Vitalik Signs <i>Trust Minimization Manifesto</i>, Emphasizing System Relying Only on Math and Consensus
BlockBeats News, November 13th, Vitalik Buterin tweeted that he has signed "The Trustless Manifesto." The manifesto, written by Yoav Weiss, Vitalik Buterin, and Marissa Posner, defines a "trustless" system as a system where any honest participant can join, validate, and act without permission, with core requirements including self-sovereignty, verifiability, censorship resistance, Walkaway test, accessibility, and incentive transparency.
The content includes the "Three Laws":
1. No Key Secrets (protocol steps do not rely on any one party's private information);
2. No Irreplaceable Intermediaries (participants are substitutable and open);
3. No Unverifiable Outputs (state changes can be reproduced from public data).
Trustless design needs to be embedded from the outset to avoid convenience leading to reliance on intermediaries (such as hosted RPC or centralized ordering). For Ethereum, the manifesto emphasizes maintaining user-initiated action, verifiability, inclusivity, and code-driven logic to achieve trust neutrality. Trustlessness is not a post-functional aspect but a foundation; otherwise, efficiency, user experience, and scalability are merely decorations on a fragile core.
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