Bruce|Nov 13, 2025 13:29
Let's sign the "De Trust Declaration" initiated by Vitalik 12 hours ago. No complicated interactions, no money, no need to worry about KYC, just go to the main network Tx on the blockchain, with a gas consumption of 0.05u.
By signing this oath, you are demonstrating a tendency to build and use a system that operates solely on mathematics and consensus, without relying on personal favors: fairness and correctness do not depend on who is trusted, but on whether the rules themselves are transparent and verifiable.
What you believe is not intermediaries, but the mechanism itself, no matter how chaotic the market is recently.
https://trustlessness.eth.limo/general/2025/11/11/the-trustless-manifesto.html
Open the declaration, scroll to the bottom, click sign, currently there are 11273 participating addresses.
No benefits, no airdrops, how about purely giving it a try?
What Vitalik, Yoav, and Marissa want to express in the "Declaration of De trust" is not complicated: the meaning of blockchain is never in words like "efficiency" and "experience", but in making people no longer rely on others.
When a system starts to have "whitelist relays", "hosted nodes", and "cloud service default options", centralization is not a conspiracy, but a habit.
Habits make people feel comfortable, but they also make people lose their freedom.
This is what they call 'trust drift', which is the drift of trust.
This drift does not occur suddenly, but gradually emerges in every harmless compromise.
They see 'trustification' as the only true defense line.
A true trust minimization system must meet the following requirements:
Each participant can verify the data themselves;
Any node can be replaced;
All states can be publicly reproduced;
Rules are written in the code, not in the contract API、 Or whose mouth.
But the cost of this' de trust 'is expensive. It sacrifices speed, abandons convenience, and forgets simplification, in exchange for a more fundamental guarantee: the system does not need to trust anyone, it is trustworthy on its own.
They even proposed three iron laws:
There is no key secret: the security of the system should not be tied to private information held by anyone. No one should hold the decisive key except for the user themselves;
There is no irreplaceable intermediary: any role that executes, forwards, or witnesses must be replaceable by others;
There are no unverifiable results: all state changes in the system should be publicly reproducible and verifiable.
In their view, today's Ethereum ecosystem is already deviating from this path.
The oligopoly of hosted RPC, centralized sorter, "training wheel" governance, and cross chain relay has gradually eroded the original ideal of decentralization into "specialization" and "cloudification".
Trust does not return all at once, but gradually seeps back through default configurations.
The more trust there is, the less freedom there is.
If a protocol cannot do without a trusted intermediary, then it is not neutral;
If a system can only be run by a few people with resources, then it is not open;
If efficiency comes from centralization, then it's not about simplicity, but rather yielding.
They advocate that the protocol designer is a 'guardian', not a 'gatekeeper'.
The real responsibility is not to blindly seek convenience, but to maintain the openness and self consistency that the system should have.
Passion cannot sustain eternity, but interests can always bring power together.
The only steady state is to make neutrality itself profitable.
Finally, they solemnly promise:
Do not build any irreplaceable infrastructure;
Do not misuse the term 'de licensing';
Not sacrificing autonomy for a smooth experience.
Success is not measured by the number of transactions per second, but by the amount of trust reduced per transaction.
The world doesn't need more efficient intermediaries, what the world needs is fewer reasons to trust them.
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