trustless" system as one in which any honest participant can join, verify, and act without permission. The core requirements include self-sovereignty, verifiability, censorship resistance, the Walkaway test, accessibility, and incentive transparency.

The content includes "Three Laws": 1. No critical secrets (protocol steps do not rely on private information of a single actor); 2. No indispensable intermediaries (participants are replaceable and open); 3. No unverifiable outcomes (state changes can be reproduced from public data). Trustless design must be embedded from the very beginning to avoid convenience leading to reliance on intermediaries (such as custodial RPC or centralized sequencing). For Ethereum, the manifesto emphasizes maintaining user-initiated actions, verifiability, inclusivity, and code-driven logic to achieve credible neutrality. Trustlessness is not a feature added later, but a foundation; otherwise, efficiency, user experience, and scalability are merely decorations on a fragile core.