Ethereum Foundation: Account Abstraction Team Releases "Trustless Declaration" with Vitalik and Places It On-Chain

The Ethereum Foundation posted on the X platform that the account abstraction team, together with Vitalik Buterin, has released the "Trustless Manifesto" and placed it on-chain. The original intention of Ethereum was not to enhance financial efficiency, but to enable people to collaborate without the need for trusted intermediaries. This manifesto clearly articulates a series of related values, including trustworthy neutrality, self-custody, verifiability, and a resistance to "convenient" centralized models.

The manifesto is fully stored on-chain in the form of a smart contract and provides a single operation: pledge(). This contract has no owner, no administrator, and the text content is uneditable, with all operations relying on the Ethereum network. When the pledge() operation is called, the system will record the caller's address and the timestamp of the first pledge, and emit a public Pledged(address, timestamp) event. This operation only consumes gas fees and does not provide any form of incentives such as airdrops, points, or early access. If relevant parties make a pledge, it indicates their concern for the importance of user self-authorized operations, their desire for their protocols not to rely on private servers and opaque relayers, and their willingness to bear the actual costs to maintain Ethereum's trustless characteristics.