Dispatches of a Trust Architect: Sanctuary and Exodus

On March 3, Vitalik Buterin posted a manifesto on X1. It introduced a new term: sanctuary technologies. Ten days later, the Ethereum Foundation made it official with a 38-page mandate document, which they described as “part constitution, part manifesto.”2 I noted this briefly in my recent Dispatch on Technology Paternalism, but the new mandate deserves its own treatment. When Vitalik talks about…