Ethereum Trustless Manifesto: Vitalik Buterin Signs Upholding Self-Sovereignty, Verifiability, and Censorship Resistance

Vitalik Buterin has signed The Trustless Manifesto, with Yoav Weiss and Marissa Posner, per COINOTAG News on November 13. The document defines a trustless system as one where honest participants may join, validate, and act without permission, rooted in self-sovereignty and verifiability.

Key provisions present the Three Laws: No Key Secrets (no steps rely on private data); No Irreplaceable Intermediaries (participants are substitutable); No Unverifiable Outputs (state changes reproduce from public data). A Walkaway test is highlighted as a practical safeguard.

Applied to Ethereum, the manifesto stresses user-initiated action, verifiability, and inclusive, code-driven logic to achieve trust neutrality. Trustlessness is presented as foundational, not a post-launch feature; without it, efficiency, UX, and scalability risk becoming brittle add-ons.

From a market perspective, the piece signals an architecture-first trajectory, urging builders to embed trustless design at inception, not as an afterthought. Emphasis on incentive transparency and accessibility aims to bolster crypto credibility.

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