Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has written and signed a new "Trustless Manifesto" aimed at upholding the core values of decentralization and censorship resistance, and encouraging developers to avoid increasing intermediaries and checkpoints for the sake of adoption.
The Trustless Manifesto was also authored by Ethereum Foundation researchers Yoav Weiss and Marissa Posner, who pointed out that crypto platforms sacrificed trustlessness from the very beginning when they integrated hosted nodes or centralized relayers—though seemingly harmless, this can become a habit, making the protocol increasingly permissioned with each added checkpoint.
"Trustlessness is not an afterthought feature. It is core to the system," stated members of the Ethereum Foundation in the manifesto released on Wednesday. "Without it, everything else—efficiency, user experience, scalability—is just decoration on a fragile core."
While the manifesto does not target any specific individuals or companies, some Ethereum Layer 2 networks have been criticized for sacrificing decentralization to focus on scalability to accelerate adoption.
"We measure success not by transactions per second, but by the amount of trust reduced per transaction," Buterin, Posner, and Weiss stated.
The reliance on intermediaries was evident during last month's Amazon Web Services outage. Coinbase's Base chain lost about 25% of its throughput when its AWS-hosted sequencer went offline, while Arbitrum and Optimism demonstrated greater resilience, maintaining full operation in a multi-cloud setup.
Several other contributors in the Ethereum ecosystem also signed the manifesto, including Ethereum Foundation member Tom Teman and pseudonymous crypto researcher hitas.base.eth.
This Trustless Manifesto is not Buterin's first initiative of this kind. In December 2023, he proposed to "bring Ethereum back to its cyberpunk roots," advocating for the promotion of cryptographic solutions that enhance privacy, such as zero-knowledge proofs and account abstraction.
Recently, Ethereum has been experiencing a surge in institutional adoption, from the launch of the spot Ether ETF in July 2023 to an increasing number of publicly traded companies purchasing the crypto asset to strengthen their balance sheets, making this trend more apparent.
However, the Ethereum Foundation and core development team remain focused on advancing the technical roadmap, committed to achieving maximum decentralization, autonomy, and censorship resistance for the network.
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Original: “Vitalik Buterin Supports Decentralization in the Trustless Manifesto”
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