Ethereum Foundation: The Account Abstraction team, together with Vitalik Buterin, released the Trustless Manifesto and put it on-chain.

PANews reported on November 13th that the Ethereum Foundation announced on the X platform that the Account Abstraction team, together with Vitalik Buterin, released the "Trustless Manifesto" and placed it on-chain. Ethereum was not founded to improve financial efficiency, but rather to enable collaboration without trustworthy intermediaries. This manifesto clearly outlines a series of related values, including trust neutrality, self-custody, verifiability, and resistance to "convenient" centralized models.

The declaration is stored in its entirety as an on-chain contract and provides a single operation: `pledge()`. This contract has no owner or administrator, the text is uneditable, and all operations rely on the Ethereum network. When the `pledge()` operation is called, the system records the caller's address and the timestamp of the first commitment, and emits a public `Pledged(address, timestamp)` event. This operation only consumes gas fees and does not provide any form of incentive such as airdrops, credits, or early access. If a party makes a commitment, it indicates that they value the importance of user-authorized operations, do not want their protocol to rely on private servers and opaque relays, and are willing to bear the actual costs to maintain Ethereum's trustless nature.