[Vitalik Signs 'The Trustless Manifesto,' Emphasizing Systems That Rely Only on Math and Consensus] BlockBeats News, November 13: Vitalik Buterin tweeted that he has signed 'The Trustless Manifesto.' The manifesto, co-authored by Yoav Weiss, Vitalik Buterin, and Marissa Posner, defines 'trustless' systems as those where any honest participant can join, verify, and act without permission. Core requirements include self-sovereignty, verifiability, censorship resistance, the Walkaway Test, accessibility, and incentive transparency. The content includes the 'Three Laws': 1. No critical secrets (protocol steps do not rely on private information from a single actor); 2. No indispensable intermediaries (participants are replaceable and open); 3. No unverifiable outcomes (state changes can be reproduced from public data). Trustless design must be embedded from the start to avoid reliance on intermediaries for convenience (e.g., custodial RPCs or centralized sequencing). For Ethereum, the manifesto emphasizes maintaining user-initiated actions, verifiability, inclusivity, and code-driven logic to achieve credible neutrality. Trustlessness is not an afterthought but a foundation; otherwise, efficiency, user experience, and scalability are merely decorations on a fragile core.