Ethereum launches 'Trustlessness manifesto': affirming the vision of trustlessness

The Ethereum Foundation announced on X that the Account Abstraction team along with Vitalik Buterin has introduced the “Trustlessness Manifesto.” This document re-emphasizes the core goal of Ethereum: to build a system that allows people to coordinate and interact without the need for a trusted intermediary. The manifesto not only focuses on financial efficiency but also upholds deeper values such as reliable neutrality, self-custody of assets, and verifiable transparency.

To embody these principles, the manifesto is stored directly on the blockchain in an ownerless and administratorless contract. The contract is immutable, no one can edit or control it. It has only one function, pledge(), which records the address of the pledger, the time of signing, and emits the events Pledged(address, timestamp) on the chain.