Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin publish the “Trustless Manifesto” on-chain

With an announcement on X, the Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin publish on-chain the “Trustless Manifesto“.

On-chain publication of the “Trustless Manifesto”: an indelible mark on Ethereum

The Ethereum Foundation has announced that its Account Abstraction team, along with Vitalik Buterin, has released the “Trustless Manifesto”. Vitalik Buterin’s manifesto reaffirms the commitment to an open and censorship-resistant infrastructure, based on clear principles that can be verified by the community.

Furthermore, the text prioritizes credible neutrality, self-custody, and verifiability over purely financial efficiency. This movement based on trustlessness aims to consolidate the technical and social legitimacy of the network, shifting the focus from performance for its own sake to the integrity of the protocol.

The on-chain contract address and the Pledge Signature

The document is permanently etched on-chain within an ownerless and admin-free contract, thus immutable. However, the contract exposes only one function: pledge(), which records the address of the participant (signature) and the timestamp, emitting the event Pledged(address, timestamp).

Trustless Manifesto: the Ethereum vision

The initiative connects the vision of the Trustless Manifesto with the technical direction of Account Abstraction: making self-custody more accessible, programmable, and verifiable. In particular, the emphasis on credible neutrality strengthens the coherence between wallet design and protocol principles.

The choice of a contract without an owner or admin emphasizes the renunciation of centralized control points. Additionally, the on-chain registration of address and timestamp via pledge() provides a public and auditable tracking of the community’s adherence to the principles.

The team invites users to sign the on-chain manifesto contract, reminding them that there is no reward, badge, or airdrop on the horizon, but only a public and permanent mark of sharing the decentralized ideology underlying Ethereum.

Just scroll to the bottom of the manifesto document to find the official and verified click for signing. The cost is truly minimal, amounting only to the gas fee, currently around $0.36.

The on-chain publication of the manifesto represents a formal commitment towards intermediary-free coordination, supported by transparent and network-verifiable rules.