Vitalik: Improving protocol comprehensibility is a key direction for trustlessness, and Ethereum needs to further simplify its design

According to Odaily, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that an important but long-underestimated form of "trustlessness" is enabling as many people as possible to truly understand the entire operation of the protocol from start to finish. If only a very small number of people possess complete understanding, the system still faces implicit risks of trust centralization.

Vitalik pointed out that Ethereum still has room for improvement in this regard. In the future, it will be necessary to enhance overall comprehensibility by simplifying protocol design and reducing system complexity. This will not only help expand the group of people who can participate in and audit the protocol, but will also strengthen the transparency, security, and long-term resilience of the Ethereum ecosystem.