Ethereum must become simpler to achieve true trustlessness: Buterin

Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum needs to boost the number of people who can understand the entire blockchain, and it can “get better at this by making the protocol simpler.”

The Ethereum blockchain needs to better explain its features to users in order to achieve true trustlessness, a challenge common across blockchain protocols, says its co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

Trustlessness would see a protocol work without the oversight of developers, as it enforces rules automatically with code. However, if a protocol is so complex that only a small group can work on it, then in practice, others still have to trust that group. 

Ethereum is often described as trustless because transactions and smart contracts are enforced by open-source code and a decentralized network of validators. However, Buterin said in an X post on Wednesday that the network still needs to improve user understanding.

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