The Ethereum Foundation, in collaboration with Vitalik Buterin, has released the 'Trustless Manifesto', reaffirming Ethereum's core mission of enabling user collaboration without the need for trusted intermediaries. The manifesto emphasizes principles of credible neutrality, self-custody, and verifiability, rather than focusing on financial efficiency. It is permanently stored on-chain in a contract with no owner or administrator, and its text is immutable. The contract allows only the 'pledge()' operation, which records the caller's address and timestamp, triggering a public 'Pledged (address, timestamp)' event.