PROTOCOL SIMPLICITY IS THE FOUNDATION OF TRUSTLESSNESS

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

True trustlessness, self-sovereignty, and the “walkaway test” depend less on decentralization metrics and more on protocol simplicity. Excessive complexity forces users to trust experts, weakens long-term resilience, and increases security risk. Ethereum should adopt explicit “simplification” and “garbage collection” mechanisms to reduce code size, minimize cryptographic dependencies, strengthen invariants, and demote complex legacy features to smart contracts so Ethereum can evolve into a durable, century-scale decentralized system.