Vitalik Signs Trust Minimization Manifesto, Emphasizing System Relying Only on Math and Consensus

On November 13th, Vitalik Buterin tweeted that he had signed "The Trustless Manifesto." This manifesto, authored by Yoav Weiss, Vitalik Buterin, and Marissa Posner, defines a "trustless" system as one in which any honest participant can join, validate, and take action without permission. The core requirements include self-sovereignty, verifiability, censorship resistance, the Walkaway test, accessibility, and incentive transparency. The content encompasses the "Three Laws": 1. No Key Secrets (protocol steps do not depend on any single party's private information); 2. No Irreplaceable Intermediaries (participants are interchangeable and open); 3. No Unverifiable Outputs (state changes can be reproduced from public data). Trustless design needs to be integrated from the very beginning to prevent convenience from leading to reliance on intermediaries (such as hosted RPC or centralized ordering). For Ethereum, the manifesto emphasizes maintaining user-initiated actions, verifiability, inclusivity, and code-driven logic to achieve trust neutrality. Trustlessness is not a post-functional aspect but a fundamental foundation; otherwise, efficiency, user experience, and scalability are merely ornaments on a fragile core.