Trustless coordination is the achievement of agreement and joint action among parties who do not trust one another, enforced by protocol rules and cryptography rather than a trusted intermediary.
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- Trustless coordination uses verifiable rules and incentives so that participants can cooperate without relying on a central authority. Blockchains provide this through consensus mechanisms, cryptographic verification, and economic penalties such as slashing.
- The term describes systems where correct behaviour is enforced by the protocol itself, so a participant does not need to trust counterparties, only the verifiable rules and the integrity of the underlying network.