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Nov 13, 2025
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Ethereum Foundation Publishes Trustless Manifesto Onchain

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, introduced the "Trustless Manifesto" to reinforce Ethereum's core values of decentralization and censorship resistance.

Key Points of the Trustless Manifesto

  • The manifesto was co-authored by Buterin, Yoav Weiss, and Marissa Posner from the Ethereum Foundation.
  • Aims to eliminate intermediaries and checkpoints that compromise trustlessness in pursuit of faster adoption.
  • Emphasizes values like credible neutrality, self-custody, verifiability, and resistance to centralization.
  • The manifesto insists that trustlessness is a fundamental aspect, not an afterthought.

Ethereum Foundation's Technical Developments

  • The Ethereum Foundation recently shut down the Holešky testnet following the Fusaka upgrade testing.
  • PeerDAS, a feature for reducing validator bandwidth and enhancing Layer-2 scalability, was introduced.
  • The shutdown was due to validator inactivity leaks and extended exit queues on the network.