@vrypan.eth

Every system begins with good intentions. A hosted node here, a whitelisted relayer there. Each is harmless on its own — and together they become habit. Gateways become platforms. Platforms become landlords. Landlords decide who may enter and what they may do. The only defense is trustless design: systems whose correctness and fairness depend only on math and consensus, never on the goodwill of intermediaries. Trustlessness is not a feature to add after the fact. It is the thing itself. Without it, everything else — efficiency, UX, scalability — is decoration on a fragile core. Trustlessness is how credible neutrality is achieved. Without it, the system becomes one that depends on intermediaries.

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